How to stop duplicate photos being included in Photoshop?

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July 14, 2019
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I have many duplicate photos in my Photoshop Elements app from my hard drive file, how do i stop these duplicates being included in the app?Cheers Bruce

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Correct answer Greg_S.

What version of Elements are you using and what OS? How are you importing your photos to the Organizer? (From a camera card via the Adobe Photo Downloader?)

I assume that either you are using an older version of the program or the duplicate photos have different names (e.g. with a suffix -1)?

Depending on your responses to my questions, there are various strategies to remove the duplicates.

Greg_S.

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What version of Elements are you using and what OS? How are you importing your photos to the Organizer? (From a camera card via the Adobe Photo Downloader?)

I assume that either you are using an older version of the program or the duplicate photos have different names (e.g. with a suffix -1)?

Depending on your responses to my questions, there are various strategies to remove the duplicates.

B

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Hi Greg thanks,

yes the photos have (copy nos) or same photo with different filename. They are stored on a DLink hard drive all 40,000 photos. Ithink the DLink has created a backup copy and Photoshop has imported both copies in some instances.

Is there some other way of reducing the duplicate photos?

I was using Picasa and found it to be a far better product than PhotoShop, but Picasa did not like the photos being on a separate hard drive.

cheers

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