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Peter_Appleby
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December 8, 2017
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PeterA [LR6 Export Problems]

  • December 8, 2017
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I have exported my photos from iPhoto to Lightroom 6 and find that I have sometimes 2 copies of the same image with different file names.

For example "20131122_IMG-3858.jpg" and IMG-3858-53313.jpg. Which one should i keep.

I have deleted some and had a message in lightroom saying that it cannot find the file. Restoring from my trash it the works. I can the delete the other file.

I cannot work out which is the correct one as its seems to be random. The images were taken on a Canon compact and images from my Fuji X-T2 seem to be OK.

Although my Photoshop CS6 does not recognise the fuji Raw files.

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PeterA

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    dj_paige
    dj_paige
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    December 8, 2017

    First, if you are going to delete files, do it in Lightroom. Select the photo(s) to delete, press DELETE and then you can choose either delete from disk, or remove from Lightroom.

    Which one should you keep? That's up to you, I doubt we can advise here across the internet. You have to look at the photos, and decide which (or both) to keep, based on appearance and whether the photo was edited and perhaps other criteria.

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      Peter_ApplebyAuthor
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      December 8, 2017

      Thanks for reply.

      I do delete files from Lightroom.

      The problem is that i do not know which of the 2 files to delete.

      I do not want to store duplicate images. Its not a selection based on image quality as they both appear identical.

      I have previously deleted files and then had to retrieve from the trash can and re-import, and then delete the other one.

      There seems to be a random aspect as to which is the master file!

      dj_paige
      dj_paige
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      December 8, 2017

      Why would you have to retrieve one from the trash can? What made you decide that you wanted this version, and not the other version? Obviously, you have some reason for doing so, but you haven't explained it yet. Please explain.

      There's no need to re-import in this case anyway. Just copy the file back to the folder it was in before you deleted it. (On Windows, photos in the trash can can be "restored" which means placed in their folder before deletion, via right-clicking on a photo and selecting Restore; maybe Mac has the same?)

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