Why why why do I have duplicate artists in my browser

I am trying to organize about 90gb of music and the itunes browser artists are a mess. For example, I have 2 Sebastian Bach albums. One is under Sebastian Bach in the Bs, and the other is alphabetized under S. Also I have artists that have THE EXACT SAME NAME, no spaces, no hidden characters, but for whatever reason they show up twice in the browser. Why can't I just drag and drop browser categories to combine artists?

In the browser, select all the artist names that should be listed once as the same artist. Now your library is only showing those tracks. Select All on those tracks showing and do a Get Info. If the Artist field is blank, you likely have more than one variation of the name, hence the duplicate listings. Type in the name you want now which will be applied to all the selected tracks the same way. Hit ok and see if the browser reduces down to the single artist selection.
Patrick

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Why do i have duplicate calendars?

I noticed this morning that I have duplicate calendars showing duplicate events on all of my devices: iMac 2011, MacBook Pro Retina 2014, iPad Air and iPhone 4S. All with latest system updates. Only the calendar for my school events (which I use most actively) shows as duplicated, others remain normal. I followed the instructions on Apple's troubleshooting page: I checked that all relevant services were shown green on their system status page. Then I went to iCloud.com and checked whether on not the calendars and/or events were shown twice there as well. I saw two calendars for my school events by the same name, one with purple color that I remember choosing, and another with blue color that I think is the default color for new calendars, and that which I had not chosen. But check this: The events on iCloud calendars were NOT duplicated, but randomly shared by these two calendars. Meaning some of my school events were purple, some were blue. I have always used only one calendar for my school, the purple one.
Let me recap:
On all my devices: Two school calendars with duplicated events, purple and blue.
On iCloud: Two calendars, purple and blue, but no overlapping school events! Both purple and blue events with no apparent logic afaict.
Now the next step on Apple's page was to contact the telephone support. I submitted a contact request, and after a short while an american lady called me and we started trying to sort things out. I tried my best to explain to her my situation, but perhaps because things were quite complicated, and English not being my native language she might not had understood everything. She asked me if I had tried to delete one of the duplicates. No I had not, because even though on my devices the events were shown twice, on iCloud they WEREN'T, and I didn't want to take the risk of losing anything. I think it was at the moment I was explaining this to her when the line dropped, and she never called back.
Having given up on tech support I decided to try fix this on my on and went back to iCloud. I thought if I change all blue events to purple and then delete the blue calendar, I might not lose any events. So I double-click on a blue event, change the calendar back to the original purple and hit ok. I get an error saying "Couldn't save changes to [event's name]. Your changes to this event couldn't be saved because of a server error. Please try again." I report and hit ok. The event is still blue. I double-click it and try to change the event's calendar again. This time I get an error "Couldn't save changes to [event's name]. Your changes to this event couldn't be saved because it was just deleted by another device." I hit ok, and NOW I see two of the same event, one in blue and one in purple. Well at least the event is now supposedly where it should be. I repeat this annoying procedure to all blue events. Then I try to delete the wicked blue calendar, praying I won't lose anything important. Of course I get an error: "Couldn't save changes to [calendar's name]. Your changes to this calendar couldn't be saved because it was just updated by another device." So I go and try again, it worked for the events. And this time the calendar is gone!
But wait. The events of the purple calendar are now duplicated. So I only got rid of the calendar clone, but I still have events shown twice.
I'm getting way too tired to work on this any futher. Why is iCloud acting like this?

Highlight a song. Press command+r to reveal the song in Finder. Do that for the duplicate. Are they in the same location? You can also check this by getting info on a file and checking its location in the summary info, then check for the other file.
If you have a file in a folder that itunes doesn't control and then add the file to itunes it will place a cpy in the itunes folder when you add the file, leaving the original. Not sure how you ended up with two in itunes but I'd need to know the details of your preference settings.
I don't know about the rest. I have never bought music from ITMS.

Why do i have duplicate notes on my iPhone even so en settings on all is iCloud the only one check?

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This is not due to malware on your iPhone. There is no known malware capable of infecting an iPhone, unless it has been jailbroken (ie, hacked to run apps from outside the App Store).
Someone hacked your e-mail remotely. Changing your password should remove access, but the spammer can still spoof your e-mail address on the From line and continue sending messages that look like they're coming from you. There's not much you can do about that except alert your contacts and wait for the spammer to stop and move on.
Alternately, some e-mail accounts provide features that can allow a hacker continued access even after you change the password. GMail, for example, has a delegation feature that can be used to give someone else access, and hackers have been known to use this feature to maintain access across password changes. I am unfamiliar with Windows Live Email, but you should check for any similar delegation features.

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I don't understand why I have duplicate accounts appearing on my phone. Can someone tell me a quick way to fix it please?
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Kit

Hi,
If you only have one account in "Mail, Contacts, Calendars", then you are looking at something other than accounts. (There is no other way to add an email account on iPhone.)
Are you sure that you are not seeing either Mailboxes, or contact groups, perhaps, rather than accounts?
Where in Mail do you see these "accounts"?
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Why are albums that have various artists appearing as separate albums for each track?

why are albums that have various artists appearing as separate albums for each track?

Check the tags via the info panel on each system.
You may see that one version has settings for 'Disk x of y' disks.
There are other fields that should be compared too, like 'grouping'. You also need to be certain the playlist (or the Library) are sorted by the same criteria e.g. by 'album' is different to 'album by artist' etc. That can cause unexpected differences in the way it displays.
I suspect match has given you iTunes copies of the files with Apple's own metadata whilst your originals are from CD with your custom tags.

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are you syncing with MobileMe?
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I have duplicates for about half of the songs in my iTunes library. I've recently upgraded to a new PC so I'm assuming that it occurred at that point.
However, when I go in to my iTunes media files I only once copy of each album or song filed. Also if I search my PC I'm only finding one copy of each of these duplicated songs.
Duplicated songs appear to play equally well and there are no exclamation marks next to them either. I tried updating and that didn't work. If I uninstall and reinstall will it delete my iTunes media files? Will I need to back these up first?
Any advice on how to get iTunes to stop displaying the duplicates would be really appreciated.

See Grouping tracks into albums in particular the topic Missing Artist or Album not with others by same artist.
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Why do I have duplicate icons of Safari after Lion install?

I recently installed Lion and later found out that Safar, DVD Player, Photobooth, and Preview all have duplicate icons. One seems to be the older version while the other is the newer version with the new Full screen feature. Just to note, all those apps were in folders before I installed Lion but now I can't even take them out of the folder. I says I can't modify or delete them since OSX needs them. what do I do?

I had the same problem. Then I went into my applications folder and found older versions for the same app; i.e. Pages and Keynote. Once I deleted the older versions, (this does not delete anything you created from them since they would transfer to the most recent version) I went into Launchpad and saw that the old icon's were gone. Pretty simple procedure.

Why Do I have duplicates Files !?

Hi Everyone
I've messed up somewhere.
I've just upgraded to Iphone 4S got Ipad and subscribed to Icloud, within the same week.
Big Mistake!
after trying to organize some files and synchronize my Idevices , my files are a mess !!
1 - I have duplicates music files in the Iphone music Library
2 - I have duplicates apps in Itunes application folder in my mac.
This is probably partially due to the fact I moved the entire Itune folder to nother location ( needed disk space ) although I made sure to relink it via the
Itunes / Preferences / Advanced.
Can Anyone help me sort that mess out ?
Thanks
David

...This is probably partially due to the fact I moved the entire Itune folder to nother location ( needed disk space ) although I made sure to relink it via the
Itunes / Preferences / Advanced.
You're not supposed to do it that way...
The way recommended by the support doc ht1449 is that you tell iTunes where you like your media stored from now on, then tell iTunes to consolidate all the media to that new location. Lastly you get to clean up the originals left behind on the source drive.
The way that generally works best is to move the entire iTunes folder to a new location and then reconnect to it by holding down option (shift on Windows) to choose the library.
Do the duplicate entries in your library work, or are some broken? Did you reimport the media folder after moving it?
You should be able to find some useful tools for cleaning up over at http://dougscripts.com/itunes/ or there is this post which explains how to remove dupes by hand (and, less usefully for you, the genesis of a Window removal script).
tt2

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Robert J McInnes wrote:
MyFord, Mirek,
I have the same problem on iMac: some iCal entries duplicated, some triplicated, and some quadruplicated...
If I change the colour of the On My Mac Calendars, right click on calendar, select Get Info, I can identify those entries, all single.
Do the same on the iCloud Calendars, and the second and third entries on the day (Month View) change colour.
So, the iCloud entries on the iMac are duplicated...
iCal on my iPhone is OK, only a single entry...
Where do I go from here...
I suspect the first thing I should do is back up On My Mac Calendars.
What next?
Robert
Backup the On My Mac calendars (in iCal, File>Export>iCal Archive) and then delete them from iCal

I cannot send an email from my iPad 2? No problem receiving, why does this happen? Have tried the suggestions for setting up email and after doing the sync mail through iTunes receiving worked great but still cannot send? Any help would be great

I cannot send an email from my iPad 2? No problem receiving, why does this happen? Have tried the suggestions for setting up email and after doing the sync mail through iTunes receiving worked great but still cannot send? Any help would be great!

The fact that you can receive means you have a valid e mail address, and have established the connection to the incoming server, so all of that works. Since the send does not work, that means your outgoing server is rejecting whatever settings you used formthe outgoing set up. Try them again.
Google your particular isp, and ipad and many times you will find the exact settings needed for your isp. Or tell us here, and soneone else may be on the same isp. Some mail services need you to change a port, or have a unique name for the outgoing server.
Kep trying.

I am from Bangladesh. I can't log in with my gmail Apple ID. When I put in the mail and password, and press sign in, it says it has to review on iTunes. Then I am directed to opening a new account. But why should I , since I have one. Plz help :(

I am from Bangladesh. I can't log in with my gmail Apple ID. When I put in the mail and password, and press sign in, it says it has to review on iTunes. Then I am directed to opening a new account. But why should I , since I have one. Plz help

Hi Ishrak,
I apologize, I'm a bit unclear on exactly what you are trying to log into with your Apple ID, or what exactly you are seeing (alert message, directions, etc) when you try to do so. If you continue to have issues with your Apple ID, you may find one or more of the articles linked from the following page helpful:
Apple ID - Apple Support
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I would llike to know why it is that I have as of yet been able to install my purchased product CS6

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This is a user to user forum, so much of your complaining is misdirected.
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Why is it that Apple have no interest in helping I have a iPhone 4S and since updating to ISO 7.0.4 I have no wifi at all told me it's a hardware issue and I will be charged for the repair sick of it what a scam

Why is it that Apple have no interest in helping I have a iPhone 4S and since updating to ISO 7.0.4 I have no wifi at all told me it's a hardware issue and I will be charged for the repair as it's just over a yr old so I've got a 24 month contract so 12 months with a phone that is not working right I have read loads of other people that have the same problem so how can they put it down to the phone and when asked where to take it was told to google it not happy at all apple u need to sort it out never again am I buying anything for yourselfs again DISTGUSTED would be an understatement

No joy at all they just keep saying it's the phone but was fine before update and @metasolaray why should I pay for extra cover when the fault is not the phone but the update they have put out for everyone to install and I am far from being the only person as there is hundreds of people going through the same with this update and it's not been the first time they messed it up
WIFI disabled - Greyed out since iOS 7 update on iphone 4s
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sugaaarbabe
Re: WIFI disabled - Greyed out since iOS 7 update on iphone 4s
Oct 14, 2013 9:18 AM (in response to Tarrantion82)
Apple should take resonsibility for this, otherwise they will lose lots of loyal customers. I have moved away from the ipad due to expense and am now very tempted to do so away from the iphone. Selling a product that prompts an update that breaks the phone is not good.
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punkinbits
Re: WIFI disabled - Greyed out since iOS 7 update on iphone 4s
Oct 14, 2013 11:31 AM (in response to Tarrantion82)
Have had the same issues with iPhone 4S since the upgrade. No wifi button, battery draining every 8 hours with no use, phone shutting on & off for no reason at all. I gave in and tried the hair dryer method. Turned the phone off and hel d the dryer over the camera lense area for one minute. Turned the phone back on and to my shock, had wifi button back again. That was 2 days ago. Battery is lasting normal amount of time again and I can use wifi again! Hopefully this will last. I know it doesn't work for everyone but it doesn't hurt to try. Much better than spending the $200 at the Apple store, which by the way, the genius said Apple is aware of the problems but there is nothing they can do.
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Shell1331
Re: WIFI disabled - Greyed out since iOS 7 update on iphone 4s
Oct 15, 2013 1:07 AM (in response to Tarrantion82)
I have exactly the same issue, apple are phoning me this evening. I am not happy and this has really put me off using iphone. It's my first iphone and if Apple don't fix it, it will be my last iphone!!
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lin777
Re: WIFI disabled - Greyed out since iOS 7 update on iphone 4s
Oct 15, 2013 3:17 AM (in response to Shell1331)
you will be fine if you have warranty
If not Apple won't want to know
I know I've tried but they will not help.
I've email bbc watchdog the consumer
Programme to see if they can help.
GOOD LUCK
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justezenu
Re: WIFI disabled - Greyed out since iOS 7 update on iphone 4s
Oct 15, 2013 4:47 AM (in response to Tarrantion82)
Mine happened to with an update. I had nothing wrong before that.
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justezenu
Re: WIFI disabled - Greyed out since iOS 7 update on iphone 4s
Oct 15, 2013 4:50 AM (in response to lin777)
I am booked in for the same problem on Thursday. Looks like I won't have much luck.
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ljguadagnini
Re: WIFI disabled - Greyed out since iOS 7 update on iphone 4s
Oct 15, 2013 1:11 PM (in response to justezenu)
Having the same issue: iOS 7.0.2 with no WiFi / poor Battery stamina and really slow software experience when opening several options at Settings icon.
Apple care agent contacted me and we try all alternatives to isolate and detect if this is regarding a hardware problem. Of course they told me it is. Too sad. My phone is in immaculate condition.
My mother has an Iphone, my father has an Iphone, my 2 sisters have Iphones, my brother, wife and daugther... we all have Iphones. Mine's the only one with this fault (my personal experience: fail prob is 12,5% -1 out of 8).
At this point, I'm evaluating to stop buying apple products for fear that in the future the same will happen with some "premium" product that ultimately they are not.
Too sad, sorry but this is too much.
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lin777
Re: WIFI disabled - Greyed out since iOS 7 update on iphone 4s
Oct 16, 2013 5:08 AM (in response to ljguadagnini)
Join the IOS 7.02 not working club.COME ON APPLE DO SOMETHING YOU MUST B READING ALL THE
COMMENTS.ive emailed bbc watchdog consumer programme havent had reply yet.
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Jungletooth
Re: WIFI disabled - Greyed out since iOS 7 update on iphone 4s
Oct 16, 2013 6:15 AM (in response to lin777)
I got my 4s in August 2012, as an upgrade on my Vodafone contract Following the installation of IOS 7 I also experienced greying out of wifi and bluetooth. I tried various options suggested on forums however none worked. I took my phone to Vodafone who told me it was a problem they were aware of but couldn't do anything about as Apple had to deal with it. I took it to my nearest Apple store (60 miles round trip!) to be told it was not their responsibility, it was Vodafone's - something to do with consumer law! They also said I would have to pay £160 for a replacement phone as it couldn't be repaired. The 'Genius' was very cagey about it being a common problem by the way!! Back to Vodafone who said it was not their responsibility so back to Apple. This time I spoke with a Manager who told me in not so many words that it was an issue and agreed to halve the replacement cost of £160 to £80. By this time I just wanted it sorted to reluctantly paid £80 for a replacment phone. Seeing as this is CLEARLY a design fault, Apple should have replaced it free of charge. This experience just confirms what I am reading in lots of places about the Apple Company. I was going to buy an iPad but have decided not to now. I shall NOT be replacing the iphone when my contract is up. I too will be writing to BBC Watchdog.
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Jungletooth
Re: WIFI disabled - Greyed out since iOS 7 update on iphone 4s
Oct 16, 2013 6:18 AM (in response to justezenu)
justezenu wrote:
I am booked in for the same problem on Thursday. Looks like I won't have much luck.
You will probably be told that the solution is a replacement phone. Ask to speak to a Manager and insist on getting it at a lower price. I did this and got it at 50% of the usual repacement cost. Still not ideal but at least it saves you a bit of the money you shouldn't have to pay in the first place!
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lin777
Re: WIFI disabled - Greyed out since iOS 7 update on iphone 4s
Oct 16, 2013 6:58 AM (in response to Jungletooth)
Yes I had the same problem with 02 and apple no one wants to take the blame.Im glad you are writing to watchdog
As well every one must email them or write to them and I'm sure they will take up the problem for us all.
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Oct 19, 2013 7:24 AM (in response to Tarrantion82)
no
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Jerome101
Re: WIFI disabled - Greyed out since iOS 7 update on iphone 4s
Oct 19, 2013 8:30 AM (in response to ljguadagnini)
I depend alot on my Iphone and this Wifi greyed out issue is really getting to me!! This caused me to lose some business, but I'm sure I will make up for that in Andriod World. Switching back to andriod should have never switched to apple in the first place.
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Deanmort13
Re: WIFI disabled - Greyed out since iOS 7 update on iphone 4s
Oct 19, 2013 9:22 AM (in response to Tarrantion82)
4s owner in the same boat as everyone else.
I setup a service call with apple on Monday this week and was told it's quite a common hardware failure. When I asked why I should be paying for a new phone I was advised to book an appointment in store. Well I've just returned from my appointment with a "genius" who told me that when the update is installing if any component is weak when installing it will be permanently disabled. Was then told £150 for a new phone which I declined.
I've had iPhones for 4 years now but due to this issue and apple washing their hands of any responsibility it will be my last.
Disappointed that a premium product has such poor backup from the manufacturer. If it was only my phone and not thousands of others I'd have probably paid for a new phone but I'll never give apple another penny again.
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Coatezy
Re: WIFI disabled - Greyed out since iOS 7 update on iphone 4s
Oct 19, 2013 11:16 AM (in response to Tarrantion82)
Same problem with my partners iPhone 4s. Restored the device but still no luck. Going to book an appointment but it sounds like we wont have much luck as it is just over a year old.
Nexus 5 time I think for both of us.
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