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Author Topic: Find and Display all X'd missing library files?  (Read 1730 times)

rickeyjt

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Find and Display all X'd missing library files?
« on: December 22, 2009, 04:21:52 pm »

My library is a little messed up with renamed files so I have many duplicates that of course cannot be found.  There does not seem to be a way sort and select these X'd marked files so I can delete them from the library.  I want to select them so I can verify against existing library files before deleting.
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Re: Find and Display all X'd missing library files?
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2009, 04:29:57 pm »

You could sort by file location.
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Re: Find and Display all X'd missing library files?
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2009, 04:50:03 pm »

The search rule [=IsMissing([Filename])]=1 can list all missing files.

You could do the following:

- Create a smartlist that uses the rule
- Set MC to Split View (View > Split View > Show 2 Views - rows or columns)
- View the smartlist in one split and your library in the other split (in a list view mode) so that you can compare the lists.
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Re: Find and Display all X'd missing library files?
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2009, 05:32:40 pm »

Thanks for the syntax to at least list them.  I would be nice to have the selection stick and then clear out the search criteria to do what I want.
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Re: Find and Display all X'd missing library files?
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2009, 06:01:04 pm »

Alternatively you could use the search string in Quick Search (Ctrl+Q):

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Re: Find and Display all X'd missing library files?
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2009, 09:20:08 pm »

That will do!
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