Delete Duplicate

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Operating system

Windows

Joplin version

3.4.12

What issue do you have?

Hi, I'd like to ask If I delete some duplicates outside the system, will it affect the system? What will happen? Is it something I shouldn’t do? Is there an alternative? Also, what is the best way to find duplicates, empty notes, extensive notes, or to sort by size? What is the standard procedure?

Thank you.

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This has already been answered by 3 different people, including Laurent himself. You’re not going to get a better answer

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Always create a backup before doing such a thing, I deleted too many notes many times

Are you a software developer? If not, it will be difficult for you, but if you have a tested backup then what's the worst thing that could happen? Worst case 30 wasted hours on reverting the mess you cause.

You can try to adjust my script I used to remove duplicated tags, but first you have to edit it and note that if you run it as is, it's gonna make some irreversible changes to the system.

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Hi,

I'm communicating via an assistant - i did not get the previous answers. i am asking if there is any programmatic way to delete duplicates found by an external program? is there an internal unique note number i can use to call the API and delete all of the duplicates in one run? or can i export everything as MD and re-import everything as MD deleting in the middle step? thanks.

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