DupeZap: Applications Support

The Applications Support search location (included by default in the List to Scan) deserves special mention as it encompasses the databases for iTunes, iPhoto, Aperture and Mail. You can search the corresponding databases for duplicate files and synchronize any deletions, or in Aperture, mark the chosen items.

When performing a search on Mail, iTunes, Aperture or iPhoto, it is advisable that you search on that location only, and not choose to include other locations at the same time. In addition, you are limited to searching only one area within Applications Support at a time; DupeZap will automatically grey out the other choices within Applications Support if you choose one of the areas (i.e., if you select iPhoto Images, you will be prevented from choosing Mail or iTunes without first de-selecting iPhoto).

To choose a location from Applications Support, you first access it by clicking the triangle buttons beside Applications Support and the application of interest, then click the checkbox beside the desired option. In the first screenshot, Applications Support has been opened, as has iPhoto Search and Synchronize.

In the second screenshot, iPhoto Images has been selected for searching (replacing Applications Support at the parent level of the List to Scan) and this has automatically disabled the ability to select other applications. De-selecting iPhoto Images would return Applications Support to the parent level and allow iTunes, iPhoto, Aperture or Mail to then be selected.

Aperture Search and Mark has also the possibility to choose from the Master or Version Images and the capability to search only in the chosen projects or in the whole database.

Click on the (x) beside to each supported application to exclude any items owned by an application from the scan. A triangle will appear to the right of the Applications Support icon. This triangle indicates an item of that application has been excluded. Clicking the triangle shows the list of applications' items excluded from the search. Clicking Restore all would remove the excluded applications' items from the excluded list, allowing you to once again to choose them as locations to search; if there were additional excluded items, Restore can be used to selectively.

When you choose a search from iTunes' music or iPhoto's photos, DupeZap will allow you to clean up the corresponding database by removing the records of the missing files.

For iTunes, the option to search for and report dead tracks. A dead track is a song file no longer in the location where iTunes had registered it. DupeZap will list the dead link files for easy review and management.

For iPhoto, the option to search for and report missing images. A missing image is one in which an image file is no longer in the same location where iPhoto had registered it. DupeZap will list the dead link files for easy review and management.

This screenshot is of the additional iTunes option (accessed via the iTunes' Music search pane).

Here you see the additional iPhoto option (accessed via the iPhoto's photos search pane).

When the dead track or missing image report is run (see image below), select any entries you wish to remove and click the Delete button.