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Spaceman2011
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November 18, 2011
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How to eliminate duplicate copies after doing a sort

I did a filter/sort across 100's of folders then exported the results to a separate folder.

I later noticed way too many duplicates in the new folder.

Does Lightroom have a feature to automatically remove or eliminate duplicates when doing such a process??

If not, any other ideas??

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    steve185
    Participant
    October 18, 2015

    Under the image area, next to the A/Z option, Sort "Added Order" as presumably you didn't import them all at the same time. This will sort your images into 2 groups. Shift select the first and last images of one group and delete them.

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      ArthurV
      Participating Frequently
      October 12, 2016

      My workflow for this:

      in the Library on top select the text option and search for any images that filename contain -2 (this is the wai LR rename duplicate) then it will display all image with the -2 (duplicate)

        Jose Lamarque
        Jose Lamarque
        Participant
        March 6, 2017

        Thank you!

        larsonv83671003
        larsonv83671003
        Participant
        October 10, 2015

        try this DuplicateFilesDeleter

        Painting Light
        Painting Light
        Participant
        June 7, 2015

        Use a program called Gemini from the app store. Finds duplicates in any part of your mac. One of the best features of this program is that it finds duplicate photos which have been renamed. Absolute life and space saver. Gemini: Best Mac Duplicate File Finder. How to Remove Dulicates on Mac OS X

          renderdc0
          renderdc0
          Participant
          February 9, 2015

          I believe you can query duplicate files by searching the folder that contains the images by typing in the search field *duplicate file-name.

          In my case I downloaded duplicate memory cards into my lightroom library and realized Lightroom had automatically resolved the duplicates by adding a -2 behind the original file-name...ex: rob_3455.NEF  --> lightroom changed to rob_3455-2.NEF On a Windows machine. You can query part of a file name within a certain folder by typing an asterix in front of the variable in a search field.

          Hope that helps.

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          CSS_Simon
          Participating Frequently
          November 19, 2011

          I guess it depends what you want to do with the duplicates.  I mean: presumably, having found duplicates, you're going to have to go through them individually to choose which to keep? 

          If all your photo folders are under one common top-level folder (if not, you can always move them - but do it inside LR by dragging folders) then you can view all files in the catalog in file-name order.  In Library, make sure Library menu, "Show Photols in Subfolders" is checked, then simply select the top folder and make sure the sort is by name.  Go through and you'll see duplicates with the same name before you even see the name (I mean, they'll look he same).  Tedious, but if you've got to go through choosing which to keep it's going to be tedious anyway. 

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          Spaceman2011Auteur
          Participant
          November 22, 2011

          Hi CSS Simon

          Many times in the past I have had a need to sort across 100's of folders

          to search for a particular tag or ranking. While copying the results to

          a new folder, I found that all duplicates would automatically be

          eliminated. So far, I can't find a way to do that with Lr. Bummer!!

          Thanks for your response.

          Spaceman2011

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          lgraffxxx
          Participant
          July 24, 2013

          Spaceman,

          In Lightroom, you can go to the All Photographs collection and sort by file name. That will at least bring all the duplicates next to each other. Having duplicate images in your catalogue can be a bother. How did they get there? There's a box you can check to prevent duplicates from being imported.

          And yes, Lightroom doesn't change your images. That's the point of being non-destructive. If you want images to share, you create them on demand through the export process (or Print, Web, or Slideshow). The exported images can be treated as temporary in the sense that you don't need to import them back into Lightroom because they can always be re-created.

          Lightroom is kind of like a marriage (Not my metaphor.). When you use it, it works best with some commitment on your part to use it as your sole entry to your images. It is a good partner in most respects .And like all good spouses, it has its flaws.

          Hal


          Once all the duplicates are all sitting next to each other, is there a batch process to determine which file is the real thing and eliminate dupes and bad links?

          web-weaver
          web-weaver
          Inspiring
          November 18, 2011

          LR has no feature to recognize duplicates if they have a different file name. LR cannot recognize dupicates according to image content.

          I found an old forum entry where something called dupeguru was mentioned that supposedly would recognize duplicates based on image content. The post said that it would not work in LR so you had to apply it on its own.

          Check it out: http://www.hardcoded.net/dupeguru_pe/

          I have no experience with this program; I don't know if it works. Don't even know if the link is OK.

          WW

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          Spaceman2011Auteur
          Participant
          November 19, 2011

          Thanks for the quick response.

          My problem is with the same name, not different names. The LR sort group has lot of duplications with the same name.

          Seems like they could easily reject duplications during that process!!

          That's what I was hopping for.

          Thanks Again.

          PS: How do you edit your original question??

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