Thousands of duplicate favorites

Some how my favorites have managed to duplicate themselves thousands and thousands of times. I just recently noticed this when I tried looking at my favorites in IE11 and it kept crashing. Heres what I did...I cleaned out my favorites in IE and i figured id be good. Then the next day they all came back. I realized then it was because i have icloud installed on Windows PC and they are obviously in the cloud. So i stopped the sync from the iCloud program. Then I went to my ipad and iphone and unselected the safari icon in icloud backup and i deleted all the favorites from both the devices. Then i turned back on the sync through the program and they all started coming back again....can someone help me? how can i delete the favorites out of icloud? I have an html backup to pc so ill be fine re syncing that up. thanks!
I dont have the slighest idea if this happened after the ios8 update or not...

Hello there, carlos28355.
Thanks for the update on your issue. Due to the nature of your issue you may find more information by using another one of Apple's support resources - https://getsupport.apple.com/GetproductgroupList.action to get a more hands-on response.
Cheers,
Pedro

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How to remove thousands of duplicate emails in Apple Mail?

Hi everybody,
I know there are a couple of discussions on the web already about this issue, but I cannot find one that clearly answers my question or solves my problem.
I'm working on Lion with Mail version 5.1 and I have a Gmail-account. I have been messing around a bit with IMAP and POP to re-collect all my Gmail-mails into Apple Mail, but now I see that almost every email has 1 to 5 or even more duplicates.
I've tried Andreas Amann's "Remove Duplicates" script, but whatever Mailbox I check, it doesn't work with Lion (yet). I get this error:
There is another script I tried, the one from this page: http://hints.macworld.com/comment.php?mode=view&cid=115625
It just makes my computer freak out, so not OK.
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It relocates all the duplicates to a folder on my Desktop, called "Remove Duplicate Messages". I do find them there, but the mails in the selected Mailbox in Mail.app still show their duplicates! Even when I throw the files from the new folder on Desktop in the Trash and empty it, nothing changes. Not even after restarting Mail. Or my Mac.
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I have found a very satisfactory solution to eliminating my duplicates in Apple Mail, which is to stop using it and switch to Thunderbird.
There's lots that I like better in Apple Mail, but Thunderbird is light-years more flexible in managing your email than is Apple Mail, because Thunderbird is an open platform with excellent Add-ons available, which include the nifty Remove Duplicate Messages: http://bit.ly/tbird-dups. It is stupid that Apple Mail hides duplicate messages in the background & won't allow users to search and destroy them. Frustrating!
As a prologue to that, you need the TB import export Add-on: http://bit.ly/tbirdimportexport
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Now that the project is complete, I'm very happy with Thunderbird to manage my email archives. Though I actually would prefer the Lion Apple Mail interface for day to day use, it just isn't flexible enough.

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I can use "Show Duplicates" to show all of them in one screen. But Apple's advice was to simply "select the duplicates I want to delete."
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Consolidation made thousands of duplicates

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Subject Lightroom 1.1 created thousands of duplicate records
Posted by dvine [CLICK FOR PROFILE]
Date/Time 10:07:47 PM, Friday, July 13, 2007
I thought I had about 20,000 raw images in crw, cr2, nef and tif camera raw formats.
Over the years, I had backups and duplicates scattered about, but each unique image had the same base name... yymmdd_serial#.
So I looked forward to using LR to help organize the mess.
I created a LR database and incorporated my most complete collection, converting all to dng as I went. I ended up with about 20,ooo images.
I then began importing from other sources with similar, but not identical file structures, and with ignore duplicates checked. I was suprised to learn that I actually had about 30.000 images.
Unfortunately about 10,000 were duplicates of two dng types.
1) Many were copies with -2.dng added to the original file name. This must be a problem with the DNG converter which goes through any directory and simply copies and renames duplicates. These are not too difficult to eliminate with Vista's search for *-2.dng.
2) Much nastier was the fact that dng files with the same name that existed in different subdirectories were imported and only when I tried to clean up some of these subdirectories in LR, was I informed there were other files with the same name. So I had to use BreezeBrowser to find and eliminate about 5000 duplicate dng files... Now they are not exactly duplicates because many were gererated

That may be a consequence of not being on the forum, but by email or RSS.
I much prefer direct forum psoting, myself.
Don
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Messages are being duplicated by the thousands in Inbox, Sent, and Trash. This is happening on two MacBook Pros using a single email address. The more we delete the messages, the more appear! We're seeing 1700+ being downloaded as we are deleting from these mailboxes. It's as though we've set up a closed loop between these mailboxes, and the messages are being multiplied exponentially! The downloading stops if we go off-line, but our gmail server Inbox, Sent and Trash don't show unusual activity. When the messages are being downloaded by the hundreds, they are downloading much faster than our internet provider (Telus) can download, so for that reason I believe this is internal to Apple Mail. But how does that fit with the observation that the bizarre activity stops when we go offline?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4863
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3276
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I don't know how, but when i transferred my library from my old pc to my new mac all the songs duplicated either once, twice or three times. And i have many songs, so it would take me forever to delete every song manually. How can i delete all at once?

How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2905
Posts by turingtest2 about different types of duplicates and techniques - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3555601 and https://discussions.apple.com/message/16042406 (Note: The DeDuper script is for Windows)
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/dupin.php (commercial)
http://www.hardcoded.net/dupeguru_me/
http://www.wideanglesoftware.com/tunesweeper/index.php
http://www.araxis.com/find-duplicate-files (commercial, free trial) - finds duplicate files on computer, not specifically iTunes
I would do it manually. As you can see from turingtest2's post, some duplicates are not really duplicates.
I would also review how you add media to iTunes. It should not be producing all that many duplicates. I strongly suspect you did not move your library correctly.
iTunes: How to move [or copy] your music [library] to a new computer [or another drive] - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527 - a somewhat bewildering and not always easily understandable set of options.
Quick answer if you use iTunes' default preferences settings: Copy the entire iTunes folder (and in doing so all its subfolders and files) intact to the other drive. Open iTunes and immediately hold down the Option (alt) key (shift on Windows), then guide it to the new location of the library.itl file in the moved iTunes folder.

Deleting thousands of duplicates... !!!!

I have just reinstalled Itunes on a new machine & copied my music folder onto the HD. I then added the folder & ITunes helpfully duplicated everything 2, 3 & 4 times? Duh????
The best that Apple helps & even the phone helpdesk could suggest is doing it manually! I have nearly 10,000 duplicates! Get real - who has the time or inclination to sit down & delete them by hand.
I could buy some software but resent having to pay to fix a problem caused by ITunes...! I don't use ITunes by choice, only because they lock you in when you buy an IPod... isn't that what they complained Microsoft did with IE & insisted they were prosecuted for it?
So, is there a reasonable way to delete large numbers of duplicates or is the only way to buy software to solve a problem caused by ITunes? Any recommendations as to s/w?

I wrote a program that I think might delete the duplicates. Whether it works depends on whether those files are identical or not. If the files are in different folders, it won't work.
Go here:
http://www.pobox.com/~teridon/itunesscripts/index.html
and click the download button. Extract the ZIP (teridonsitunesscripts.zip) somewhere, and run "teridonsitunesscripts.exe".
In the window that appears, select "itunesremoveduplicates" and click "Run Selected Script".
A new cmd prompt window will appear, listing all your playlists. Select the Library playlist by typing "1" and hit enter. The program will automatically remove the duplicate entries.
The forum TOS requires me to say: "I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link" because I have a paypal donation link on my webpage, but the program is free (donation totally optional).
HTH,
Rob

Thousands of duplicates

Please help! I have just had to format and reload my PC due to some scrote phishing and putting spyware on it.
I have my music library backed up so all music is OK. I connected my iPod and now I hve 3000 plus duplicates. This means that my library will not go onto my iPod as it is too big.
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I have been doing this for the last 3 evenings and am still on 'B'. There has to be a simpler and quicker way.
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You could try checking out Robert Jacobson's scripts here:
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/
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