Spring Cleaning – For Your Mac!

By Matt@Smalldog.com

Spring cleaning is an interesting phenomenon. Many of us feel compelled to thoroughly clean our physical living and work spaces when the weather warms, the snow melts, and the mud takes over. In a few weeks I’ll be packing up my sweaters in a cedar chest and breaking moving warm weather clothing to the front of the closet.

While spring cleaning of your home can suck up an entire weekend or more, I came across an AppleScript on macosxhints.com that will remove all the stale, dusty nonfunctioning songs in your iTunes library in a tiny faction of the time. I compiled it and call it Colander. Over the course of a year I tend to move my library around, delete files, and listen to radio stations. These actions can lead to “orphaned” songs in the iTunes list because the files no longer exist on your hard drive. This week, like last, I’m posting the AppleScript in my .Mac public folder-my user name is mmklein. While I successfully used the script on my own iTunes libraries at home and work, I make no guarantees about the function of this, and urge you to be backed up before using it.

There are plenty of tremendously powerful AppleScripts for iTunes at Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes, www.dougscripts.com/itunes

By Matt@Smalldog.com