Re: [Apple iPod] New article: iTunes and Large Libraries: Slow, Slow, Slow

You are not the only one baffled by my irresponsible deleting...I thought that the copies I was deleting were just that and that wasn't true. I had to use a program to undelete those files and lost count of how many songs had been saved so I ended up with duplicates and then uploaded the entire library of songs twice. Every time I have tried to delete copies, the originals get deleted too. I have never been able to get rid of the dups, sigh. I haven't found a program that will delete the dups for me yet so I'm not touching the music on my external. I don't have a burner on my laptop so I'm stuck with dups, lol.

Rebecca

----- Original Message -----
From: Otto Nikolaus
To: AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Apple iPod] New article: iTunes and Large Libraries: Slow, Slow, Slow

Rebecca,

How is it possible to delete all your music with only a single press
of Delete? Whether in iTunes itself or in Win Explorer, you would have
to follow that with several further actions.

Why would you have duplicates on your backup? How are you doing the
copies? Are you merging your library into the same backup folder each
time? (I can see why you would have at least 2 separate copies, and in
fact recommend it.)

I ask only to help, not to criticise. :)

Otto

On 29/01/2008, Rebecca <ladyvaderkin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was just complaining about that last night. I have a large library at the moment, I lost all my music in a bizarre deletion (I hit delete on accident, lol) and now have tons of duplicates from multiple copies because of duplicates on my external hard drive. Once I get done there will be under 20 gigs of music I believe but as for now it is 149 gigs. Since there are so many files in iTunes it drags my computer down while using iTunes. It can take forever to get started and working on the files. It uses the most memory than any other program and when I'm finished with it, I usually have to restart my computer (Windows Xp) to be able to use my computer at it's normal speed.

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