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Mashkai · 08-31-2014, 12:04 PM

I hope this is in the right place:/

So, I used Find Duplicates and I had roughly 7k duplicates. (Not a s'prise, really) After an hour or so of clicking on individual books and deleting, I thought maybe I could make it a bit easier. I did a binary search and checked "When doing a binary compare, automatically remove duplicate formats" thinking this would make my life much easier. Unfortunately, now I have the same problem as I did to begin with, I am back to lengthy time spent clicking on each individual book. The main difference being that half of them are empty folders so I must slow down a bit further to pay attention and make sure I am deleting the empty folder rather than the one containing an ebook. Is there a faster or better way to do this? Or at least a way to find and remove the now empty file folders?

-so frustrated-

Edit: I found the solution and having spent -hours- on this now feel like an idiot for not seeing it sooner:/

08-31-2014, 12:04 PM	#507
Mashkai Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2014 Device: none	Find Duplicates - Help I hope this is in the right place:/ So, I used Find Duplicates and I had roughly 7k duplicates. (Not a s'prise, really) After an hour or so of clicking on individual books and deleting, I thought maybe I could make it a bit easier. I did a binary search and checked "When doing a binary compare, automatically remove duplicate formats" thinking this would make my life much easier. Unfortunately, now I have the same problem as I did to begin with, I am back to lengthy time spent clicking on each individual book. The main difference being that half of them are empty folders so I must slow down a bit further to pay attention and make sure I am deleting the empty folder rather than the one containing an ebook. Is there a faster or better way to do this? Or at least a way to find and remove the now empty file folders? -so frustrated- Edit: I found the solution and having spent -hours- on this now feel like an idiot for not seeing it sooner:/ Last edited by Mashkai; 08-31-2014 at 12:06 PM.