Duplicate Imports

I created a new itunes account and started importing music from CD's. Songs imported fine for a day without error. Second day tried to import additional music and after each CD import attempt I get a box that says the music is already imported do I want to "replace existing" "don't replace" or "cancel". Canceling does not import any songs on the CD. Replacing and don't replace will run the cycle again taking twice as long to import and when it's done I have duplicate songs for that CD. I have now run five CD's and all are saying the same thing and it's a new CD with new songs. Do not have the songs in the library yet, but the box keeps popping up with replace. Any suggestions? Thanks.

I think the problem is solved although I'm not sure how I did it. I deinstalled itunes again, ran a thorough scan of my system, reinstalled itunes. When I added a CD manually for the first time after the second reinstall a box popped up and asked if I wanted to "automatically import" I clicked this button figuring it was something new and why not. Now it's working. Never saw the box on the first install or the second install after I deinstalled the first time. It was the third reinstall after the system scan that the box popped up. Have no idea...now it's fine. No duplicates and no box asking saying songs are already on there. Don't know if it was a bug my scan fixed or if the box was the trick but it's working like a charm now.
thanks for your advice and help. Even though your ideas didn't work it was helpful to have the feedback.

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Consider the senario, Camera card contents are imported, the card is reinserted into the camera without deleting previous import, new photos are taken, "skip duplicates" is ignored on new import, all photos on the card are imported, resulting in duplicates.
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Michael Superczynski wrote:
Care to clue us in on how you do that?
The iPad's file system is hidden and not accessible unless perhaps you have jailbroken the iPad.
Not jailbroken. The OP asked about photos that were imported, not sync'ed.
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I did notice that under the orignals in iPhoto only the photo number was shown but under the duplicates that were imported, the titles that had been placed before the import were shown. Did this make the difference so that the duplicates were imported?
Please explain exactly what you have done. If you have edited the photos in another program then they are different
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Hi everyone,
I'm so frustrated. Every time I either duplicate a photo, edit in external editor, or actually after every single import from the digital camera (I use a card reader, but the camera is EOS 20D for completeness) iPhoto stops responding, freezes, I get the spinning ball. I mean, I went to Macs because I was fed up wasting so much time just getting things to work, and now this? :''-(
I've tried repairing permissions, cron scripts, deleting the iPhoto prefs file and it still happens. BTW, for the technical ones around you, if I restart iPhoto after I have to force quit, the duplicated photo is there. Just like the import goes through. Just at the end it hangs itself. Also to my bewilderment, duplicating an already duplicated photo (by clicking on the duplicate) the iPhoto will not freeze exceptionally. Oh, and I also tried manual permissions (RW for me AND the group), plus I AM the admin and the only user account on this mac ever since it was new.
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for now, use Image Capture to import your images.
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I have the same camera!
Back on subject...sometimes trashing the iPhoto Preference file will give you back the dialog. sometimes it goes away again for the the same people. I don't know why that is.
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Importing from iPhone: Same iPhone, same MacBook, but different Time Zone and WiFi network. iPhoto wrongly detects old photos already imported as new. Then when imported again, they are immediately recognised as duplicate. Is there any way to "mark" photos as already imported?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
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When choosing "Add Folder to Library" and selecting the folder, the end result is iTunes imports each song twice naming the duplicate with the number 1 at the end of the song file name. My Preferences, Advanced Tab, General Tab has "Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library" checked on. The option "Keep iTunes Music folder organized is checked off". This is how I like it and have always used these settings.
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I never had this case, this might be a parameter in your QAS refresh procedure.
1/ If you empty your production import buffer (meaning you import it all to production) before tacking the production copy you will never have this issue.
2/ If you have some transportd left in the import buffer of production , you have this issue ? I guess this is our case
I will try to reformulate the case.
The refresh of QAS is causing the lost of some customizing that were not yet imported in production but was imported in QAS prior to the refresh of QAS.
When you reimport the "overwritten" transports in QAS after the refresh, this transport is removed from the QAS import buffer and going too the import buffer of production.
A/The same transport is now twice in the import buffer of production ? we don't have this in our landscape (I even think this was not possible)
B/Or in between this transport has been imported in production and thus you are right it falls in the import buffer of production again with another sequence.
Thank you to confirm your case A or B ?.

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