help anybody? rane support staff??

i knew i should have posted in the help section (or djing discussion)

might do that later

just need to give it sometime.
most people in here have probably not read this and/or know of no program yet that does what you are asking.


definitely if you want a response, slightly, faster "help" is where you want to post.

lol i kno tomato idc its been this doubled n had such a ridic amount of music that im sure i can freeze a macbook pro.

i use itunes. and or search by artist name or song title and go through them individually.

puma there are programs out there that do it for u. check this thread in a week or so hopefully more info will become available.

if it goes by file name or tag info, the tracks might not be labeled the same.
like
flo rida - low.mp4
flo rida ft t-pain - low.mp4
flo rida - get low.mp4

^meaning it might not work with a program.

thats y u get one that searches byte by byte is the term i think...
"that will search for (byte by byte) duplicates that have the same identical time (legnth of mp3 or mp4) "
i am not too familiar with this but there are duplicate searchers that dont just look by file name.

aaaah I see now.

Thanks

still every once in a while I just search by artist then type in the first few letters of the track name and see how many versions i have of the same song/video.

takes time, but you should only have to do it once.

ya puma i have been doing the same exact thing u have but well to be honest i want to enjoy my summer n just have a program do it for me.

I mean if what this it guy was telling me is true there are programs where its lik u custom design the level of depth of the double deleting...

please i was so desperate i posted on a mac forum.

I'm at a loss for a program like that. have you just googled duplicate file finder mac?

ya to no avail.

I found a program called tidy up
I would like to purchase 2 new external hard drives
On the first copy all my videos and songs (in original song structure)
keep the second blank.

Have "tidy up program" analyze first external and report to me where the doubles are. Then copy and paste the original (fancy name for 1 version of the song) onto the new external.
I do not want the first external touched, deleted from etc. <im going to use it as back up>

I looked in the manual but didn't quite get the procedure on how to use the program to accomplish this, so basically I have 3 questions:
1 when I go through the original hard drives the program will scan and find all doubles n duplicates based on a byte by byte file analysis or just based on file name <2 songs with different versions can have same filename, n be same legnth. {ex i have just dance and just dance accapella out-> would have same filename n basically identica characteristics, n one would be accapella out -> dont want it to be deleted?

2 once the program finds a duplicate. What does it do. Does it take automatic action or does it scan the whole thing and then report it back to the user and ask what action to take.

3 say I want to copy original file to another external hard drive and leave the both original and duplicates on the original hard drive that was scanned is this possible. If so please can u break it down for me I am having a bit of difficulty understanding the manual.

link to tidy up for those interested.

www.hyperbolicsoftware.com

Any help would be super nice thanks ahead of time!!!

What I do is use scratchlive then click on artist or song and make the screen smaller open up the drive an look at the location to confirm that its a duplicate I even play them to be sure I get the best one, then I delete the ones I don't need. With Scratchlive you could do it by artist first then by name of song,,, you could take it another step by typing the name to be sure you got all off that song. Very quick and cheap way to find your duplicate files

ya when u have so many songs and doubles like i do it would be nice to find an automated program to at least do it for u

Pay someone to do it.
It sucks, I know from first hand experience.

ya i feel u but unless they want to work for gummy bears i aint got shit for them lol

puma did u check that program out?

read he manual I know it seems lik it greek but i know this program has way potential

oh n btw its a free download to try just so u know. if any of the it guys on here can take a look n help me out it would b a huge help thaks.

I'll check it out. I gotta go buy some CC vids and step my game up (cross thread shit talking)

word i know i want to start producing re drums n stuff like that and do my own edits.

ok so now having given up on the tech support at tidy up v2...

I researched and found dupin an itunes duplicate finder.

So Now I am in the process of copy n pasting two hds onto my spare 2tb external,
I will then add them as a separate library into itunes,

After this I will use the program to find doubles, and do its thing"

However first I am waiting on an email back on two questions I have for them.

1. I want the program to search by all criterias it currently does and also, by file name...(not sure if that is possible though)

2. I want to know if it also does a byte by byte analysis to make sure they are exact doubles n not different versions.

Thanks for the info, I haven't checked it out yet.

kk ur welcome just trying to be a new forum mate (ya that was corny lol)

Haha

www.araxis.com

thanks shy i think am going to use dupin (though i think there program's tech support is nasty)

Hi guys,


Also You can easily resolve your problem with >>>>> DuplicateFilesDeleter

so lets try it.

Thanks