I have a bunch of .m4a files that I recorded on my iPhone voicememo, but there are more than 20 copies for the same one for some reason. How can I delete every thing except one copy, without having to tediously delete them manually by clicking on 2nd one, SHIFT, clicking on the last one?
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macOS How to efficiently delete duplicate files
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Depends on how many you have?
You could search in the voice memo folder for all audio files or just '*.m4a'. Then delete the ones that have the number in the brackets (like "Date Time (#).m4a"). I'd check them before deleting them.
Alternatively, you could just drag out the ones you want to keep to the desktop and then delete the whole folder with the dupes.
You could search in the voice memo folder for all audio files or just '*.m4a'. Then delete the ones that have the number in the brackets (like "Date Time (#).m4a"). I'd check them before deleting them.
Alternatively, you could just drag out the ones you want to keep to the desktop and then delete the whole folder with the dupes.
