Unwanted duplicates in Elements 2026 - Organiser

Sound great

Your input was useful but not what I was looking for. I solved my problem when I realised that it is possible to choose to view local files only. In the this want all the backups are available but not shown in the grid.

I think was important to realize here is that duplicates are a good thing.   Why?  You don’t have all of your eggs in one basket.   

What is important here is to find out if they (the duplicate photos) are the exact same photos in the exact same location.

So much depends on what folders/ directories you are telling organizer to monitor. 

For example:   

All my photos are on an external HDD.  
All my photos are also on another HHD (Internal).
All my photos are also on another SSD (Internal).

If something went wrong and I only had my photos on one drive: then I’m screwed.

Something goes wrong?  I just grab the photos from another drive.

I only have organizer monitoring the stuff on one drive, why?   I’ve got a “system” that has been working for me since I purchased my first hard drive (20MB) for $300 back in 1992.   No reason for me to change,