Reducing the cluttered Lightroom Library and removing duplicates

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April 29, 2020
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I have been using LR for several years and have managed to make a mess of images and dupes scattered all over LR. How can I get them all in one place to eliminate the dupes and reduce all the clutter? Is there any app on the market to save disorganized people like me?

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Akash Sharma

Legend

Hi there,

It's a problem most advanced Lightroom users face after a long term use of the application. The library can get cluttered without management and optimization.

Which version of Lightroom are you using?

If using Lightroom Classic, I would personally suggest that you checkout this article that I've found helpful while dealing with duplication and managing Lightroom library: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/clean-duplicate-photos/

Note: I am in no way promoting any application or referring you to buy it. I found it helpful for understanding how to manage the library.

Let us know if that helps.

Thanks,

Akash

Malam

Participating Frequently

Don't look too far. I made several attempts to re-organize things with LR3,4,5 but was not too successful. Too many photos to deal with. I have just migrated to Lighroom CC and I think you have more tools to re-organize with CC. When you upload your photos, Lighroom CC does away with your previous folder arrangements. I was scared about this at first. But what you get is a clean setup withyour photos displayed by the year the photos were taken with all the duplicates removed. You also can view the photos by people. A bit of work is required to use these two tools to create new albums and folders. Just a suggestion.

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