Duplicates of duplicates HELP!
A friend of mine asked me to help with their itunes library... I am stunned... there's about 5,000 songs worth of duplicates in their library and simply viewing duplicates and deleting them by hand is far too long to do. Is there any way to eliminate the songs from the itunes library folder or a faster way to delete the duplicates? A lot of these songs have about a total of 3-4 duplicates for one song. Any tricks anyone has up their sleeves to make this an easier process?
I have a somewhat similar problem. I even have a song that I just bought a few weeks ago in iTunes that how has a duplicate - how could that be? I only downloaded it once!
If you have a song in your library that you put into more than one playlist, does it get added to the library for each playlist it's in? And if you delete the duplicates in the library, will the songs be gone from some of the playlists you put them in? And if you delete them from all but one playlist, will the duplicates be gone?
I don't like the idea of having 2 or more copies of all my songs if there's no need for it, but I do have many songs that I have in more than one playlist. Is that what causes it?
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Aanidaani,
Have you tried the procedures outlined in Troubleshooting Help Viewer by Dr. Smoke?
Additionally, OnyX has a Reset Help function:"Mac OS Help: This command restore library of the application and deletes certain files that might cause problems when you want to show the Mac OS Help. To find again the Help of an application in the Mac OS Help Library, you must relaunch the Help, at least one time, from this application."
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I've been using iPhoto for years. I've also frequently edited my iPhoto photos in Adobe Photoshop Elements and simply saved the edited photos. No duplicates. The original version could still be returned to (just as if I'd edited in iPhoto).
Ever since I upgraded to the latest version of Adobe Photoshop Elements, v. 10, every time I go to the external editor, iPhoto (or Photoshop?) creates a DUPLICATE photo when I save the edited file.
Any wisdom?
I'll also check with Adobe, but I know I'll get quicker - and better - advice here in Apple Discussions.
Thanks.Just in case this was the issue, while wating for a reply from you & others, I did exactly that...hoping they listen to feedback on this issue and act on it soon.
(I'm one of those disenchanted Apple customers who is skeptical that anyone's listening...witness the death of Mobileme and my beloved Gallery and the endless, long discussions on this subject on this website.)
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I have thousands of files that i have made duplicates for back up
they are spread across many drives. So I took all the photos on all my drives and combined them into one folder with many sub-folders. My plan is to eliminate all the duplicates from this folder on a single drive. Than I plan to start fresh and import into aperture. A few questions I tried using tidy up
however it doesn't seem to catch all the duplicates. Once I get everything cleaned up do you suggest letting apreture handle my files or do it manually. I am afraid if I use aperture and the main file gets corrupt I will be screwed. Should I add meta data before importing or import everything and than add the data? Or should i load everthing into iphoto first. What a mess I have over 60,000 files.In terms of legacy Aperture, I think not. It's important to Apple, just more important to us seemingly in terms of RAW support. But I don't see Apple walking away from it.
Even if they did, it is easy to select whole groups of images and export either the original masters (untouched) or the edited versions.
If you hold the original masters in folders on disk and "reference" them from Aperture, then migrating the masters to any other app. is simple. Getting the edited versions to another app., whether managed or referenced is by export version (after selecting the version(s) in the Aperture browser) to a folder on disk. Again simple.
That's the images and edited versions. The camera info. is held in the image file so that's OK.
The really challenging "stuff" is the edit information (+.5 exposure, +.2 Sat, -.1 contrast etc.) and metadata. The edit commands are proprietary to Aperture's engine so are unusable elsewhere. The metadata can be exported. I've never done this but I believe it goes out in XML sidecar files. However, the program you read it into may understand it or not. As I note, probably challenging.
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I have a Table with no dups on customer_id (as primary key) and some that have a single dup, meaning 2 rows maximum, here is an example of the data:
I want to flatten the dups rows to one row based on this rule:
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12345 [email protected] N/A
12345 N/A [email protected] want it to be:
12345 [email protected] [email protected]
removing the N/A
all the duplicates are like that and in no other way, I am not sure how to do this, I tried a mix of len and max() but that did not work.
Thanks!Hi,
Kodiak_Seattle wrote:
I have a Table with no dups on customer_id (as primary key) and some that have a single dup, meaning 2 rows maximum, here is an example of the data:I'm confused. If cusotmer_id is the primary key, then you can't possibly have two rows with the same customer_id.
If customer_id is a vARCHAR2, then you might have two rows whose customer_ids are hard to tell apart, e.g. '12345' (5 characters) and '12345 ' (6 characters, including a space at the end).
Whenever you have a problem, please post CREATE TABLE (including PRIMARY KEY constraint) and INSERT statements for a little sample data, and the results you want from that data.
Always say which version of Oracle you're using.
I want to flatten the dups rows to one row based on this rule:
customer_id EMAIL_1 EMAIL_2
12345 [email protected] N/A
12345 N/A [email protected] want it to be:
12345 [email protected] [email protected]
removing the N/A
all the duplicates are like that and in no other way, I am not sure how to do this, I tried a mix of len and max() but that did not work.Assuming customer_id is not the primary key after all, and you want to ignore the string 'N/A' in either email_1 or email_2, you might do something like this:
SELECT customer_id
, MIN (NULLIF (email_1, 'N/A')) AS email_1
, MIN (NULLIF (email_2, 'N/A')) AS email_2
FROM table_x
GROUP BY customer_id
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Thanks CatThere is a duplicate removal script here:
http://mysite.verizon.net/teridon/itunesscripts/
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There is also a script for removing not_found tracks.
But you can also do this with a playlist if your library is not too large.
Using a playlist to collect dead tracks.
Create new regular playlist – Playlist1
Select whole library and drag to Playlist1
Create new Smart Playlist with the rule: Playlist is not Playlist1
Live updating checked – after you run it, uncheck live updating or you may not be able to delete tracks.
This playlist should contain all the dead tracks
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5696793#5696793
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When MobileMe (MM from here on) syncs with iPad and iPhone I get six copies of each calendar, although iCal on my Mac only has one of each.
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Thanx, AndyDidn't have the duplicate Help menu problem, but in case this helps, here's what worked for me:
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U1 U1 TP1 5
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C3 WAIVED
T1 ENROLLED
T2 ENROLLED
OBJ2 3 2
S1 ENROLLED
S2 PASSED
T3 WAIVED
U1 U1 TP2 C4 INPROGRESS
50 OBJ11 50 30 C11 PASSED
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If you want to suppress duplicate values in some of your results columns
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http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14357/ch12009.htm#SQPUG030
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Dear Friends,
I have purchased Ipad 3 from the US but unfortunately while returning back to India I have lost in transit the copy of Invoice and a tiny PIN which helps in inserting 3G card.
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