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December 24, 2017
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Somehow when I import photos from my camera, Lightroom duplicates all of them and creates a "...-2.jpg" file for every single photo.

Both sets of photos show up in the library and in "develop". I have to sort them out and delete all the "...-2.jpg" files.

How do I stop this function? Thank you.

macOS

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Correct answer Rikk Flohr_Photography

The LrC Team has not been able to reproduce this behavior.

For those of you who are experiencing this behavior:

OS Version Number?
Current installed Lightroom Version Number?
Camera Model?
Connection method for memory card (Camera Direct, Internal Card Reader, External reader, Copy to Hard Drive, etc)
Repeatability (every time, some times, seldom)

Note: The only time I've seen this personally, was direct camera connect on a 5D Mark IV with internal cards set to mirror.

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Jesse5DC1

Participating Frequently

This has been working as expected for me in the last two or so updates (even before the official release notes stated it was fixed)! Thank you!

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stuwrtlttle

Participant

The workaround for this issue is to import using the file structure, which is below the memory card that shows up at the top left in the import dialog.

amym71022633

Participant

Same issue on my a7iv, doesn't happen on my sony a9. Any resolution on this?

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debbie249358279u2j

Participant

I have it happen almost every time now. prior it was sporadic. I'm on windows 11, Canon T8i, importing using sandisk card reader of my Sandisk extreme pro 170MB/s 128GB cards

nellacol

Participant

I have just recently started getting this problem, when I didn't before. And I don't believe anything has changed in my hardware or software.

I use LR Classic 11.3.1

On Mac OS Catalina 10.15.7

Camera Nikon Z6 ll transferring the files using a card reader

Such a frustrating problem that I can see many people are experiencing

Thanks

Colin

Rikk Flohr_Photography

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Community Manager

The LrC Team has not been able to reproduce this behavior.

For those of you who are experiencing this behavior:

OS Version Number?
Current installed Lightroom Version Number?
Camera Model?
Connection method for memory card (Camera Direct, Internal Card Reader, External reader, Copy to Hard Drive, etc)
Repeatability (every time, some times, seldom)

Note: The only time I've seen this personally, was direct camera connect on a 5D Mark IV with internal cards set to mirror.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

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götz22400780l1zb

Participating Frequently

Hi, as (partly) mentioned in my posting:

macOS (11.6.1, 12.2.1)
LR-C 11.1
iPhone 13 Pro (15.2, 15.3.1)
Lightning Cable
Every Time

And to make it clear: That problem started after the last or the one update before of Lightroom.

Regards . Götz

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götz22400780l1zb

Participating Frequently

Have to add:

LR-C 11.2 too.

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swnsn

Participant

I can reproduce this when importing from a Canon 5D MK IV and adding keywords. i can avoid duplicates by not adding keywords until after import. hope this helps

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ozphotographs

Participating Frequently

Was this bug ever fixed? I'm still having this problem. I would prefer not to have to keyword after importing, but I would also prefer not to import twice.

MindStormPhoto

Known Participant

"converted to Adobe RAW (aka DNG) in the import process."

This 'rings a bell' for me! Duplicates happened for me (Some time ago) with Windows OS.

Noted that others are reporting the duplicates esp with Mac systems.!

The situation was this as I undertand how it happened to me-

1) I Imported a partial selection of images on the first occassion by [Copy as DNG]- So the files were written to hard-drive once (as NEF) and converted to DNG (automatically by the LrC import process).

2) IIRC I may have interupted the import, or

3) Opened a second Import of the same SD card containing the same Nikon NEF files, in order to Import the remainder of images.

4) [Copy as DNG] once Again. And I created duplicate files!

I believed that the first Import created DNG files on disk. The Second Import LrC identified the NEF camera files as different (ie NOT duplicates) so it Imported them a second time (as NEFs.! so there is now temporarily both DNG and NEF files) and as LrC then converts the second import to DNG- Windows OS recognises them as duplicates and renames them (NEF > DNG) with the -2 (or -002) suffix on the filenames.

Can I suggest- Convert to DNG (if you must) from the Menu after Importing the raws to a folder. Import all files from the camera card and Format in the camera before the next use and import to LrC.

Perhaps a trial of my suggestion with a few files will tell me I am wrong.

This is definitely a "first import" situation, where the card is taken from the camera, put into a USB reader, and then imported.

I will try to just import though, and do the DNG conversation later, and see if that helps/

Thx for the suggestion!

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AxmansEye

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I see that this is from 2017, but it is now 8th December 2021, and I am having thie same issue.
This is a new issue for me, and nothing has changed in to. provoke this issue, other than a new install of LR-C on my new computer.
Has anyone found a resolution to this? It appears unresolved in this thread.

thanks in advance

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jessica22203318eyki

Participant

This is a new issue for me too. The strange thing is, it only duplicates files from imports off of my D750 and not my Z6!

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michaelz31213183

Participant

I am having the same issue with a Ricoh Griii and a Ricoh GriiiX, but not with my Sony cameras or my Leica Q2. I am shooting in Raw and Lightroom converts the files to two DNGs... I would lvoe to know what's going on. t started about six weeks ago. Before that I never had the issue. I am using a 2017 iMac Pro.

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cherylr8180051

Participant

I am having this same issue, I use my card reader to import into Lightroom. I updated the firmware on my camera (same camera) and continue with the same issue.

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Sherry5C68

Participant

Same! Mine just started duplicating and I haven't been doing anything different.

Just Shoot Me

Legend

What are your import settings.

Do a test import of some photos you shoot around the house and take a screen shot of the import window and post it here.

What OS are you using?

What exact version of LR are you running? Open LR go to the Help menu then System Info and post the exact LR version.

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marct22284924Author

Participant

Thank you.

macOS High Sierra (10.13.2).

Lightroom version: CC 2015.8 [ 1099473 ]

More details:

License: Creative Cloud

Operating system: Mac OS 10

Version: 10.13 [2]

Application architecture: x64

Logical processor count: 8

Processor speed: 3.5 GHz

Built-in memory: 32,768.0 MB

Real memory available to Lightroom: 32,768.0 MB

Real memory used by Lightroom: 2,568.0 MB (7.8%)

Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 8,249.0 MB

Memory cache size: 5,791.1 MB

Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 8

Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2

Displays: 1) 2560x1440

Graphics Processor Info:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M OpenGL Engine

Just Shoot Me

Legend

What camera are you using and how do you get the images from camera memory card to computer.

Card reader or connecting the camera directly to the computer.

Would you please take a screen shot of the import windows and post it to this thread.

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