Question regarding duplicate songs on iphone 4

i have two of the same song, but one doesn't play and has a circle with a square in it next to the song. whats the deal?

How can you stop it happening though? i have to do this everytime I syncmy phone

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3 questions regarding duplicate script

3 questions regarding duplicate script
Here is my script for copying folders from one Mac to another Mac via Ethernet:
(This is not meant as a backup, just to automatically distribute files to the other Mac.
For backup I'm using Time Machine.)
cop2drop("Macintosh HD:Users:home:Desktop", "zome's Public Folder:Drop Box:")
cop2drop("Macintosh HD:Users:home:Documents", "zome's Public Folder:Drop Box:")
cop2drop("Macintosh HD:Users:home:Pictures", "zome's Public Folder:Drop Box:")
cop2drop("Macintosh HD:Users:home:Sites", "zome's Public Folder:Drop Box:")
on cop2drop(sourceFolder, destFolder)
tell application "Finder"
duplicate every file of folder sourceFolder to folder destFolder
duplicate every folder of folder sourceFolder to folder destFolder
end tell
end cop2drop
1. One problem I haven't sorted out yet: How can I modify this script so that
all source folders (incl. their files and sub-folders) get copied
as correspondent destination folders (same names) under the Drop Box?
(At the moment the files and sub-folder arrive directly in the Drop Box
and mix with the other destination files and sub-folders.)
2. Everytime before a duplicate starts, I have to confirm this message:
"You can put items into "Drop Box", but you won't be able to see them. Do you want to continue?"
How can I avoid or override this message? (This script shall run in the night,
when no one is near the computer to press OK again and again.)
3. A few minutes after the script starts running I get:
"AppleScript Error - Finder got an error: AppleEvent timed out."
How can I stop this?
Thanks in advance for your help!

Hello
In addition to what red_menace has said...
1) I think you may still use System Events 'duplicate' command if you wish.
Something like SCRIPT1a below. (Handler is modified so that it requires only one parameter.)
*Note that the 'duplicate' command of Finder and System Events duplicates the source into the destination. E.g. A statement 'duplicate folder "A:B:C:" to folder "D:E:F:"' will result in the duplicated folder "D:E:F:C:".
--SCRIPT1a
cop2drop("Macintosh HD:Users:home:Documents")
on cop2drop(sourceFolder)
set destFolder to "zome's Public Folder:Drop Box:"
with timeout of 36000 seconds
tell application "System Events"
duplicate folder sourceFolder to folder destFolder
end tell
end timeout
end cop2drop
--END OF SCRIPT1a
2) I don't know the said error -8068 thrown by Finder. It's likely a Finder's private error code which is not listed in any of public headers. And if it is Finder thing, you may or may not see different error, which would be more helpful, when using System Events to copy things into Public Folder. Also you may create a normal folder, e.g. named 'Duplicate' in Public Folder and use it as desination.
3) If you use rsync(1) and want to preserve extended attributes, resource forks and ACLs, you need to use -E option. So at least 'rsync -aE' would be required. And I rememeber the looong thread failed to tame rsync for your backup project...
4) As for how to get POSIX path of file/folder in AppleScript, there're different ways.
Strictly speaking, POSIX path is a property of alias object. So the code to get POSIX path of a folder whose HFS path is 'Macintosh HD:Users:home:Documents:' would be :
POSIX path of ("Macintosh HD:Users:home:Documents:" as alias)
POSIX path of ("Macintosh HD:Users:home:Documents" as alias)
--> /Users/home/Documents/
The first one is the cleanest code because HFS path of directory is supposed to end with ":". The second one also works because 'as alias' coercion will detect whether the specified node is file or directory and return a proper alias object.
And as for the code :
set src to (sourceFolder as alias)'s POSIX Path's text 1 thru -2
It is to strip the trailing '/' from POSIX path of directory and get '/Users/home/Documents', for example. I do this because in shell commands, trailing '/' of directory path is not required and indeed if it's present, it makes certain command behave differently.
E.g.
Provided /a/b/c and /d/e/f are both directory, cp /a/b/c /d/e/f will copy the source directory into the destination directory while cp /a/b/c/ /d/e/f will copy the contents of the source directory into the destination directory.
The rsync(1) behaves in the same manner as cp(1) regarding the trailing '/' of source directory.
The ditto(1) and cp(1) behave differently for the same arguments, i.e., ditto /a/b/c /d/e/f will copy the contents of the source directory into the destination directory.
5) In case, here are revised versions of previous SCRIPT2 and SCRIPT3, which require only one parameter. It will also append any error output to file named 'crop2dropError.txt' on current user's desktop.
*These commands with the current options will preserve extended attributes, resource forks and ACLs when run under 10.5 or later.
--SCRIPT2a - using cp(1)
cop2drop("Macintosh HD:Users:home:Documents")
on cop2drop(sourceFolder)
set destFolder to "zome's Public Folder:Drop Box:"
set src to (sourceFolder as alias)'s POSIX Path's text 1 thru -2
set dst to (destFolder as alias)'s POSIX Path's text 1 thru -2
set sh to "cp -pR " & quoted form of src & " " & quoted form of dst
do shell script (sh & " 2>>~/Desktop/cop2dropError.txt")
end cop2drop
--END OF SCRIPT2a
--SCRIPT3a - using ditto(1)
cop2drop("Macintosh HD:Users:home:Documents")
on cop2drop(sourceFolder)
set destFolder to "zome's Public Folder:Drop Box:"
set src to (sourceFolder as alias)'s POSIX Path's text 1 thru -2
set dst to (destFolder as alias)'s POSIX Path's text 1 thru -2
set sh to "src=" & quoted form of src & ";dst=" & quoted form of dst & ¬
";ditto "${src}" "${dst}/${src##*/}""
do shell script (sh & " 2>>~/Desktop/cop2dropError.txt")
end cop2drop
--END OF SCRIPT3a
Good luck,
H
Message was edited by: Hiroto (fixed typo)

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I have an office support business, and I use a Max OS X.
One of my clients has an iphone, and he wanted me to download his address book from his iphone onto my Mac so I could then edit his address book.
This morning, I plugged my client's iphone into my laptop to download his address book onto my computer.
The system said it had to download a new version iTunes (took over an hour).
After the download, I received a window message on my computer: *"iTunes has detected an iphone in recovery mode. You must restore this phone before it can be used with iTunes.*
I don't want to use the phone in conjunction with iTunes. However, the only option I have is to restore. No "cancel" nor any other option.
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(2) IS there a way for me to download his address book onto my computer so I can then edit his entries for him. And if so, how?
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You're welcome.
I believe (with about a 99% certainty) that my client originally downloaded his contacts from his Mac Airbook onto his iphone. However (and again, with that same certainty), I don't think he used "address book" - I think he purchased and used a different "contacts" software program (although, at the moment, I don't remember the name of it).
The only other application on a Mac that is supported for syncing contact info with an iPhone is Entourage 2004 or 2008 - part of Microsoft Office 2004 or 2008 for the Mac), which is synced with the Address Book.
1) You mentioned "after the firmware is re-installed" . . . is this something that is done automatically during the restore?
When restoring an iPhone with iTunes, the iPhone is completely erased first. This is followed by the current firmware version being re-installed. After the firmware is re-installed, you are prompted to restore the iPhone from the iPhone's most recent backup - which is created and maintained by iTunes during the sync process. The iPhone's backup is updated if needed when syncing the iPhone with iTunes - if any of the data included with the iPhone's backup has changed since the last sync, which is usually 100% of the time when syncing. The other option available is restoring the iPhone as a new iPhone or not from the iPhone's backup. This must be followed by a sync with iTunes to re-transfer all iTunes content, and any photos transferred from your computer to your iPhone.
You don't have a backup on your Mac for your client's iPhone, and you don't have your client's iTunes library available, nor any photos transferred from your client's computer to the iPhone.
Currently, on his iphone, the screen shows an iTunes icon on top, and on bottom, it shows a USB port icon . . . and in between the two is an up arrow (from the USB port icon, up to the iTunes icon). I am not able to get anything else to appear on the iphone's screen.
Because something was seriously wrong with this iPhone for this iPhone to go into recovery mode. When in recovery mode, the only thing you can do is restore the iPhone with iTunes.
(2) Will that ^^^ be corrected during the restore? And if so, will he have access to his iphone as it was before he gave it to me?
Restoring the iPhone with iTunes should fix the problem since the iPhone will be completely erased followed by the current firmware version being re-installed, but you don't have a backup for this iPhone to restore the iPhone from the backup, so this iPhone will be restored as a new iPhone only if your restore the iPhone with iTunes on your computer.
You need to restore the iPhone with your client's computer.
(3) Does this mean, that if I do what I have quoted, then no data will be lost?
Depending on how often your client syncs the iPhone with iTunes on his/her computer. If a number of contacts were manually added to this iPhone by your client since syncing the iPhone with iTunes on his/her computer, these contacts will be lost when restoring the iPhone with iTunes from the iPhone's backup, and if the iPhone has not been synced with a supported application on your client's computer since any contacts were manually added to the iPhone, the newly added contacts on the iPhone will not be available with the supported application on your client's computer either.
4) Also, how do I perform a sync?
After the iPhone is restored with iTunes on your client's computer from the iPhone's backup, you select Sync at the bottom right of the iTunes window with the iPhone selected in the iTunes source list.
Check this link - under the Getting Started section - setting up syncing.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/tips/

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At home, I use Apple routers, and have no issues with any of my WiFi enabled devices, computers, mobile devices, etc - even the lowly PeeCees. I have locations where I have Juniper Networks, as well as Aruba, and a few Netgears - all of them work as they should.
The cheaper routers, Linksys, D-Link, Seimens home units, and many other no name devices have caused issues of various kinds, and even connectivity.
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hello,
I tried searching the forums for a related questions but didn't find any. if it exists let me know.
i have a iphone 5 (ios 6) and a ipod 2g (ios 4.2). I use itunes on windows and manage both devices manually for music and videos. Now I have a playlist in WMP which I exported as a .m3u file.
In itunes, I can import the playlist and it shows up under the 'playlists' correctly. Now I wanted to transfer this playlist to my ipod and iphone (note: my ipod and iphone already have all the songs in the playlist plus many others. I never use them in 'sync' mode).
I was under the impression that a playlist is just a list of pointers to songs and not songs themselves. So when I drag the playlist into the ipod within itunes, it creates a new playlist with that name on the ipod and correctly transfers the pointers onto the ipod. the playlist works perfectly on the ipod and there and no duplicate songs.
now with the new iphone 5 and new ios 6, something seems to be different. when i drag the playlist into the iphone, it does create a new playlist but it copies all the songs again, even though the exact songs (all metadata identical since they're from the same physical source on my harddisk - album, artists, art, title, etc). so it creates duplicates of these songs.
now the still tougher part. I tunes apparently has a find duplicates feature. But it onyl seem to work for music imported into itunes library. It is greyed out if you click on the iphone and then try to find duplicates (if iphone is set to manually manage music.)
so is this expected behaviour? I think this is a bug in the new ios since the drag drop playlist manually works perfectly in ios 4.2.
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Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
You can delete individual songs, artists, albums, playlists, compilations and composers from your iPhone. To delete an item, swipe across it, then tap Delete.
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manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
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I have tried re-syncing with my iTunes on my PC and it doesn't work. Just says "syncing" and quickly goes through the steps, and everything on the iphone is still the same. I can delete albums from my collection on my PC and they delete from the iphone, but the duplicate songs are not showing up on the PC and they are in the phone and I can't see any way to get rid of them without deleting the whole album from my collection.

I just had this happen when I wanted "normalized" music on my iPhone because I am no satisfied with sound check. All my songs still had different volumes. I turned off the cloud on my phone and added music with USB. I turned the cloud back on and I got the duplicate issue. Here is what I did to fix it:
Turn off Match on phone
Update match in iTunes from the "store" menu (see below for why this might be REALLY important.
Connect phone
Check "manually manage" in iTunes from the first tab when you click your phone in the left pane
Open the "tree" for you iPhone in iTunes by clicking the triangle.
Select "music" in that tree.
Delete all the Music from the phone.
Sync it.
Eject phone.
Turn match back on and download music via the iPhone but this takes a while.
or I just reconnected it, then went to the music tab for the phone ticked the sync option and checked the playlists I wanted. I synced it. I then made sure "manually manage" was checked in first tab, then went into the left pane and deleted the playlists. This leaves the music on the iPhone but not the playlists. I ejected and turned on match on the phone.
My guess is there is a glitch where identical playlists from the cloud seemed to conflict with the ones physically on the phone and / or iTunes match could not match the physical files on the phone. It seems my metadata for the files "seemed" different than the ones in the cloud. Running RealPlay gain on my library is suspect for my issue so if something happened on your computer that changed the data about your files even without you knowing, this might be the issue. It is merely a hypothesis but it seems logical. Resyncing match then putting the newly understood match on the phone seems to resolve my issue.

I have 2 questions regarding the iphone 5. 1 How do i get my yahoo mail set up. I tried the setting it up as both a yahoo mail and other mail. 2. I seem to have lost my notes on my iphone 5 but I have them on my ipad. How can I use cloud to sync my notes?

I have 2 questions regarding the iphone 5. 1 How do i get my yahoo mail set up. I tried the setting it up as both a yahoo mail and other mail. 2. I seem to have lost my notes on my iphone 5 but I have them on my ipad. How can I use cloud to sync my notes?

I will address your second question.
First, make sure your iPhone and iPad have absolutely identical Apple IDs. If they do, use that Apple ID in Settings > iCloud on your iPhone to select the "Notes" option. Lo and behold, all your iCloud notes should appear on your iPhone.

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I have many playlists to organize my music and many songs end up in multiple playlists. I want to have these playlists in my phone but do not want duplicate songs taking up space on the phone. How do I do this?
To be more detailed, I am a musicain and I keep playists of the songs I need to know for different bands that I'm in and often times there are songs that multiple bands require me to know. Also, I have DJ playists that again, will utilize the same song. These are two examples of how one song can be in multiple playlists. I really need these playlists in my phone but I can't have some Beatles song four or five times in my phone. Isn't there a way to import a playlist as a pointer or locator to metadata so the playlist, once imported, just parses through the existing songs on my phone and generates the playist? This seem like it would be a fairly simple thing for Apple to do, no?
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Hi, Damon M., and thanks for answering me!
So my Playlists and Smart Playlists are only made up of music (plus four or five music videos that don't represent a lot of space), no Audiobooks and no TV Shows.
When I click on my Music folder, it says I have 4.12GB on the bottom (including the Music videos).
Since I don't sync anything else on my 8GB iPhone but this 4.12GB of music, reorganized in Playlists, I don't see why I get a box saying I need 12GB to fit everything in.
So what I do now is manually sync my music, which on my iPhone takes up about 4GB. But I want my Playlists too...
It's as soon as I want to sync on my Playlists that everything goes wrong.
So... do you have any more suggestions/ideas?
Thanks,
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How can I remove duplicate songs from the iPhone4. The duplicates are not listed in the computer iTunes library.

The simplest thing may be to back-up and then restore the iPhone. If you don't fancy that then remove all media that is currently synced to it, then double check and manually remove any media that remains on the device, before reselecting your sync options.
If you've been manually managing the device and your library doesn't contain copies of all your media then see Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device.
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