On my startup disk I had my music folder in Macintosh HD:Users:Shared:Music:iTunes:iTunes Music I did this so all users on the mac could access the music without making duplicates. Now I got a extra storage drive (160gb) and to free up some space on the startup disk I was going to store my music files on the new storage drive. But I want the same setup I had, where everyone on the mac could access the same file for the same song, so no duplicates would occur.
I first started on my user account and Consolidated my library to the new location stated above. Worked great, all my files are now in the new location (also changed the import location to the same place). Since all of the other users are still accessing their music on the old location I didn't clean it up until the other users could access the new location. I next moved to the Guest account so if I messed anything up It wouldn't affect very many people, and the library isn't too big.
In the Guest account I first changed the importing location to the new one, and then went forth and Consolidated the Guest library to the new location. In my mind I thought that it would ignore the files that were already in there that had the same file name, and add the ones that MY account didn't add during the last Consolidate. Or at least Overwrite the files that were already there since if its the same file name my other account should still read it. But instead it made a duplicate of every file it had to and added a "1" to the file name.
Just another girl.mp3
Just another girl 1.mp3
Now I have 1400 songs that are duplicates like above. I want the all users to access the same file. How can I fix this for future users, as I could probably figure out a spotlight filter so I can delete these duplicates.
That was long,
Thanks for taking the time.
EDIT: I was just thinking, I could make a script that fetches all iTunes songs (the ones listed in itunes browser) and make if delete " 1" from the end of every filename that has it. And do that in the "alias" or itunes data file. But too bad I don't know how to make scripts.
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