How to delete all "files that cannot be found" files faster! Desperate!!
Hey!! So for the past year and a half, i have had hundreds and hundreds of songs that read "----- file cannot be found--" due to me listening to cd's through itunes, without properly importing them. The result was every song file was saved without the song! So now after i imported the CD's correctly, i have quite a few duplicates of hundreds of songs, and the only way i find out which song is the duplicate is by manually trying to play the individual song. I wish to DELETE all the BLANK songs whether they be duplicates or just single files. I was just tolerating it all this time, but now that i ordered my itouch, i need to consolidate my library! Please help, thanks!!
PS: I saw other threads where people wanted to delete duplicate songs, but i didn't know if the programs that where reccomended to them deleted a random duplicate, because if that is the case, it could delete the good copy of the song, where i would want it to delete the blank copy. Thanks again.
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THANKS AGAIN!!! PLEASE HELP THIS PROBLEM IS KILLING ME! =O
Message was edited by: mr.nooby
Here is a script to find dead tracks.
Rename it to FindDeadTracks.js
Run iTunes.
While iTunes is running, double click FindDeadTracks.js to run the script.
http://ottodestruct.com/itunes/FindDeadTracks.txt
You can look at the resulting Notepad document it creates, if you like, to make sure it found files you were expecting.
Then to get rid of those tracks, download this: http://ottodestruct.com/iTunes/RemoveDeadTracks.txt
Rename it to RemoveDeadTracks.js.
Run iTunes.
While iTunes is running, double click RemoveDeadTracks.js to run the script. It'll remove all the exclamation marked tracks.
For the duplicate tracks, you pretty much need to look at those on a case-by-case basis.
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