I suddenly have JPG files in my import

[Lyonnesse]

I've always unchecked the 'Treat JPG files next to raw files as separate photos' and that was fine till today

Despite it still being unchecked I now have 83 JPGs cluttering up my shoot from today

How can I stop this happening going forward?  

What's the best way to remove the unwanted files without deleting them?

[JohanElzenga · Accepted solution]

This could be a preferences corruption, so try resetting them: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/

You can remove the jpegs from the catalog by selecting them and then pressing the Delete key. Lightroom will ask you if you only want to remove them from the catalog (yes) or also delete from disk (no).

[Lyonnesse]

Ultimately I didn't do anything, and today's import was ok - just the raw files.  I got a new Macbook a week ago, restoring from the old one using Time Machine.  Yesterday was the first import on the new kit - I wonder if that was a factor?

Anyway, thanks for the tip.  I'll know what to do if it happens again

[Sean McCormack]

Lightroom still imports JPGs with this setting, they're just treated as sidecar files. They should appear as RAW+JPEG in the Grid thumbnail. 

As to removing, select them and hit Delete. The delete dialog will show with Remove or Delete  options. 

[richardplondon]

Radical answer to stopping this going forward:

if your camera model permits it, you can intentionally shoot either for Raw, or for JPG - and not get both

(For context: I find the whole idea of Raw+JPG mode quite unsatisfactory - it's as if every time you picked an apple, that would automatically dig up a potato as well! I've got nothing against an apple when that's what you've a whim for, and when it's potatoes you want, nothing fits that particular bill as well as a potato can. But.. I find those two sorts of occasion seldom coincide...)