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November 10, 2023
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How to find and remove duplicates in LR (not classic)

  • November 10, 2023
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I'm finding duplicate files from time to time in my LR CC account.  I have lots of photos (over 20k), so when I found a few, I thought it would be worthwhile to have a way to search the entire catalog.  So far, this is treated as a non-existant issue as far as I can tell.  Any search takes me to LR Classic and the Duplicate Finder plugin.  

 

So, to be clear, I'm talking about cloud-based LR CC, not desktop based LR Classic.  

 

My guess is that there is no official fix, but if someone has found a workaround I'd love to hear it.

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    November 10, 2023

    Ok, I've figured out what the problem was, for some reason I have a number of the same photos in my library that are in both .HEIC & .JPEG formats.  This sneaks them by LR's duplicate finding by file name.  So, any clever solutions for finding these?

    Rob_Cullen
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    Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
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    November 11, 2023

    There is no way TBMK to limit a search to only files that exist as both HEIC and JPG.

    You can search JPG or HEIC-

    Click the Search bar- Choose [Extension] > Select "HEIC", "JPG", etc.

    You can search both HEIC and JPG, but you will still only have a visual way to look for two 'identical' images- Not much help if ALL your photos are either HEIC or JPG 😞

     

    Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .
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