OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: How To Find And Remove Duplicate Files
Jun 10, 2012How do I find and remove duplicate files? I must have a lot because I have no space left.
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ITunes :: Find And Remove Duplicate Items In Library
May 18, 2012I use Google's Google Play and I made the mistake of Downloading my Library from the Google play Music Manager in my (early 2011) MacBook Pro's System Preferences after I already had my music library in iTunes so now I have a duplicate of every single song and not sure how to delete them. I tried using the the advice offered on here where I sort all music based on DATE but every song has the same date and about the same time so that won't work for me. Other then downloading a paid program I'm not sure what my options here are. That being said, let me know if anyone know what options other then paying for a program to do this for me or worse... having me click on every single duplicate song individually until I finish?Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
ITunes :: Find And Remove Duplicate Items In Library?
Jun 16, 2012Not sure how the duplicate songs were created in my iTunes on my iPad, but I am looking for a way to select all the duplicates and delete them.Â
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iPad (3rd gen) Wi-Fi, iOS 5.1.1
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Easily Delete Duplicate Files In Old Time Machine Archives?
Apr 7, 2012I have multiple older Time Machine archives from different Macs that I have been going through manually and picking files out and copying them to another drive file by file. I'm running into massive quantities of duplicate files and the biggest problem is muliple iphoto pictures including the same picture in different sizes.Â
I wanted to give up and just throw the whole Time Machine archive onto another disk so I could format the one it was on and use it for something else. But I got a message reading, "The backup can’t be copied because the backup volume doesn’t have ownership enabled." So I went to manually copy each "Macintosh HD" folder for each date into it's their own respective folders. It worked but required my password for each folder and each of the 19 folders were all ~75GB. Which is impossible because all of that data was on a 500GB drive.Â
Mac Pro :: How To Remove Duplicate Files
May 23, 2012I am trying to remove duplicate files and is there a reliable shareware that I can use?Â
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.1.1
Applications :: Automator - How To Remove Duplicate Files
Jan 3, 2011Unlike Windows, this damn-ded MacOS X won't ask what to do when moving several items with the same name to a single location. In Vista and 7, it asks if you want to replace all similarly named items with a single of the items or if you want to put all of the similarly named items in the new location and append an annotation at the end of the file name. (I think Windows appends "Copy #" to duplicates) So, I'm left with, "File, File 2, File 3, file 4" in a single folder. I need an Automator action to sort this out and simply move or delete the duplicates.
The simplest action I can think is: Ask for files>get files>select files with similar filenames, neglecting the last characters if they are numerals>reference the size (with accuracy of 1 byte) of selected files>label files of the same size red>select red files>move red files to a selected folder. How can I get these sort of tools? I need a measuring action and another action that will compare file names...
MacBook Pro :: App That Remove Duplicate Files On Computer?
May 23, 2012I would like to remove duplicate files that are on my computer and I believe that there is an application for this? Also, I want to remove Parallels desktop and all its associated files and programs. Basically, I am cleaning up so I can add photos and music. I want to make sure that when a program is removed all it "hidden" files are also removed.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X :: How To Find Duplicate Files
Dec 12, 2010which is the best app so that one can find duplicate files and also to have the ability to see previews to be able to compare?
View 6 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Remove Files From My Startup Disk?
May 24, 2012How do I remove files from my startup disk?
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
OS X V10.5 Leopard :: How To Remove Duplicate Applications From MacBook
Mar 3, 2012How to remove duplicate applications from my MacBook
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Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.3)
Software :: What Program Do You Use To Find Duplicate Files?
Nov 3, 2007I found this program called Tidy UP! and it appears to be very good. But before I go through and starting massive deletions, I wanted some feedback as to what programs people use to find and delete their oldest duplicate files.
I was on a Plane organizing my files and evidently never sync'd back up fully from the hotel before getting back home and using my iMac. So now I have a big mess to clean up.
Applications :: Program That Can Find Duplicate Files?
Jan 7, 2009I have a program that can find duplicate files. What my questions is if I get an email from someone and then I forward it to someone now I have a duplicate one in my inbox and another in my sent. If I delete the one in my sent then when I open it the attachment will not show. Is there a way for it to just store the file once and then create an alias pointing to the main file.
Another example: If I attach a photo from iPhoto to an email there again is another duplicate. I would much rather Mail send the photo and create an alias to the original photo in iPhoto thus creating no duplicates.
I hope that was not confusing.
I want a program that will find duplicates and then keep 1 and create alias's for the one's deleted.
I know this is not all cases of duplicate files but mainly my Mail has way to many duplicates.
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Find And Delete Duplicate Files?
May 22, 2012I know that I have many duplicate downloads (particularly Adobe Reader Files) that I would like to trash. Is there an easier way to find duplicates other than opening them all and comparing them?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Applications :: Program To Find And Delete Duplicate Files?
Sep 20, 2007Since I have switched from windows I have many duplicate files and even triplicate files! I was told (from a Mac Genius ) that leopard won't let you look at your picture files. So I want to rid the excess and save some hard drive space.
View 8 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Cannot Find Backed Up Files
Mar 31, 2012I was one of the unlucky ones to get this Trojan bug so decided to erase my disk and reload the system. In doing so, I did a lot of dragging from the backup to the new system not knowing how to restore and I did not want to bring this bug with the restore. So, here are my issues so far I am unable to resolve. Â
Address Book and Calendar are empty and I am unable to find the back up files to re-load them.Â
Also in Safari I am unable to find my bookmarks. Is there a way to find these files or am I out of luck?Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5,owc 500 GB ex
Applications :: Software To Find Duplicate Audio And Image Files?
Apr 27, 2009I am moving over to OSX on my iMac to manage my audio and image files. Right now I have them spread over several external hard drives on my PC. I have found a good program that does a very good job of identifying duplicates in both categories. They are called Audio Comparer and Video Comparer. Right now they only have windows versions. I am also looking at DupGuru Picture and Music editions which just happen to have a version for each platform. There is also Deep which I will try.
Does anyone have any good recommendations for Mac software that can perform these functions on several external hard drives? I do not plan to use iPhoto (Photoshop, Lightroom, and Lightzone) and obviously will be using iTunes but I desperately need to find and delete all the duplicate files before bringing into iTunes. I know iTunes can locate duplicate file, but names of them may be different since they have been in several Windows programs and formats (MP3, Flac, Apple Lossless....)
I could do this on the PC, but if I can avoid purchasing software that I will not use again (PC) versus doing it on the Mac and having the software for later use is my goal.
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Find And Delete Invisible Files?
Feb 2, 2012myphotobook is likely to install invisble files to store photos albums.
How can I find these invisble files to delete them.
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Find The Mac Mail Alert Sound Files On The Computer?
May 16, 2012I want to find the sound files because I want to convert them to wav to use as mail alert sounds for Thunderbird which I use instead of Mail, and don't know where to find the files. Â
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MBA v 3.2, 256GB SSD, 2.13GHz, 4GB, Other OS, 10.6.8
OS X V10.5 Leopard :: Easy Way To Eliminate Duplicate Files?
Apr 28, 2012My husband has unwittingly made several duplicates of his 200 or so Quicktime movie files. Is there an easy way to eliminate all the duplicates, instead of doing it one by on?
Info:MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Duplicate Emails In Mail?
Mar 20, 2012I am getting duplicate emails on my IMAC over and over again the same mail message in Mail?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Merge / Delete Duplicate Contacts In Outlook 2011 MAC
Jun 17, 2012I have too many duplicates contact in outlook 2011 MAC, how to remove/merge them.Â
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iPad 2, iOS 5.1
Applications :: Manually Remove Each Duplicate?
Dec 28, 2009I am going to manually remove each duplicate, but my ? is when you click on show duplicates...is that every copy of that song in itunes or is there still another copy that isn't showing when you select this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedITunes :: Remove Duplicate Items From Library?
May 17, 2012Trying to remove duplicate items from iTunes library and all the files have same added date since the whole library was moved from another computer.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3), removing duplicate items
MacBook Pro :: How To Remove Duplicate Icons From Launchpad
Jun 9, 2012How do I remove duplicate icons from Launchpad?
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MacPro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
ITunes :: Remove Duplicate Items In Its Library?
Jun 28, 2012If I press "command" "A" and than "command" "delete", will it erase only the duplicates and keep the one original file? Or will this delete the duplicate and the song I wish to keep?
Info:Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X Mavericks :: How To Remove Duplicate POP Messages In Mail
Dec 10, 2014My set up is that I use Mail with 5 separate accounts, downloading all messages using POP. I keep ALL my mail (even the trash) so that I have a permanent record of all conversations, going back more than 10 years - this is about 250,000 emails in around 250 subfolders. I'm running the latest version of Mavericks on a 2010 MBP. I have no intention of moving to IMAP - I need to keep a local archive of all my mail.Â
A few months ago I was having problems with Mail being very slow to load and search emails. I decided to rebuild the mailboxes, but afterwards discovered that thousands of messages in the inbox of one of my accounts (and some of the sub-folders) had disappeared. Once I realised I tried to go back to a recent Time Machine back up, but, for whatever reason, that part of the back up hadn't worked properly and I was unable to recover the previous status. I left it while I decided what to do, and had time to deal with it...Â
The last 2 years worth of emails on that account were still archived on gmail, so last week I decided to try redownloading the whole lot (something like 72,000 messages), and then planned to use one of the scripts I was aware of to remove the duplicates to the trash, and then remove any duplicates in the trash forever. That ought to mean I at least had an archive of the last two years of missing messages, even if I had no record of which ones had been flagged or replied to, etc.Â
The downloading took about 24 hours to complete, and I now have almost 70,000 messages in the inbox of that account. I also rebuilt all the folders again, which doesn't seem to have resulted in any further loss of messages as far as I can tell. However, I hadn't figured on two things:Â
1. Mail 'hides' duplicate messages, meaning that all of the messages I've downloaded are showing as unread, and I can't differentiate the ones I already had in my Inbox, and the new downloads. When I click on those apparently unread messages I can see if they have been replied to or forwarded, etc, but there's no obvious way for me to remove the ones I have already dealt with to the trash, without going through them all manually, which is clearly impossible.Â
2. The scripts I'd found for removing duplicates don't work. Andreas Amann's Remove Duplicates script doesn't work under Mavericks, and he has abandoned the project. I've also tried the remove-duplicate-messages.scpt [URL] ...., and while it *sometimes* works on individual subfolders on my Mac (but as far as I can tell removes the duplicate in that folder, rather than the newly downloaded version), mostly it doesn't work at all - it creates a 'Remove Duplicate Messages' folder on my desktop, a log inside it and a folder for removed messages, but nothing appears in the duplicates folder.Â
So, I'm left in a position where I have 70,000 apparently unread messages in my Inbox, a massively bloated Mail library (which has pretty much doubled in size, because of the 'hidden' messages), a slow and unresponsive Mail program. I've come to the conclusion that there must be some corrupted email somewhere, which probably caused the original email haemorrhage, and may still be causing the inability to remove duplicates. Mail is so slow as to be almost unuseable.Â
I figure I have a number of options:Â
1. I could live with the situation and just archive most of the Mail in my inbox, with the side effect that there will be a bunch of messages I have never replied to that are missed.Â
2. I could abandon the last week's efforts and revert to the version of Mail I was using a week ago, and then redownload the recent emails from my various accounts. That would still leave me without those thousands of emails I lost on my local machine.Â
3. I could find another way to deal with this. Can I get the remove duplicates script working? Should I revert to the version of Mail from a week ago, download ALL the messages again, but do it in a way that allows me to find the duplicates and remove them? Should I move to another email program altogether (which would presumably be massively disruptive to my work!)Â
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
MacBook Pro :: How To Remove Duplicate Groups In Contacts On 10.9.4
Aug 27, 2014how to remove duplicate groups in contacts on macbook pro 10.9.4
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MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
ITunes For Mac :: How To Remove Duplicate Subscriptions In Podcasts
Jun 21, 2014I created a bit of a mess with iTunes 11 while migrating from Windows to Mac OS. Somehow I have duplicate subscriptions in the "My Podcasts" view. When I look at them, they don't have proper icons and the subscript setting is turned off (i.e. unsubscribed ). The listing that has an icon and has an episode count is working fine. Also, The duplicate subscription entries do not appear in the "list" podcast view. I tried using "Edit->delete" from the iTunes menu to delete them, but nothing happens.Â
Is there a way to get rid of these duplicate entries?Â
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Itunes 11.2.2 for Mac running on Mac OS X 10.9.3
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: How To Remove Malware From Mac
Apr 19, 2012Issues with Safari & Chrome.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: How To Remove IWork 06 And 08
May 26, 2012I am running the latest version of Snow Leopard on a 2006/7 MacBook Pro. After teaching myself how to use a mac, and how to maintain it, I wish to God I could go back and do full, clean installs of each OS upgrade...alas, hindsight is always 20/20. But thats for another time. My immediate issue is disk space: Using Space Gremlin & browsing my HD I realized I have 3 massive iwork libraries/files/folders. iwork '06, '08, '09. Im certain I dont require all 3 considering I only use most current version (however the previous two take up gigabytes of space). Is there a safe way to delete them? Will the papers written, work saved from '06-on still be able to be opened using the most current version? If so, I wonder why Apple doesnt just delete the old version each time you upgrade?
I have also deleted all podcasts and photos after moving them to an external, yet Im certain that theres gotta be a way to 1) combine my itunes libraries from my two user accounts (I used the same login on both), but have had issues combining songs on my most used account so I can delete the other library for space. After accomplishing that feat I would then like to learn a method to run my itunes and iphoto libraries from my external HD; if so, could someone please help me learn how to do so seamlessly?
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MacBook Pro 15in & iPOD Touch 4G, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
