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thomasn70258770
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April 20, 2017
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Duplicate files on desktop when syncing with LR mobile

  • April 20, 2017
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I use Lr mobile and shoot on my phone a lot - I had all those images syncing with a Lr catalog on my desktop.

I just made a new Lightroom catalog dedicated to my mobile photos.  The Lr Mobile photos are already on my desktop hard drive, so I Imported them to this new catalog.  Problem is, when I sync this new catalog Lr is now reSyncing (Re Importing?) all the photos from the adobe cloud, which is creating a duplicate for every image (Adding a "-2" to every file).

How do I properly move my sync'd mobile images to different Lr Catalogs?  &  How do I instruct lightroom that those images (Of the same file name) are already there? (something similar to don't import suspected duplicates on import?)

Any info would be a great help, thanks!

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Correct answer Mohit Goyal

Hi thomasn,

With every new catalog Lightroom mobile will need to remove the sync data from the cloud and re-sync the new images to the new catalog. If you shoot from your phone and then sync the images to the existing catalog or new catalog, it will re-sync the images again to the catalog.

Lightroom mobile resync all the images again to update the changes you made on the images using Lightroom mobile.

Common questions about Lightroom for mobile and Lightroom for Apple TV

Regards,

Mohit

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Joey301
Known Participant
November 6, 2017

I don't understand the answer. I seem to have all kinds of duplicates all of a sudden and in my catalog, i have a line called Synced Duplicates. What is that? Should I delete them?

Joe

    XactoBlade
    XactoBlade
    Participating Frequently
    December 1, 2017

    Same issue with double files. I started to delete them not knowing why they showed up... now I wonder if I deleted the wrong version and will loose all of them after i turn off syncing. I guess I will have to restore from a back up. This is not good!

    XactoBlade
    XactoBlade
    Participating Frequently
    December 1, 2017

    Also... exactly what file is safe to delete? When it duplicates two files one of the images show a page curl. Is this the one to delete or the one without?

      Mohit Goyal
      Community Manager
      Mohit GoyalCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
      Community Manager
      May 19, 2017

      Hi thomasn,

      With every new catalog Lightroom mobile will need to remove the sync data from the cloud and re-sync the new images to the new catalog. If you shoot from your phone and then sync the images to the existing catalog or new catalog, it will re-sync the images again to the catalog.

      Lightroom mobile resync all the images again to update the changes you made on the images using Lightroom mobile.

      Common questions about Lightroom for mobile and Lightroom for Apple TV

      Regards,

      Mohit

      ompus
      ompus
      Participant
      December 27, 2017

      Went to the suggested Adobe support page.  It says nothing about how to "remove the sync data from the cloud and re-sync the new images to the new catalog."

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