Lists: Delete duplicate entries in personal list

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Thank you for the detailed explanations. I had a list with almost 1000 titles, without comments. Once moved the title in the other list, the counter says 1700+. Entering the list, I can actually see a lot of duplicates. Using the advance tool, on the other hand, I get, once again, a list with the original 1000 title...so no chance to find all the duplicates that way. Exporting the list is the easier solution, but, once detected the duplicates, I have to manually delete more than 700 entries. I wonder if, by contacting someone in the support team, they could perform a query server side in order to fix the problem! Ps: is there an "import" function from csv?

My apologies for forgetting that the Advanced Title Search doesn't show duplicates. So Export is your best tool. There is another option, built into IMDb: the Seen function. (There is also a bookmarklet written by a fellow user to view custom lists compactly after you've sorted/refined them, but that doesn't help with position number.) I don't imagine there is any way to delete except by hand. In future, the best way to avoid duplicates is to use Advanced Title Search to compare 2 lists to find what they have in common before copying from one to another. You can also do this if the list you're drawing from is not your own: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/tutorial-workarounds?topic-reply-list%5Bsettings%5D%5Bfilter... No, there is no import function. A good solution for the long term would be if IMDb brought back the Compact View. If you'd like to vote for that, there's an idea already posted here: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/compact-view-for-title-lists-should-return-with-these-featur... And here are requests to enhance Edit mode, including to provide sorting alphabetically: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/edit-list-enhancement-requests

A "remove duplicates" button would be even better! I have a list of 500 movies and I'm hunting through it for duplicates. So much work!

@majorgear One option is to export your list and use your preferred spreadsheet to identify the duplicates. See the final question on https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/track-movies-tv/lists-faq/GNQMN47VZSE7KW38 for more information.

External tools are always an option. I'm hoping for built-in tools to make the management of lists a smooth experience for end users. I would say that preventing the addition of duplicate movies would be the best solution as then end users don't have to manually remove them later. I'm in the process of adding every movie I thinks someone should watch to a list, and it will be probably around 1500 movies. As I add movies to this list, my #1 question before adding it to the list will be ... have I already added it? Since this process will take weeks/months, I'm likely to forget the contents of the list! Is there a customer feedback link that I can use to submit this as a feature?

@majorgear You are already on the customer feedback forum where ideas are recorded, tracked, and voted upon by other customers. The IMDb product management team regularly review the ideas here. To see other ideas for the site, see https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/topics/imdbcom/5f4951c662e5fc53cfeb955b?cType=IDEA In this case, there are many reasons why people would want lists to contain multiple items so it is not just a case of blocking multiple entries across all lists, sorry. There are several possible solutions but there would need to be good customer demand for this use case first.