Duplicate photos in Lightroom Classic CC

[tomb99193094]

I'm in the process of syncing my Classic Lightroom with CC (which is a nightmare in the first place) and somehow Lightroom Classic has made a duplicate of all my photos in Classic. Why is that? How do I get rid of them before it takes twice as much time to sync?

[JohanElzenga]

You have to give more information. Lightroom Classic does not creates duplicates, so this must be user error somehow. Describe your workflow step by step.

[tomb99193094]

Maybe you could tell me what sort of user error would duplicate all my photos, because I dont remember doing anything that would do that. Does Lightroom have a command to duplicate all photos? I've never run across that one. Or tell me how to get rid of them all without going through every photo and deleting the dupes.

[tomb99193094]

The only thing I did was start the sync with Lightroom CC.

[JohanElzenga]

What does 'start the sync with Lightroom CC' mean exactly? What did you do?

Lightroom does not have a command to duplicate photos, but I can think of several ways a user can cause it. The first way is to import images again, the second way is to sync another catalog that contains the same images that were synced before. The third way is to import images into Lightroom CC (either the desktop or a mobile version) and then import the same images in Lightroom Classic. Maybe there are more ways I didn't think of right now.

You said that syncing is a 'nightmare in the first place'. What made it such a nightmare?

[tomb99193094]

I started the sync by clicking the command in the upper left of the screen near my name.

It stalled because I didn't have enough storage. I bought more storage and restarted the sync. At that point perhaps I changed what I was syncing.

Probably that's what cause the problem. So now how do I get rid of the dupes in Classic? In the library, there is a line for "synced duplicates". Could I select that then delete all?

Then delete all in CC and restart the sync from Classic?

Also, is there a comprehensive tutorial that covers syncing Classic with CC?

Thanks for your help.

[JohanElzenga]

It should be even easier. Removing an image from the 'All Synced Photographs' collection in Lightroom Classic should also remove it from the cloud. So if you remove all images from that 'synced duplicates' collection, they should automatically be removed from the cloud as well.

Here's a tutorial: How to sync Lightroom Classic CC desktop with Lightroom CC