Many songs in my library appear to be duplicates. How did thta happen and what do I do?

Many songs in my library appear to be duplicates. How did that happen and what do I do?

henryfromcolonial beach wrote:
A recent download - which I automatically said OK to, has somehow made every image in my library into low res. when I try to use one as a screen saver, it is low res - when I try to print one, it is low res. was this some kind of setup to get me to buy a newer version of iphoto??????
Of course not - in fact it is not something done by iPhoto - it is most likely a user error
What exactly did you do? What did you download? there is nothing in iPhoto that ever changes the resolution of any photo - in fact you can not do it if you want in iPhoto - you have to export photos to a location outside of iPhoto to change the resolution
have you loaded your backup from before you did what ever you did? That is probably the fastest and easiest way to resolve the problem
LN

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