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Brian Hoyt
Brian Hoyt
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May 27, 2019
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Will add photos create duplicates or is it intelligent enough to prevent that?

  • May 27, 2019
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I use OneDrive and Office 365 to backup photos from my mobile devices. It pulls all the photos into a directory that I then have access to on PC. If I import that directory is Lightroom (2.3) intelligent enough to not re-import all the files already imported?

Is there a way to set Lightroom to watch that directory and just import new files?

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    99jon
    99jon
    Legend
    May 27, 2019

    Lightroom is a cloud service. There is no sync between other cloud services unless you set up duplication e.g. download everything into another share folder.

    Brian Hoyt
    Brian HoytAuthor
    Participant
    May 28, 2019

    As I said all the files are synchronized from OneDrive to a directory on my PC. I am then doing add photos and pointing to that folder. Since I posted this I found that it auto detects that it has already imported and doesn't duplicate so at least that is good. Only problem is I have to manually exclude videos.

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