I have continually upgraded Band-in-a-Box for many years, and I just installed 2012 on to my internal hard drive. There appears to be many duplicate files -- that is, files that are the same in size and content but have different names.

So, my basic question is: are they really duplicates or are they just similar files of the same size with different names?

Here is an example of what appears to be a file with five copies of it, but all with different names. These particular files are in my bb\RealTracks - Demos\ directory:

Piano, Electric, Soloist SmoothJazzBallad chorus Ev16 065 #1074 band.wma size 1215006
Piano, Electric, Soloist SmoothJazzBallad chorus Ev16 065 (Bluesy) #1077 band.wma size 1215006
Piano, Electric, Soloist SmoothJazzBallad delay Ev16 065 #1078 band.wma size 1215006
Piano, Electric, Soloist SmoothJazzBallad dry Ev16 065 (Bluesy) #1167 band.wma size 1215006
Piano, Electric, Soloist SmoothJazzBallad chorus Ev16 065 #1076 band.wma size 1215006

I believe the program I used to find the dups discriminates among files of the same size but with different structural content since there were files of the same size that were not identified as duplicates.
For example:

Piano, Electric, Soloist SmoothJazzBallad chorus Ev16 065 #1074 band.wma size 1215006
Pedal Steel,Soloist ContryPaul Ev 065 #1667 band.wma size 1215006

Just wondering.

Overall I found of the 108,850 files in C:\bb\ and 3,644 of the files accounted for 11,098 duplicates.

Thank you.