{"id":266,"date":"2010-12-23T21:47:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T20:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/?p=266"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:13:50","slug":"itunes-dead-file-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/itunes-dead-file-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes dead file removal"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is more of a memo to myself than anything else:<\/p>\n

The solution is here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1) Make a static playlist called “All Live Files” and copy your entire library into it.
\n2) Make a smart playlist called “Missing Files” with the rules set as ” ‘Playlist’ ‘is’ ‘Music’ ” and another rule set as ” ‘Playlist’ ‘is not’ ‘All Live Files’ ”
\n3) Select all songs from “Missing Files”; they should all be flagged with a “!”, then use shift-DEL to remove them from your library<\/p>\n

Worked with iTunes 10.1 under Windows just now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is more of a memo to myself than anything else: The solution is here: 1) Make a static playlist called “All Live Files” and copy your entire library into it. 2) Make a smart playlist called “Missing Files” with the rules set as ” ‘Playlist’ ‘is’ ‘Music’ ” and another rule set as ” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pet-peeves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}