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Duplicate RAW files on import.

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
January 20, 2022
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When I import RAW files from my Canon camera, Bridge duplicates each file so I get two of everything. File Manager (Win 11) shows, correctly, one file per shot on the card.

This does not happen with my Sony camera.

Its a real pain having to delete all these duplicates and, until this is fixed, I have to copy via file manager.

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Mikoe70

Participant

I have the same problem inporting from Nikon D850. My Raw and JPG files are being duplicated. The filles on my camera wont get deleted either after export. I get an error message saying there is no connection.

Bridge verfsion 14.0.4.222

gary_sc

Community Expert

As I stated before, this has been fixed, and as others have noted, it has not been fixed, or it has returned.

Until this is fixed (again), you have three choices:

(1) Click the download and delete the unwanted stuff later,

(2) open the card in the Finder and manually download the images (if you convert to DNG as I do, you can do that after downloading by using the DNG Converter).

(3) Go into the Advanced Dialog (bottom left corner), and the first thing to do is to "Uncheck All." Then, shift-click all of the images you want to download. If there are non-image files in between the images, you can Command/Control-click on them to exclude them from the selections. Then, once you have all of the images you want to select, click in the CheckBox in any one of them, and all of the selected images will now be checked. Then verify the location of where you want the images to go, verify any other settings, and click Download. That should do it.

2nd issue

I'm gathering that you have the setting to automatically delete the data on the card after ingestion. Is that true? If so, please follow along. To me, the crime is that they offer the option to delete the images on the card after ingestion.

Let me explain: Let's say you were out with your camera, and aliens landed in front of you. You took photos of the ship and of the aliens climbing down from the ship, and you took video of them walking around, figuring that there was nothing more to be seen. Then, they got back on their ship and flew away. You've got it all on your camera!

You go home, download the image onto your hard drive, and the camera card is automatically erased. Then, just as you pick up the phone to call the media, an electric pulse crashes your computer and the hard drive. All the images you just took are gone. Sure, you could buy an image recovery from a card program, but they are not guaranteed.

Now consider this scenario: the same start all the way through the ingestion of the image, but you did not have that option selected. Yes, your computer is fried, but you can now take the card to any other computer, download the images from the card, back it up on an external second drive, and now you can call the media, and your images and movies will make you millions.

But there's also a 2nd reason: who's to say that the reforming done by your computer will be understood by your camera? It's happened. And then you can't access the card anymore because your camera can't even see the card to try to reformat the card. Yeah, it's happened.

When I'm traveling, I upload the images to my wife’s laptop, back them up on an external drive, work on the images in LRC, back up the LRC catalog and images onto an external drive, and reformat the card to use the next day.

I hope that gives you some food to think about and enjoy.

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Canon-EOS5

Participant

Seriously @gary_sc ??

It's been fixed.. but hey.. since not really.. do this??

C'mon dude!

For my Canon-camera colleagues, whic hI know Adobe has a close rleationship with, just use the Cano utilites. At leatst those actually work.

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MikeD15

Participant

It's now 18 months after the 1st report at the top of this thread, and no fix by Adobe?

And I believe it's been oging on much longer than that.

It is a supreme pain to manually delete and/or copy files to my PC.

gary_sc

Community Expert

Have you updated your copy of Bridge? This is now fixed (a long time ago).

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MikeD15

Participant

Hi Gary. Apparently not. My wife actually works for Adobe, so I have the latest updates of all the tools, as well as the new gen-AI betas.

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Peter24933718v49o

Participant

I am experiencing the same thing. Importing from a Canon 5D Mark IV, Bridge is duplicating each raw-file on import.

Whats wrong?

John MalAuthor

Inspiring

It's now accepted as a known bug and it's being worked on.
Workaround is to go to Select Folders dialog, you'll see two boxes ticked.
Untick DCIM and the duplicates go. It's not "sticky" though ...

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Matt22801270abzp

Participant

I am experiencing the same thig. Importing from a Nikon Z6 II, Bridge is duplicating each file on import (ex. 1234.NEF/1234-1.NEF). This just started happening. Very frustrating.

SocialPhotographer

Participating Frequently

I am also experiencing this exact same problem with Bridge 12.0.2.252 and my Sony A7r3. Very inconvenient 😞

SocialPhotographer

Participating Frequently

In Windows 10 Power Shell, I carefully worked out and tested this one-line command to delete all the unwanted duplicate files that Adobe Bridge created during import. Do not adapt this solution for your own use, unless you completely understand it and are comfortable working at the command line. Be sure to run Get-ChildItem first as a dry run and sanity check!

PS P:\2022\20220603> Remove-Item -Include *-1.* -Path P:\2022\20220603\*

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