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Recent PC convert in deep HD trouble
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<blockquote data-quote="NanoBite" data-source="post: 405894" data-attributes="member: 13565"><p>I've run into trouble randomly deleting dupes in iTunes. </p><p></p><p>After deleting some dupes I realised that I was left with incomplete alias' and iTunes couldn't find the originals as they had been either moved or deleted earlier.</p><p></p><p>What I'd taken as duplicated files were really a combination of a playable file and a broken alias. If I'd tried to play both, iTunes would have placed an exclamation mark next to the orphaned link. I felt like a dupe!</p><p></p><p>When I click on Show Duplicates, I check to see that both copies actually play, check that the one I want to save is stored in the iTunes Music Folder and the copy I want to keep has all the data complete. It's only then that I go ahead and delete the unwanted dupe.</p><p></p><p>So, after going to all this trouble to ensure my Library is complete, a Remove Duplicate option would be the equivalent of my pressing the Delete button.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NanoBite, post: 405894, member: 13565"] I've run into trouble randomly deleting dupes in iTunes. After deleting some dupes I realised that I was left with incomplete alias' and iTunes couldn't find the originals as they had been either moved or deleted earlier. What I'd taken as duplicated files were really a combination of a playable file and a broken alias. If I'd tried to play both, iTunes would have placed an exclamation mark next to the orphaned link. I felt like a dupe! When I click on Show Duplicates, I check to see that both copies actually play, check that the one I want to save is stored in the iTunes Music Folder and the copy I want to keep has all the data complete. It's only then that I go ahead and delete the unwanted dupe. So, after going to all this trouble to ensure my Library is complete, a Remove Duplicate option would be the equivalent of my pressing the Delete button. [/QUOTE]
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