Get-Childitem G:\MusicPile –exclude *.mp3 –recurse | Remove-ItemĪhhhhh…much better. Quickly scanning the output and seeing no random MP3 files in there, I “released the Kraken”: Get-Childitem G:\MusicPile –exclude *.mp3 –recurse | Remove-Item –whatif Get-Childitem G:\MusicPile –exclude *.mp3 –recurse So for this, I called up my “Sonic Screwdriver” of utilities: Windows PowerShell.įirst find me all of the files that are not MP3: To be quite honest, the only thing I cared about were MP3 files. There were old JPG files and INI files from older audio players. My first challenge was getting rid of all the rubbish. So I decided to dump it all to an external 500 GB USB 3.0 drive and have at it. So the result was MP3s from that computer had some good audio, but the wrong file name-and…well… Here is the advice from Microsoft with the first release of Windows Home Server, “Don’t virtualize this, the file system can go corrupt.” I had some from a Windows Home Server that had a drive system go “funny” because I (in my great and powerful wisdom as an ITpro who would try anything once) virtualized Windows Home Server.Īnd right now…I can hear members of the design team for Windows Home Server laughing their posteriors to the bone. There are probably duplicates and untagged MP3s. Old Media Player stuff, junk from a previous iTunes installation from years back, some things my kids had. It was actually a consolidation from several different machines. Today I was staring at a big pile of MP3s on my computer. Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, is here. Summary: Use Windows PowerShell and free utilities to clean up your directory structure and organize MP3s.
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