Windows 10: duplicate music files

In the past 3 weeks duplicate music files have been appearing in my music library, random filename, same title, description, album etc. but no 5th tab digital signature. And they can't be deleted, moved or edited. They seem to like company. They gather in the public music folder and gradually relocate the originals into the public music folder alongside them. Any suggestions would be very welcome, thank you.

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Duplicate Music/Photos files on my SD Card

After unsuccessfully trying every other suggested workaround for this issue, the following workaround finally fixed the problem on two wp8 devices for me (Samsung Ativ S and Nokia Lumina 520):

• On wp8 phone, in “Xbox Music + Videos” app go to Settings and Initially turn off both
  “Connect with Xbox Music” and “Xbox Music cloud collection” options. You can turn on those two options at end of this procedure if desired wih no negative side effects.
  
• Transfer the music files to your phone using “Windows Phone for desktop”
  app. I copied all the music that I wanted on my phone, which was a combination of DRM-free personally-owned .mp3 files and Xbox Music Pass DRM-protected .wma files (subscription rental music) to the wp8 phone using
  ‘Windows Phone for desktop’ app. At the end of this process, I had duplicates (or multiple instances) of almost every song in my library. The next step is the one that fixes the problem.
  
• All the credit for this steps goes to David at Labs 7: please follow the exact steps on this page:
  
  http://7labs.heypub.com/mobile/fix-media-library-duplicates-windows-phone-8.html
  
• After following those steps, your phone needs some time (based on your library size) to rebuild its music library file, so give it time until your music starts re-appearing in the
  Xbox Music + Videos app. It took about 1 minute for my 1,800 song library
  
• If you wish, now you can turn on both “Connect with Xbox Music” and
  “Xbox Music cloud collection” options in Settings section in “Xbox Music + Videos” if you’d like to take advantage of those features, I have them both on and there is no duplication as the result of it.

 

Duplicate files of music , video & images

Thanks for your reply , but give me proper solution , right now i have duplicate images (double or triple) if delete any one of duplicates all files gets deleted, in case of music same thing happens . Please give me proper suggestion regarding how to
refresh all media files (photos, music & videos) on my phone without formating.

 

Finding duplicate files

Hey hey,

During the years the backups have just accumulated in random places, essentially, and I would like to clean up. Is there a program that can search for duplicate files? And by that I mean identical files. I tried dupeGuru, but that somehow found ... all files to be identical I guess? Like how a bunch of jpg's with different names, sizes and locations being marked 100% identical, or how a bunch of xls-files with completely different everything also were 100% matches with each other. I don't need any fancy functions, just a list of the files that share the name and filesize and created/last write dates.