XP search - duplicates files that are really only there once

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Search for *.mp3 ?

I have 13, yes 13, *.mp3 files and Search finds only 13 *.mp3 files.

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:962A0137-456A-42C6-90B7-13018ED6AFA7@microsoft.com,
Kam_uk <Kamuk@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and pecked:
> A friend of mine has been trying to clean his HDD but had trouble while
> using search,
> he'd search for all MP3's so he could remove what he thought was
> duplicates. when he deleted one it deleted all of them,
>
> I looked at it and the files are only there once but the search shows it
> up twice, thought it must be his file system or search index but when I
> got home I tried it on all of my PC's and it does the same, search for
> music and its lists duplicates (seems to be only music, txt log dll etc
> are fine)
>
> any ideas why it does this