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P: Search for Duplicate Photos after import

Explorer ,
Jan 09, 2022 Jan 09, 2022

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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. 

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Explorer ,
Jan 11, 2024 Jan 11, 2024

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Try once Remo Duplicate Photos Remover or Duplicate Photos Fixer for iOS

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New Here ,
Mar 25, 2024 Mar 25, 2024

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A lot of advices and nothing helped.

I ended up using this: Duplicate Image Finder 

I do not know how I have missed it - it can scan not only lightroom catalogs, but also folders and network drives. Performs true image analysis and can find similar photos even if they are stored in different image formats. I do not know how I have missed this tool - it has way more features than anything else I've tried.

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New Here ,
Mar 30, 2024 Mar 30, 2024

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Sad this isn't a thing yet. I've been moving photos from Google to Apple photos (my second copy of everything) and auto import as resulted in 40,000 odd duplicate photos in Lightroom. I certainly won't be paying extra for LR if I go over my 1TB, so might just cancel it and use Apple and Google as my two cloud copies (on top of my local copy and backups)

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New Here ,
Apr 22, 2024 Apr 22, 2024

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Sometimes images get imported more than just once. This can have many reasons, e.g. iCloud imports can be done from the iPad and from the iPhone. The result is that all imported images are stores twice in Lightroom. To select and remove these duplicates is a very time consuming process. Adobe Support told me, that there is currently no funktion within Lightroom to find and remove duplicates. This option should be available (similar to Photos from Apple).

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Participant ,
Jun 23, 2024 Jun 23, 2024

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Can I add my support for this feature please.

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 30, 2024 Jul 30, 2024

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upvote this feature request from this guy

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Explorer ,
Aug 03, 2024 Aug 03, 2024

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How is this not a feature even 6 years later - adobe, cmon.. seriously. I'm trying hard to use cc but it's tragic still, even now. No virtual copies, no duplicates - it's just not good enough.

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Community Beginner ,
Sep 30, 2024 Sep 30, 2024

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The lack of very basic options like this is why I'm trying to get away from Adobe. But it's not easy when I have invested so much into it. It just leaves my annoyed.

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New Here ,
Oct 24, 2024 Oct 24, 2024

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Unbelievable that they have not added this feature. Absolute dealbreaker for me.

 

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