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Applications Support

The Applications Support search location deserves special mention as it encompasses the databases for iTunes, iPhoto, Aperture and Mail. You can search in the corresponding databases and synchronize any deletion, or, in Aperture, mark the chosen items.

Note that Tidy Up can’t remove the images from the Aperture database due to an inhibition by Apple. When you choose the move or trash action, Tidy Up assigns a keyword to those images instead of moving or trashing them. You can then create a new smart album inside Aperture and populate it with the images containing these keywords.

The keywords assigned are:

  1. Duplicate_Master_to_move, if the move action of Master Images has been chosen.
  2. Duplicate_Version_to_move, if the move action of Versions has been chosen.
  3. Duplicate_Master_to_trash, if the trash action of Master Images has been chosen.
  4. Duplicate_Version_to_trash, if the trash action of Versions has been chosen.

Tidy Up doesn’t allow to search in more than one location at the time inside Application Support, unless the applications you want to search in share the same kinds of files (for example, you can search in iPhoto and Aperture but not in Mail and iPhoto). Tidy Up 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 deselecting iPhoto).

Note: when performing a search in Mail, iTunes, Aperture or iPhoto, it is advisable that you only search in that location, unless you’re sure that in the other locations you want to search there aren’t any items owned by the application’s database.

 

Figure 37: Application Support.
Image I: No options in Application Support have been chosen.
Image II: The option iTunes Music has been chosen.

To choose a location from Applications Support, first click the triangle buttons beside Applications Support and the application of interest, then click the checkbox beside the desired option.

As shown in the images above, Tidy Up also offers the opportunity to limit the search in the iTunes, iPhoto and Aperture libraries to only some playlists, albums or events, or projects.

To limit the search:

In the first image, Applications Support has been opened, as well as as iPhoto Search and Synchronize.

In the second image, iTunes Music has been selected for searching and this has automatically disabled the ability to select any application other than iTunes. Deselecting iTunes Music would return Applications Support to the parent level and allow iTunes, iPhoto, Aperture or Mail to then be selected.

Click on the x beside each supported application to exclude any items (image for iPhoto, songs for iTunes, etc.) owned by an application from the scan. The items belonging to the excluded libraries will not be considered in the research. To restore, see Restore Excluded Items.


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