New to a Mac in general and having multiple issues with iTunes - Help?

So I bought my first mac for design/marketing uses (flyers, video etc) and figured I'd consolidate my wife and I's iTunes stuff to it as well...So far most things are done but I have a few snags.
In moving everything over I knew I would end up with a lot of duplicates, we both had a lot of the same music via the CD's we own. The process I did was I connected the external drives from my machine and my wifes machine to the Mac which already had an external blank 200GB drive connected to it and iTunes was setup to use that drive as the music folder location. I then added all the music from the external drives from my machine and wifes machine to iTunes one at a time. I then imported the library playlists etc and changed the path in the files from "M:\itunes music\" to "file://localhost/music" ... This worked, all playlists are back and work.
For handling duplicates on my windows machines in the past I would sort to show duplicates then would go through selecting all duplicates (using ctrl key to select a lot at a time) then delete those in iTunes, it would ask to delete the file and I always had it delete the files because the files themselves were always duplicated (those file being songname1.mp3, songname2.mp3 etc). This worked for the windows machines...not so much for the mac. Apparently the mac didn't duplicate all actual files and instead created duplicate entries based on the same file in a lot of cases.
Snags:
It looks like the duplicates the mac is showing sometimes are showing multiple entries in iTunes for the same physical file, so If I delete the file, I'm deleting the only copy of the song. Sometimes though there are songname1.mp3, songname2.mp3 etc...This makes it extremely difficult to kill out the duplicates because now I have to look to see what file every duplicate is looking at before deciding to delete file or not...I would be sitting here for weeks on end to do that! I need a better solution.
Second snag that I think is related to the first. My iTunes library is showing 213GB's worth of music being stored on the 200GB drive. I think this is due to the duplicate entries using the same file...The library should be more around 140GB's. I just want to confirm this is indeed the issue or know if there is another place a mac would try to store itunes music if the music folder fills up?

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.9.2 (13C1021) < from your report
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Click the Apple  top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click Software Update.
That will update your Mac to OS X 10.9.4
Restart your Mac after the update is installed then try Mail.
Very important to keep your system software up to date for security.

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WonderWoofy wrote:You say that you need to use a 64-bit OS, don't you mean 32-bit.
No, I mean that I have to be able to use 32 Gigabytes of RAM with any application I am using, which cannot be done with a 32-bit OS. This system is used for Memory intensive 3D images and volumes.
WonderWoofy wrote:A 32-bit EFI is incapable of booting a 64-bit OS. I should know, I have a late 2006 MacBook and spent quite a bit of time banging my head against the wall over this. If you want to use a 64-bit OS, you have to use bios emulation. This is in fact why those other distros you mention above boot correctly. Many Mac users tend to (incorrectly) call this mode bootcamp.
Can you provide a link with a procedure or more information about booting in BIOS mode? I think all the places I looked I ignored this because I wasn't sure what the difference was.
WonderWoofy wrote:I think with the new install discs and macs, you have to remove the UEFI. Especially in your case where you need a 32-bit uefi, as this is not an option on the installer. I tried booting an installer on my macbook, and it would not go. These forums were filled with these threads a couple months ago, and the.redikulus.rat pointed everyone to a page in our wiki to remove the UEFI. Personally I did not try I because my mac is not my main machine anymore, but it is reported to work.
You know you can install Arch from any live cd or other distro now that it is a chroot install method. You could before, if you didn't use the AIF, but now there is no choice. I think it would be especially easy with the archbang live cd, as I think that they use the same repositories. So you should be able to install the arch-install-scripts package. If not, you could always simply fire up links and download the package and manually install it. Then you should be able to proceed like normal.
I am unclear what you mean with removing the UEFI. Do you mean removing it from the kernel or the bootloader? Please, point me to this page used by the.redikulus.rat. As for the second half, I have already installed via chroot, and the difficulty is getting it to boot from anywhere.

TS1702 Recently my iPad is having connection issues with iTunes and the app store. I always get the message, "Can't connect to iTunes"...can anyone suggest a solution?

I have tried everything. Wifi is working, I can use safari with no problems, I've tried restarting iPad, I've tried signing out then back into iTunes...and a reboot of my iPad. Nothing works!!!! Oh and I checked for updates and everything is up to date.
What is anyone's suggestion??? Need help please!!!

See:
IOS 6 App store crash: Apple Support Communities
Try:
- Reset the iPod. Nothing will be lost
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup
- Restore to factory settings/new iPod.
- Last, make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

New to a Mac in general and having multiple issues with iTunes - Help?

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