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[JIMV]

A nasty Trojan killed my primary desktop music system. Fortunately I had all my music files backed up to an external hard drive. I copied those music files to my other laptop with MC17 on it and then imported the library. Now I have 800+ files with at least 200 of them being duplicates of files already in the PC.

Is there a way to automatically scan and remove duplicate files from a library?

[Matt]

The answer depends on if the duplicates are on the hard drive or just in the library.

If the duplicates are just in the library and pointing to missing files, run Auto-Import and tell it to fix broken links.

If the duplicates are actually on disk, you can use Smartlists to help you out.

As a starting point, create a new Smartlist, then use the Import / Export button and enter this:
[Media Type]=[Audio] ~dup=[Album],[Artist],[Name] ~nodup=[Album],[Artist],[Name]

That first gets a list of possible duplicates, then removes all but one of the copies.  You can delete everything in it.  Then refresh.  It should be empty once you have no duplicates.

[Peter_T]

Thanks, that's so easy.   

[nishadhasan]

You should try Duplicate Filter. You can find it here http://www.duplicatefilter.com It works both on windows and mac. It's really easy to use. Just try once.