Duplicate movie showed up in my Apple movie library

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Duplicate movie showed up in my Apple movie library

A duplicate movie just showed up in my Apple (iTunes) Library. Suddenly I have two copies of the movie "Silverado". One had not been opened or played because it started at the very beginning of the film when I selected it. The other had been watched and started up where I last left off watching it. This was first noticed on my Apple TV 4K set top box.

I'm afraid if I delete one of them that the deletion will delete both of them.

I'm running a MacBook Pro with the latest version of Tahoe.

Anyone else having this issue?

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 26.1

Posted on Dec 19, 2025 6:57 PM

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Answer 1

Grrrrrrrr! Author

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Dec 19, 2025 9:13 PM in response to Vancouver22

The force quit/restart didn't work. The only problem I have with your next suggestion is that I don't want my AppleTVs in the house to have to access the movie from my Mac - especially when my Mac is off. I would rather it reside in Apple's cloud in my account and available for all my AppleTVs and Macs.

And if this weird bug duplicates other movies in my library, I don't want to keep downloading them to my Mac where they will begin to eat up storage space.

But thanks for your help. Cheers.

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Answer 2

Vancouver22

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Dec 19, 2025 8:36 PM in response to Grrrrrrrr!

force quit the tv app then restart the Mac and it should refresh it and fix it. Otherwise you can download the one you used to your Mac to save it then try deleting the other.

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