island sjoa
So here's my problem I have a total of four external hard drives that total up to 5 1/2 terabytes and the two main ones I use for my music has gotten out of control. 1 is a 3tb and the other is 1tb. I rcently did a iTunes scan on the 3tb which is my back up hard drive and it said I had 70thousand duplicates and my 1tb also says I have like 30k dupilcates..... FML.... So I need a little help if any of you guys have used either one of these programs. I'm on a Mac Pro I have tidy up but it seams to me that its not reading some tracks properly. FYI I don't do video yet so their just mp3's. And some of my tracks or written differently from where I buy my music from. Since on of my fellow dj's was nice in enough to give me some tracks when I started off djing. So say for example the track reads “shots by lmfao_ Bpm 122_ dirty" and then I have the original from the album that reads “shots by lmfao ft. Lil Jon Bpm 100" when I get back the search with tidy up it reads that this is a duplicate. I will admit I'm no computer wiz but I'm sure enough not stupid, But does any one have a suggestion how I can clean up my libarys? Cuz unfortuney those two drives and the others read that they are 95% full I know for a fact that I may have about 50 thousand tracks. And I believe I have also add personal documents by accident so if their is any advice it would greatly appreciated. And I tried to go thru one at a time ( screw that) cuz some of them have became dead tracks cuz I use 2 drives so the file is on one of them and a dup dead track is on the other.
So any advice. I dont want to loose any of the tracks that i downloaded from the record pool, that i pay cor cuz its only a one time download.... And it just dawned on me as I'm writing this I think time machine has a lot to do with this!!
So any advice. I dont want to loose any of the tracks that i downloaded from the record pool, that i pay cor cuz its only a one time download.... And it just dawned on me as I'm writing this I think time machine has a lot to do with this!!
Inviato Wed 31 Oct 12 @ 5:47 am
island sjoa
Nobody here has any good advice on how to tackle this project?
Inviato Thu 01 Nov 12 @ 1:01 am
frd1963
I have never found a 100% dependable way to ensure that I only delete all actual duplicates without risking unwanted loss.
However, since you have already used the iTunes 'search duplicates' feature, you might as well use it to get rid of what it finds as duplicates. It goes by title and artist, not filename, and you can tell it to only find exact duplicates, just to be safe. You also (presumably) have the benefit of your iTunes library index being updated automatically.
See the info here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2905
Good luck,
-Frd
However, since you have already used the iTunes 'search duplicates' feature, you might as well use it to get rid of what it finds as duplicates. It goes by title and artist, not filename, and you can tell it to only find exact duplicates, just to be safe. You also (presumably) have the benefit of your iTunes library index being updated automatically.
See the info here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2905
Good luck,
-Frd
Inviato Thu 01 Nov 12 @ 6:26 am
island sjoa
frd1963 wrote :
I have never found a 100% dependable way to ensure that I only delete all actual duplicates without risking unwanted loss.
However, since you have already used the iTunes 'search duplicates' feature, you might as well use it to get rid of what it finds as duplicates. It goes by title and artist, not filename, and you can tell it to only find exact duplicates, just to be safe. You also (presumably) have the benefit of your iTunes library index being updated automatically.
See the info here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2905
Good luck,
-Frd
However, since you have already used the iTunes 'search duplicates' feature, you might as well use it to get rid of what it finds as duplicates. It goes by title and artist, not filename, and you can tell it to only find exact duplicates, just to be safe. You also (presumably) have the benefit of your iTunes library index being updated automatically.
See the info here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2905
Good luck,
-Frd
Thanks ill try that method again cuz the genius tech said at apple it shows all of them and doesn't leave a track out ( so if theirs dup and you just erased it and already cleaned out the trash then its gone) that can explain why I can't find some songs cuz I did that once before display all duplicates and I just erased all of it with out reading up on really how to use that feature in iTunes!!! But it's probably the best one out of all these programs.
Inviato Fri 02 Nov 12 @ 6:25 am