Why do I have double of every movie??

When I open the finder, I click on All Movies, and I'm able to see all my movies. The problem is I have double of every movie! Why is this? Can I delete one of each? If so, which one should I delete?? I'm just upset that it's taking up double the amount of memory it needs to. Thanks

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Aug 31, 2010 6:17 PM

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Aug 31, 2010 6:28 PM in response to Stephen Poirier

I have doubles too, but one is a cloned version resulting from SuperDuper cloning the drive onto an external drive. A clue might be found in seeing where the files are located. You may already know this, but select Finder / View / Show Path Bar. Then when you single-click on a file, the path will show up on the lower edge of the Finder window. This may help to see where they are located and why there are duplicates.

Nov 12, 2010 3:32 PM in response to Stephen Poirier

Id like help on this too
Could be something to do with Iphoto&imovie....I import all my pics and movie clips into iphoto
Then as you probably know when you open imovie and select 'iphoto videos' it spends a million years opening thumbnails of every movie clip...
Its just a guess...but could this be actually duplicating every movie file?
Whats the deal here....I'd really like a huge amount of disc space back

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