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Nshowalter
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December 23, 2023
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Finding Duplicates without Risking Original Images

  • December 23, 2023
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I'm trying to clean up my catalog and deal with an issue where I imported my deceased father's scanned pictures. Because he wasn't using a catalog of any sort, he tended to scan the same image multiple times or copy an image into multiple places. So, now I have a catalog with the same image in several places - some of them are higher quality than others.

 

I've been using a plug-in (called Buggenstock) but the problem is that it by default finds the higher resolution version of an image and marks to delete lower quality images. That works with my Dad's images but it finds my best images that I've edited and marks the original images for deletion.

 

What is the best practice or option, generally speaking, for making original images so that they are not deleted accidentally? Do people use a color-coded label or some other means?

 

Or, are there better options for finding duplicate images?

 

Nic

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GoldingD
GoldingD
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December 23, 2023
I've been using a plug-in (called Buggenstock) but the problem is that it by default finds the higher resolution version of an image and marks to delete lower quality images.

Can that app apply keyword to the images? Something like duplicate. Then in LrC, after importing the metadata (assuming their would be a metadata conflict) filter on that keyword. I remember accomplishing this using a program called ThumbsPlus, by Cerious (Windows only, sorry)

 

 

Sean McCormack
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Sean McCormackCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 23, 2023

In this case, you may be better off using a temporary catalog for your fathers photos, doing the require deletions from there and then importing them into your main catalog. 

 

For digital images it's easier to find duplicates generally because they'll have the same capture time, so viewing by capture time will reveal them. In the case of your plugin, I'm sure you can unmark them after and use Stacking to hide the original under the edit. How does it mark the images? If it's using Reject, simply press U to remove it. 

 

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.
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NshowalterAuthor
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December 23, 2023

That's a good idea with using a temporary catalog.

 

You're saying that when stacking images, that only the one on top of a stack is accessible to a search of any/some kind?

 

Sean McCormack
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Sean McCormackCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 23, 2023

When a stack is closed, the images below the top of the stack are ignored. When it's open, they're not. Also when it's closed, you're obviously seeing less photos, so it's far less cluttered. 

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.
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