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An excellent script for removing duplicate files from an iTunes library

After shifting some media around I recently found myself with a lot of duplicate files in my iTunes library. iTunes’ “Show Duplicates” feature is a nice thought but doesn’t come near being useful in the case of thousands of duplicates — not only is the heuristic sophomoric, there is no way to select “every other” [...]

Backup script from Jon Mills

ibiblio colleague and systems guru John Mills writes: So, I remember you had a cute backup script for OS X. Well I have an external USB drive, which I don’t want active all the time. My script runs from a cronjob, and automatically mounts and unmounts the external drive, and uses rsync to copy the [...]