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sirshambling

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An easy way to identify "missing" files?
« on: February 07, 2011, 05:19:24 pm »
I know you can tell the missing files by the yellow icon but is there any way to sort files so that all the missing ones are on top? Or to set up a smartlist that will identify them?

Going through a large library to find them takes hours.

TIA. John.
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Re: An easy way to identify "missing" files?
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2011, 06:37:08 pm »
create a smartlist and in the rules add the following

Filename is []
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Re: An easy way to identify "missing" files?
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2011, 06:38:38 pm »
Or make this smartlist (it'll be slow, because it checks each link on disk):
[=IsMissing()]=[1]

Be careful because some things like a DVD can show up as missing, because by design they use special filenames that aren't on the file system.
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Re: An easy way to identify "missing" files?
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2011, 04:46:31 am »
Thanks very much guys - I'll try it right now.
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Re: An easy way to identify "missing" files?
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2011, 11:56:26 am »
Worked a treat - thanks again. John.
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