Hello everyone. New member here.
About four years ago, I downloaded iTunes onto my desktop to store and manage my music, as I acquired my first iPod.
About two years ago, I procured a laptop and an external hard drive; and copied my music library and data across to the laptop – so I could manage my iTunes and iPod on EITHER the desktop or the laptop.
The two libraries became a little out of sync, as I ended up favouring the laptop.
This wasn’t an issue because I managed the music using the external harddrive.
This then crashed and I lost the data, including a few albums that I had downloaded from iTunes straight onto the external harddrive; which are now lost.
ANYWAY.
I now have a new laptop. I have downloaded iTunes and copied my music library onto a NEW external harddrive.
Inside the new external harddrive, I have a “Back-Up Copies” folder that is most likely those files that I have on both the OLD laptop and the OLD desktop.
THE PROBLEM:
The new iTunes on the NEW laptop has automatically synched and read both the normal album data, and the ‘Back-Up Copies’ folder – creating duplicates.
I have since gone into the NEW laptop harddrive and moved the ‘Back-Up Copies’ folder OUT of the iTunes music folder.
I now have around 4,000 duplicates, where one track name is correct, and in the right place, and can be played from iTunes; and the other “cannot be found” (b because I moved the ‘Back-Up Copies’ folder out of iTunes Music).
I can see all the duplicates by using the “Show Duplicates” function in iTunes.
Is there a quicker, more convenient way of deleting the duplicates rather than double clicking EACH AND EVERY song to identify whether it’s the right one, or the one that “cannot be found” anymore (and indicated by the exclamation mark)?
About four years ago, I downloaded iTunes onto my desktop to store and manage my music, as I acquired my first iPod.
About two years ago, I procured a laptop and an external hard drive; and copied my music library and data across to the laptop – so I could manage my iTunes and iPod on EITHER the desktop or the laptop.
The two libraries became a little out of sync, as I ended up favouring the laptop.
This wasn’t an issue because I managed the music using the external harddrive.
This then crashed and I lost the data, including a few albums that I had downloaded from iTunes straight onto the external harddrive; which are now lost.
ANYWAY.
I now have a new laptop. I have downloaded iTunes and copied my music library onto a NEW external harddrive.
Inside the new external harddrive, I have a “Back-Up Copies” folder that is most likely those files that I have on both the OLD laptop and the OLD desktop.
THE PROBLEM:
The new iTunes on the NEW laptop has automatically synched and read both the normal album data, and the ‘Back-Up Copies’ folder – creating duplicates.
I have since gone into the NEW laptop harddrive and moved the ‘Back-Up Copies’ folder OUT of the iTunes music folder.
I now have around 4,000 duplicates, where one track name is correct, and in the right place, and can be played from iTunes; and the other “cannot be found” (b because I moved the ‘Back-Up Copies’ folder out of iTunes Music).
I can see all the duplicates by using the “Show Duplicates” function in iTunes.
Is there a quicker, more convenient way of deleting the duplicates rather than double clicking EACH AND EVERY song to identify whether it’s the right one, or the one that “cannot be found” anymore (and indicated by the exclamation mark)?
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