Deleting entire duplicate Library
I restored my Library from a Hard Disk crash. It copied each song- 1200 entries- twice. How do I delete all duplicates without deleting "one by one"? Thanks.
You can find a duplicate deleting script here:
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/
Or if you prefer a comercial option something like iTsync
http://www.itsyncsoftware.com/itsync.htm
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If I've downloaded my music to an itunes library from an external hard drive and I have several duplicate songs, is there an easy way to delete the duplicate songs? Or, do I have to go through my entire library song by song to delete duplicates?
In iTunes, File>Display Duplicates
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My entire iTunes library has been duplicated. Is there any command that will let me delete all duplicates at once, rather than each individual song?
In particular:
Once you have used the Show Exact Duplicates feature* you can set about deleting all but one copy of each duplicate file. If all the duplicates have recently been added into your library then you could sort the list on the date added column, select a range of tracks with SHIFT-click and delete all the recent entries.
* On a Mac hold down Option, then click File > Show Exact Duplicates.
You could also check out Doug's Scripts for useful tools.
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I am trying to delete duplicate photos fron my events in i-photo but it deltes the photo entirely from all events. How do I keep them in the original events and delte the duplicates without sending them all to the trash?
Are you referring to Events or Albums? A photo can exist in one Event only. However, it can be in multiple albums, books, etc., which uses pointers to the original photo in the Event. In those cases if you delete the photo from the Event all occurrences of it will be deleted from the library.
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PLEASE HELP!!! Somehow my entire iTunes library got deleted, and I cannot sync all my music that I put on from cd's (which I no longer have). All the purchased music has been synced, but nothing else! All my other devices are synced with iCloud and lost the material as well ... I am so frustrated, because the nano has not been working properly, and I am afraid of losing it forever, and of course the cd's I backed everything with are MIA!!!! GRRR! Please HELP!!!
Thank you so much!I can't tell from your post what you have and what you don't have. Are you saying the files are no longer on your computer, no longer on your iPod, or both?
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I recently purchased a song from itunes and when the song downloaded, it deleted/removed my entire song library. Only leaving the one song.
My photos and aps are still there, but no songs. Anyone ever encounter this and how do you fix it? I don't want to loose my songs as some are not in MY itunes library. HelpIf the songs are still on your ipod, make sure autosync is disabled in iTunes on your computer, connect and right click on it in the device list, then choose "transfer purchases" to copy all bought media and apps from your ipod to your computer.
If the songs are not on your computer and got deleted from your ipod as well, you can't get them back, unless you have a backup of your iTunes library as part of your computer backup. -
When I did my itunes match, there were some duplicated albums and songs in my library. I have gone back into my library from my computer, and deleted the duplicates. When I did so, itunes did not ask me if I wanted to delete them from the cloud. They are still showing up on my iphone as duplicates in the cloud. What can I do to get them from showing up in my iphone?
They are not on the iphone in the first place. It is just a setting that allows you to see the songs that are available in icloud, but not on your iphone. If you turn the setting to off, then you no longer see the songs that are in icloud, but NOT on your iphone.
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Library Duplicated
I just updated to the latest version of iTunes and it duplicated virtually every track in my library. I need a quick way to delete the duplicates. Sorting by "Date Added" will not work, because every track is listed as added on 12/12/2011 even though this happened today 12/19/2011.I've written a script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this thread for background.
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there is no way to delete a podcast (not an episode, but entire podcast, and not entire podcast library) from the library.
I have discovered that problem #2 is because I no longer get a column of "check boxes" allowing me to check certain songs. I get it in the library view but not in the CD view, which is where I need it. Don't see a setting in preferences for this. Would solve a lot of problems if I could get a column of check marks.
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How do i delete duplicate photos in my iphoto library. i imported them (1500 pics) twice and don't want to manually go through them all. Is there a way to get iphoto to compare photos and delete the duplicates?
There are two apps, actually one app and one Applescript script, for finding and removing duplicate photos from iPhoto. They are:
Duplicate Annihilator
iPhoto AppleScript to Remove Duplicates
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I received the update notice from system preferences, so I followed the usual drill, accepting recommended update/downloads and restarting - one of those being an iTunes update.
Once the mini was restarted I went to my iTunes movie library to watch a movie and discovered that ALL movies (digital downloads and iTunes purchases) as well as my entire music library had been deleted. This has NEVER happened with previous updates.
How can I restore/find my files? They do not seem to be in the user location and I tried changing where iTunes looks for the music and movie files but that didn't work.
I'm so frustrated, there were over 11,000 music files and over 30 movies that seem to have been deleted.
Any help or suggestions to find the missing files is much appreciated!!!I'd fisrt go to spotlight and search for .m4a and/or .mp3 files.
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I have a lot of duplicate photographs in my iPhoto library. It happened while our EIS were saving a computer breakdown, but now i would like to know how to selectively delete the duplicates, without doing it individually. That is, can I set up iPhoto to automatically search for and delete duplicate photographs in the library?
see Old Toad's post in this thread for his list - How can I check for duplicate photos in my IPhoto library? and tests
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How do I delete exact duplicates in my library?
How do I delete exact duplicates from my library?
@Blouwagie:
You should always make a bootable backup BEFORE you do major updates.
If things go wrong you can always revert to what you had previously.
You can do this with Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper. (I use CCC for a long time, and I'm very satisfied about it, I can recommend it)
It used to be donation ware, but now you need to pay a small fee. Not a big price for always knowing you're safely backed up.
If you don't have a bootable clone from before the update, and would like to revert to 10.7, check this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4560565
seems to work.
didn't need it myself since I waited to update, I always check this forums first to find out what are the issues/bugs. When there seems to be none or little problems, I update. I've learned my lesson long time ago. Patience is a good thing...
So, always backup. More important than your changing underwear daily. Time machine isn't enough. Make two bootable clones. One at your place and one at a different location (theft, fire, ...), you can always revert from there.
+Send Apple your feedback.
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Iphoto trash deleted and lost entire photo library
Hi, I have emptied my iphoto trash which deleted my entire iphoto library. Help!
Restore from your backup.
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Warning: iPhoto 08 Makes it Too Easy to Delete Entire Library
This is just a warning to everyone else since it happened to me this morning. I accidentally deleted my entire iPhoto library because my roommate stupidly placed the icon "iPhoto Library" into the trashcan, and this morning I emptied the trashcan.
I don't know why Apple made the entire photo library into just one icon. That icon is so precious, if you know how to do it, make it impossible to delete it! It is WAY too easy to delete your collection of photos because of this oversimplification in the new iPhoto 08 "upgrade." I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else.
Too bad I dont have time machine/Leopard right now...Sorry for your troubles, but f your room mate is capable of putting the v7 library in the trash, then he/she is as capable of putting an ordinary folder in the trash. The change was made to the format of the iPhoto library because many users were inadvertently corrupting their library by browsing through it with other software or making changes in it themselves. It's hard to legislate for room mates.
Now you need a utilit like File Salvage and an external HD to recover the files to.
Regards
TD
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