Using Everything to help remove duplicates?
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 3:07 am
Firstly thanks for this wonderful program.
I have a problem which I suspect 'Everything' can help solve.
I have 4 portable USB drives which 'Everything' can see and index. On these drives there are literally a few thousand old mp3 tracks which were ripped from my old CD's. When I display audio only in Everything I can see that there are many many hundreds of duplicates
I would like to delete these duplicates & then consolidated one copy of each track of music to one drive. and deleting the unwanted copies. I think that everything should be up to doing this job but I don't know enough to confidently proceed with the job.
One possible problem as I see it is than many music tracks can either be in an album folder and others aren't.
I know very little about the syntax which is used to define a search. I have looked at your page about syntax & even saw that DUPE is mentioned but when I typed this in nothing was displayed.
Is there any easy solution for an inexperienced person to achieve this & if so how is this done?
Thanks in advance
I have a problem which I suspect 'Everything' can help solve.
I have 4 portable USB drives which 'Everything' can see and index. On these drives there are literally a few thousand old mp3 tracks which were ripped from my old CD's. When I display audio only in Everything I can see that there are many many hundreds of duplicates
I would like to delete these duplicates & then consolidated one copy of each track of music to one drive. and deleting the unwanted copies. I think that everything should be up to doing this job but I don't know enough to confidently proceed with the job.
One possible problem as I see it is than many music tracks can either be in an album folder and others aren't.
I know very little about the syntax which is used to define a search. I have looked at your page about syntax & even saw that DUPE is mentioned but when I typed this in nothing was displayed.
Is there any easy solution for an inexperienced person to achieve this & if so how is this done?
Thanks in advance