Finding and Deleting

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imcal007
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Finding and Deleting

Post by imcal007 »

Ive just discovered a few weeks ago i dragged hundreds of folders full of flac files into a folder containing folders of flac files, when windows asked if i wanted to replace i said no, all said and done...

However some folders have the same flac file twice etc (a slightly different name)

so a folder can look like this folder name Wham! - 1986 - The Final



Wham! - 1986 - The Final (cover)
Wham! - 1986 - The Final (log)

Wham! - 01 - Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) (6.41)
Wham! - 02 - Young Guns (Go For It) (5.11)
Wham! - 02 - Young Guns (5.11)
Wham! - 03 - Bad Boys (3.19)

etc

is there anyway of finding the folders that have those extra flac files located in them so i can drag and move them elsewhere to look at


thanks for any help , i really do appreciate it.
void
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Re: Finding and Deleting

Post by void »

With Everything 1.5, search for:

regex:^([^(]*)(\(|\.[a-z]*$) addcolumn:regmatch1 dupe:regmatch1


This will show duplicated filenames before the first (
This won't work if there's a ( or ) in the album name, album artist or title.
imcal007
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Joined: Fri Feb 27, 2015 7:17 am

Re: Finding and Deleting

Post by imcal007 »

Thanks for the quick reply i will test it out.
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