Duplicates missing in iTunes 11

Hi everyone. Not sure if this is going to help anyone or not but since I solved a big bugaboo of iTunes 11 I thought other people may have the same problem so I thought, what the hey.
I downloaded iTunes 11 but the 2 things I LOVED about prior versions were missing - duplicate and song count. I called support and they said they took away those two features. CRAP! I was ****** to say the least. Yesterday I thought I would see if I could go back to an older version of iTunes. I tried but when I uninstalled 11 and tried to download 10.7 I got a major error. I thought, great now I f@@ed up my iTunes. Called support, explained what i did and why. They told me that once you download 11 you CANNOT go back to a prior version. He also said that the 2 features I wanted were taken away from 11. He told me to just download 11 and that should fix my error problem.
Now comes the good news ------- I went to iTunes and downloaded 11 and while I was making the screen the way I liked it - click this, click that - guess what I found? Duplicates and song count! YAHOO!!!!! Now whether it was an update to 11 or not I have no clue but I got exactly what I wanted.
Whether this can help anyone or not I have no clue, but I thought I would tell anyone who had the same "problem" with 11.
Janet

The Show Duplicates/Show Exact Duplicates features were missing from 11.0 and restore in 11.0.1.
Note if trying to eliminate duplicates from the library Shift-View-Show Exact Duplicates should reveal them. Keep one of each repeated group of files and don't send to the recycle bin unless you are sure that there are multiple files on the disc as opposed to multiple entries to the same file.
There is also my DeDuper script if you don't want to do it by hand. This can preserve ratings, play counts, playlist membership, etc. which are lost in a manual clean up. Please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping. See this thread for background on deduping and the script.
The status bar with song count and playlist length should turn off and on with Ctrl / although in my case I don't seem to be able to turn it off again.
Downgrading iTunes is possible, but you normally need to restore an older version of your library database at the same time.
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