How to mass remove memeo plist files

I have folders copied from varoius sources, my mca, laptop and other older external drives all combined on my new external drive. One set of folders has .memeo plist files cluttering up every folder, thousands of them. How can I search for these so that I can delete them. Because going into every folder is going to take forever.

I would download [TrashIt] which is a user-friendly wrapper for some underlying system commands. To delete items that are not in the Trash, you drag their icons directly onto the TrashIt icon. If you instead double-click the TrashIt icon, it will "force-empty" the regular Trash.
I would try it first with just one of your "bad" files to see what happens. If that works, then you can try dragging an entire selection of files or folders onto the TrashIt icon.

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