I have added a folder incorrectly and now have a duplicate of all my music in itunes. can I easily tell itunes to remove a folder from the library ?
I added a folder to iTunes when adding some music - sadly it was my backup folder and now I have duplicates of everything in iTunes !
Is it possible to "un-add" the folder so that I get back to only one copy of the files ? I have 70Gb of music so there is no way I can do it manually and putting music on shuffle to avoid repeat tracks is going to get tedious !
Thanks
Mark
Apple's official advice on duplicates is here... HT2905: How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library. It is a manual process and the article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls such as lost ratings and playlist membership.
Use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to display duplicates as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sorting the list by Date Added may make it easier to select the appropriate tracks, however this works best when performed immediately after the dupes have been created. If you have multiple entries in iTunes connected to the same file on the hard drive then don't send to the recycle bin.
Use my DeDuper script if you're not sure, don't want to do it by hand, or want to preserve ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this thread for background, this post for detailed instructions, and please take note of the warning
to backup your library before deduping.
(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed.)
The most recent version of the script can tidy dead links as long as there is at least one live duplicate to merge stats and playlist membership to and copes sensibly when the same file has been added via multiple paths.
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