Deleting Duplicate Folders/Directories after Import

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Perhaps I did not think this through in the best way possible and looking for suggestions on how best to handle this. I stumbled upon this post which sounds like similar problem:

I’m doing large imports in batches using quite mode with duplicate_action: skip. So I have a lot of whole Album directories that are full of files and are duplicates I don’t want. Don’t worry I have multiple backups elsewhere.

Short of scouring the log file for every line that starts with “duplicate-skip /PathForThatBatch/SomeArtist/SomeAlbum” and manually deleting it is there an elegant solution. I’ve got about 3+ days of batches and multiple directories with many duplicates to deal with. However, the plain “skipped” because they didn’t have a good enough match are mixed in. So I can’t just delete everything.

My thought was to get the “good” stuff first and go back and deal with lesser matches “later”. Well I’m at later not and scratching my head.

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What flags/config did you import with? I think with a combination of incremental and incremental_skip_later you should be able to just import the “good” tracks (i.e. non-duplicates and matched tracks) in a non-interactive way, and then do a second interactive import (still with duplicate_action: skip) which should only try and import the skipped non-duplicate tracks (just being the ones which didn’t match).

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This was my import section for the last few days. Looks like I need to read up more on incremental.

Thanks!

import:
    quiet: yes #yes #Testing this come back to it!!!
    write: yes #Writes tags to files/tracks
    copy: yes
    move: no
    delete: yes # Be careful!!!
    resume: ask
    incremental: no
    quiet_fallback: skip
    timid: no
    log: /config/beet.log
    #duplicate_action: keep
    duplicate_action: skip