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olivierlacan
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August 31, 2018
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P: Search for Duplicate Photos

  • August 31, 2018
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I can't remember the last time I ever had to worry about duplicates but recently I imported pictures manually from my camera roll and it clearly has imported hundreds of duplicates (with identical filenames mind you). This exclusively happened to HEIC and JPGs from my iPhone's camera roll so it feels like a bug specific to iOS perhaps.

 

All this brings up the very odd choice of not offering the same deduplicate feature available within the import flow *after* the images are already in the library. In my case, that's hundreds of photos I have to hunt for manually, when the process would be instantaneous if the dupe finder was available outside of the import flow. 

 

It would also be incredibly useful to be able to group photos from the library that are not *quite* duplicates but very identical (think bursts or multiple edits of the same shot) and allow me to find them, pick the ones I want to keep and either delete or mark the others as rejected. 

 

I'm not quite sure what version of Lightroom for iOS I was running when the duplicated import issue happened but I'm currently on v7.1.0 if that's any help. 

52 replies

Participant
September 3, 2018

Hi,

I migrated my icloud photo collection (120.000 images) to Lightroom CC recently. Somehow my Lightroom collection contains a lot of duplicates images (master doubles, master/low res doubles etc...).

How can I find and remove duplicates and/or similar images in Lightroom CC (not Classic)? It is not a realistic option to manually find these duplicates with these amount of photos so there must be a way to let the computer do that?

Best,

Mohit Goyal
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 9, 2018

Hi CvT,

Sorry to hear that. Could you please explain how you started the import in Lightroom CC? Did you exported all the images out from iCloud and then imported them into Lightroom CC. Does the duplicate images have a different name?

Please refer the below discussion to get some idea about the correct import workflow for Lightroom CC from different applications.

Remove Uploaded Duplicates After Migrating To Lightroom CC

Regards,

Mohit

Participant
October 16, 2018

Hello, I'm coming from LR classic, just made the transition to CC. I have nearly all my pictures in duplicates. That's really bad, and I just can't delete them one by one... What can I do ?

Participant
August 31, 2018
It would be great to have "Search for duplicates" function in Lightroom CC. I have more than 30k images in my library. They were imported from different Lightroom Classic catalogs. I'm sure there are duplicates in there. Even more - would be great to have function "Search for similar images". The one which can be found in Gemini product.
October 21, 2018
Both great feature requests Sergiy. 

Photo organization can really use some more machine learning love:
  1. Find duplicates
  2. Find similar images
  3. Find pets
  4. Group photos by dominant color
  5. Find blurry pictures
  6. Are people smiling or not, do they have their eyes open (especially handy for within a burst stack)
The best photos feature currently in technology preview is a good start!