Need help finding and deleting samples

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  1. tfmc369

    tfmc369 Member

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    I have all of my loops and samples that I collected over many years on an external HDD. 750k + total so far.
    I want to ""thin out the herd" so to speak"
    I have been using loopcloud for a while as well as sononym.
    But recently I did a search for "Kicks/one shots" in loopcloud and came up with over 10,000!
    I found that I rarely use drum one-shots on any of my projects
    and I want to get rid of all the drum files at once.
    I tried selecting all of them and was successful, but it won't let me delete them.
    I want to keep the drum loops, and the other instrument one-shots I have,
    It would take me weeks to go through the 1.5 Tb and 40k+ folders and delete them manually.
    So my question is, What is the easiest and quickest way to do this?
    Sorry, I forgot to add that I am using Win10.
    thank you
     
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  3. BEAT16

    BEAT16 Audiosexual

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    Windows? I would just type in File Explorer the term "*.Kicks or *.Snare" in the search and let Windows search and delete the results.

    2022-08-27_155200.jpg Star point preceding *.kicks
     
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    I tried that, but the search included loops as well. thanx
     
  6. tfmc369

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    I think I may have stumbled on how to do it using Sononym.
    I clicked on one-shots and then clicked on the kicks tab and it brought up all of my kick one-shots, almost 10k!
    Then I highlighted them all and hit delete. It took a while, but then they were all gone.
    I saw my total sample # drop from 754k to 744k. I did it with all the other tabs and dropped my sample count down to 728k!
    Well, at least it's a start.
    Now I am doing another rescan HDD to see if I missed anything, that takes a while.
    I will update the post when done.
    Thanx again.
     
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    This problem knows many, best rested every weekend 1-2 hours take time and delete manually.
    Do not forget to defragment.
     
  8. curtified

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    My fave toold is TidyUp 4... on mac.. but its a good way of finding moving deleting samples while retaining folder structure
     
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