Is there a utility that will go through my iTunes library and delete duplicate files? My "Music" folder is 35GB but iTunes claims to only have 15GB, so I must have duplicated the entire library at some point (and then probably deleted songs w/o deleting the media).
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Jessica - Mar 30, 2009 4:04:21 am PDT #9554 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
le nubian - Mar 30, 2009 4:12:28 am PDT #9555 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
do you want dups deleted in Itunes or on your hard drive?
I happen to like dupeguru, but it is not free. It works well at finding duplicates.
Jessica - Mar 30, 2009 4:16:39 am PDT #9556 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
do you want dups deleted in Itunes or on your hard drive?
On the hard drive. My laptop's hard drive is 50GB smaller than the old G5 so I need to delete whatever I can before I migrate.
le nubian - Mar 30, 2009 5:00:14 am PDT #9557 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yes, try dupeguru.
Jessica - Mar 30, 2009 5:03:28 am PDT #9558 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Thanks.
tommyrot - Mar 30, 2009 5:15:02 am PDT #9559 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If you're using a Mac, there are AppleScripts that'll do that. (lemme know if you want the ULR)
le nubian - Mar 30, 2009 5:21:53 am PDT #9560 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I think the Applescript is for within Itunes - not the hard drive.
tommyrot - Mar 30, 2009 5:27:59 am PDT #9561 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh duh. I reread Jessica's post - yeah, if iTunes doesn't know about the dupes then the script won't work.
Need more coffee....
tommyrot - Mar 30, 2009 5:45:48 am PDT #9562 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ooh - here's an AppleScript that might work:
List Music Folder Files Not Added v2.0
This script recursively searches user-selected folders for files not added to iTunes and creates a text file listing their file paths. Optionally, this text file can be saved as a M3U file and imported by iTunes to add the found files. Requires Mac OS 10.4 or better.
I guess you could use the text file listing to create a bunch of delete commands.
§ ita § - Mar 30, 2009 4:46:59 pm PDT #9563 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have a really annoying problem (Finder's crashing) that apparently can only be fixed by an Archive and Install.
For which you need to *not* have the upgrade discs, but need the originals. Needless to whine, I only have the upgrades.
Is it unseemly to ask to borrow the Tiger discs for this fix?