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Author Topic: How to delete duplicate filenames  (Read 468 times)

icanrule

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How to delete duplicate filenames
« on: August 06, 2020, 01:58:53 pm »

I made a big booboo a long time ago and am just noticing it now.  I have 5000 duplicated files with filenames. I did this a long time ago and didn't realize it.  I changed the file location a while ago to match a different network share and forgot to change the import names even though both network shares work.  However after doing this I forgot to change the import folder so many of the files were reimported. 

What I have done is created a smartlist with the following guidelines:
- Media Type: Audio
- Playlist: is not any important playlist
- only duplicates of: filename

This has reduced the found duplicates to 4030 files.  That means I have to tell it to delete 2015 files.  These are files are exact duplicates even to the point of filename being exactly the same.  How can I tell it to only delete one of the duplicates.  I don't think it matters which one.  I would really prefer not to go through the system deleting them manually if I can avoid it. 
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JimH

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Re: How to delete duplicate filenames
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2020, 02:01:26 pm »

Compare the file locations of two duplicates.  They should be different.
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