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Title: search for duplicate files?
Post by: texaganian on December 30, 2010, 12:18:55 pm

I have a large number of duplicate files which were created by Rename, Move & Copy files. They all end in (#).mp3, where # is a digit (or digits).

Searching for ).mp3 doesn't work because ) is a special character. Escaping it with a / or \ doesn't help.

Is there any way to generate a list of these files so I can delete them?

Title: Re: search for duplicate files?
Post by: joh on December 30, 2010, 01:56:36 pm

Using the Search Wizard and entering:

Filename contains ).mp3

should accomplish what you want (unless you have other files with filename ending with ).mp3

Title: Re: search for duplicate files?
Post by: texaganian on December 31, 2010, 07:05:07 am

Thank you. That did the trick (and let me purge 15GB of dupes!).

I'm not a wizard sort of guy, so wouldn't have found this. And the result of the wizard showed me the way to get it with text entry... [Filename]="/).mp3".

I had tried quoting the search argument and escaping the right paren, but not in combination. Doh!