Whgen deleting duplicates does it delete all songs, When deleting duplicates does it delete all songs

when deleting duplicates in Itunes. Will you loose all of your songs or only the duplicates?

See this thread for background on the duplicates feature and why you shouldn't delete all the tracks that are displayed, and why you need to pay attention to exactly what you do delete.
iTunes 11 has removed the Show Duplicates/Exact Duplicates functions so I've added two new scripts to make playlists of Duplicates and Exact Duplicates to my scripts collection.
If deduping by hand use shift-delete to remove selected tracks from the library as well as the playlist.
The Exact Duplicates script makes a good starting point from which to run my DeDuper script if you don't want to do it by hand. Please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping.
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Load up Safari (or chrome, whatever it doesn't matter, those two browsers have the excat same problem)
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I have verified permissions (and repaired them, everything is fine)
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