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December 17, 2018

P: Desktop: Creating Duplicates Upon Saving

  • December 17, 2018
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Hoping this makes sense!

Almost every time I export/save photos from CC, the program will begin the process, then stop halfway through and restart... which then duplicates the file.

For example, I tried exporting an album of 80 high res images yesterday afternoon, which I walked away from...and four hours later,came back to the program STILL exporting, and I had SEVEN copies of about 3/4ths of the images from the album.

If its user error, for the love of goodness, please correct me.
If its a problem with CC, how would I go about fixing it? I've switched computers, uninstalled and reinstalled and restarted my computer.... nothing seems to fix it!

Please help! Exporting weddings is a frikin NIGHTMARE.

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Inspiring
May 31, 2020
I'm having this problem. Lightroom version 3.2.1. Mac O.S. Version 10.15 
Inspiring
May 29, 2020
Hi Rikk, do we have an update yet? This is very inconvenient.
Inspiring
May 29, 2020
Mojave 10.14.4
Inspiring
May 23, 2020
How is it possible that this problem has not been resolved? It's such a big problem to not be able to export photos that we have edited with this software... it's a basic functionality. I'm unable to export at the moment, and the "trick" I was using before no longer works (ie, I was able to export if I had the Wifi turned off). 

I am only trying to export 36 photos and it won't complete, and it just keeps restarting. It creates 13-14 duplicates for the first 15 photos then stops.

I am no longer able to use this software for my wedding photography editing, since it is impossible to export a client's entire gallery.

Are there any workarounds? 
Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 18, 2020
When an update is available it will be posted in this thread. Additionally the status (currently In-progress) may change too. 

I have no new information to share at this time. The team continues to actively investigate the issue. 
Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Inspiring
May 16, 2020
Hi @8510810 Flohr, can you give us any updates on this issue? Can you reproduce the problem? Is anybody working on this? A short status update would be highly appreciated.
Inspiring
May 16, 2020
Catilina 10.15.4
Inspiring
May 9, 2020
I have had the same issue for months with Lightroom cc.  It takes forever to save files, then more hours are wasted deleting duplicate files. 
Inspiring
May 1, 2020


as I said: download al large number of Pics (<100) to desktop from cloud starts again and again after an Internet interruption and creates duplicates. My Workflow: downloading Images from Camera to iPad Pro at location and edit on desktop at office, then download final Images to Folder on Desktop. So I have to split my download into smaller parts and that's annoying!!!


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April 28, 2020
Windows 10 Home v1909