itunes duplicates

[CPL.Luke]

so I have a problem, my itunes library got screwed up and there are now two copies of about 2700 songs on my computer. This takes up a good 20 GB and I'd like to get rid of them, the problem is I can't figure out a way to get rid of them without manually going through and deleting the songs.

 

any ideas?

[ecoli]

you can delete multiple files at once you know. Just click, drag and delete.

[CPL.Luke]

yes the problem is that when I have the duplicate files arranged they are shown in one large folder, if I was to delete all of them I would lose both copies of the files, and to go through and select the ones that should be deleted would take hours.

[insane_alien]

organize the folder so you have 2(or any even number) columns. it should have organized so you have two identical colums. shift drag and delete one of the columns.

[swansont]

Been there. Try "Corral All Dupes" http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts01.php?page=2#corralitunesdupes

 

It creates a playlist of the duplicates, so you can select all and then delete. If you're using a Mac.

[CPL.Luke]

I tried that but it looks like it placed both the originals and the duplicates in there, if I selected all and deleted I'd lose about 2000 songs