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I recently got a blackbook (an upgrade from my powerbook g4) and when I dragged all my music across firewire onto the blackbook it integrated into itunes fine, but i discovered today that in my itunes folders in finder, there are doubles. Meaning there's Album X, open that and you see song Sony Y.mp3 and Song Y 1.mp3. Now, not ALL of these folders have them, but a lot of them seem to. Is there an easy way to get rid of these? Maybe an automator script?
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Do they show up twice in iTunes? If so, you're in luck. You can choose the 'show duplicates' command from the View menu and then delete all the duplicate copies.
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Did you check out the "Show Duplicates" under the View menu in iTunes? Might work OK if you don't have a monster huge library...
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Opps, monkeybrain and I were on the same page!
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I have tried the 'show duplicates' option in itunes, but they doubles don't show up in itunes, only in the finder folders. it wouldn't matter that much anyway because my library is close to 62 GB (without doubles) so manually deleting every double would take way too long.
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just for kicks, is your iTunes library linked to the originals or the copies? (control-click on a track in iTunes and select "show in finder").
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You could backup your iTunes library file, add _all_ the songs on your disk to iTunes, and then use the show duplicates command recommended above to get rid of the dups. Then you could restore the old iTunes library file, and you'd be set.
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mfbernstein's method could work, alternatively, if you wanted to try this in the Finder you could use a smart folder and set the criteria to find these extra files. You could search for files with that extra '1', and maybe you could set a date created criteria since I suspect they were all created at around the same time (maybe do a few Get Infos to see if this is correct).
I guess you could also do this with Automator and add a move to trash command too, but I'd want to check I had all the right files manually before deleting the.
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