Duplicate songs in iTunes but duplicate has a 2 after the title

I recently transsfered my music from an old mac to my new iMac. When I look at certain albums there are duplicate songs but the differnce is there s a 2 after the second song. When i view duplicates they do not show because of the 2. I have Rinse and it does not pick it up thier because of the 2.
How can I locate all the files that end with this "2" at the end of each music file.
Thanks
Keith

It is possible that the files are read only or you do not have permission to delete for the music folder in Windows.
If you go into Get Info for a track, will it let you edit? If not it is probably one of the above.

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==========
' Duplicates
' ==========
' Version 1.0.0.2 - December 6th 2012
' Copyright © Steve MacGuire 2011-2012
' http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/Duplicates.vbs
' Please visit http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/scripts.asp for updates
' =======
' Licence
' =======
' This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
' of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either
' version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
' This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
' without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
' See the GNU General Public License for more details.
' Please visit http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html to view the GNU GPLv3 licence.
' ===========
' Description
' ===========
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' Related scripts: Duplicates, DuplicateSong&Artist, ExactDuplicates
' =========
' ChangeLog
' =========
' Version 1.0.0.1 - Initial version

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