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iTunes Phantom Duplicates
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<blockquote data-quote="wigwamclan" data-source="post: 1643606" data-attributes="member: 345277"><p>Thanks for the response Slydude....the issue is I've got approx' 10,000 music files, a portion of which are duplicates and of the dupes, some are varying format, quality and source ( albums, compilation albums, live recordings etc.) .</p><p>Since I posted this I found a way to delete the phantoms without affecting the original file by right clicking the latest ( newest ) dupe and selecting to keep file. .....this removed the phantom and left the file in place to be referenced by the original listing: Result !, however, the prospect of going through this ten thousand times is not at all appealing. </p><p></p><p>Added to all of this I've just found that some of the itunes entries don't appear to exist at all; I get the message 'The song could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it? ' </p><p>I'm using iTunes 11.4 (18). Would it be possible to somehow rebuild the library from the music folder in the iTunes media folder ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wigwamclan, post: 1643606, member: 345277"] Thanks for the response Slydude....the issue is I've got approx' 10,000 music files, a portion of which are duplicates and of the dupes, some are varying format, quality and source ( albums, compilation albums, live recordings etc.) . Since I posted this I found a way to delete the phantoms without affecting the original file by right clicking the latest ( newest ) dupe and selecting to keep file. .....this removed the phantom and left the file in place to be referenced by the original listing: Result !, however, the prospect of going through this ten thousand times is not at all appealing. Added to all of this I've just found that some of the itunes entries don't appear to exist at all; I get the message 'The song could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it? ' I'm using iTunes 11.4 (18). Would it be possible to somehow rebuild the library from the music folder in the iTunes media folder ? [/QUOTE]
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