What is the best way to achieve a full merge of collections from three different drives where multiple duplicates are not only likely, but abundant. I have 3 different locations where I had previously stored my music (for the kids computer, wife’s pc and ipod, my personal collection), and most of the files are the same. Any advice to achieve this task is greatly appreciated.
Merging Collections
Well it depends how many songs you have because you can obviously add songs from different drives using ‘Add Folder’ but memory limitations probably will not let you add them all. By default it works comfortably with about 10,000 songs but you can increase the memory settings as described in the help.
Assuming you have to do it in batches:
I would work on one disk at a time, loading in batches of less than 10,000 songs at a time by just selecting the relevent subfolders , i.e select all folders beginning form A-E, then move on to F -K ecetera.
Once you have done each disk, then copy over the the two now defunct locations to the final location and run Delete Duplicates in batches. Because the songs should be organized properly now, likely duplicates should get processed in the same batch.
When you mention copy over, you mean with the OS or with Jaikoz? I’m thinking of the scenario where there is a duplicate but the ‘from’ music is lower quality than the ‘to’ music, I guess the OS will just replace the high quality by the low quality. If we do it with do it with Jaikoz “save and move” or “save and copy” what will happen? thanks- wil
I confirm, just moving or saving won’t overwrite an existing one, it will append a (1) or (2)…this is nice, so after you can just run again the “delete duplicate” and that should do the trick…nice!