P: Search for Duplicate Photos

"I am very disappointed to see that there are no longer any tools built into Lightroom Classic and Adobe Lightroom to search for duplicate photos in the photo library"

What tools or features are you referring to that seem to have been removed?   I know of none.

With the evolution of Lightroom Classic and the arrival of AI, I am very disappointed to see that there are no longer any tools built into Lightroom Classic and Adobe Lightroom to search for duplicate photos in the photo library: this is all the more necessary now that we are constantly transferring photos between these two tools and Adobe Lightroom allows us to import photos from a mobile phone (iPhone, etc.).
With metadata and image recognition, we have everything we need to correctly detect duplicates in all folders in a library and suggest them for deletion.
I am sure you can do this quickly and efficiently... and millions of users will thank you for it.

Patrick

@carls8319116 Assuming you're using the desktop version, 2 out of 3 are already possible. 

2. Find orphan files that are not allocated to an album or Folder;

In the text search field, start typing "not" and in the pop-up below, select the Not in any album search. Or you can create a Smart Album that does the same.

3. Select a photo and see which albums or folders it belongs to.

With a photo selected, look at the bottom of the Info panel.

Hi there, 

I would like to recommend three features for Lightroom:

1. Find duplicates files in the ecosystem, either by folder or by entire system;

2. Find orphan files that are not allocated to a album or Folder;

3. Select a photo and see which albums or folders it belongs to.

These three features would vastly improve the efficiency of the workflow and save tons of time when organizing our storage environment. 

It seems I didn't post in the wrong place but rather my post was moved here. To clarify, I don't need a solution to find duplicates, but want to know how to identify images from the local tab that were previously imported so that I avoid duplicates (and the extra work it takes to then identify and delete them).

Cheers.

Sorry, posted here by mistake...

Hi all, 

I have images in my Lightroom cloud account that were directly imported into Lightroom Mobile from my camera card during an initial cull in the field. All my images are stored on a hard drive after I return home, and these can be viewed through the local tab in Lightroom desktop.

When I want to review all the images after returning home, I can choose the "Add photo" option from the Cloud tab, and lightroom desktop recognises the previously imported images in that file structure and wont let me re-import them. But if I browse these same folders on my hard drive through the Local tab, Lightroom does not recognise the versions previously imported and now in the cloud, meaning I can easily end up with many duplicates in the cloud.

Is there a way to search/identify from the Local tab these previously imported images? The "Copied to cloud" filter only seems to return images copied to the cloud from the Local tab, and won't find the images imported directly from the card in the field (even though the add photos option from the cloud tab will identify them from the same folder structure). This would not be an issue, except that the add photos option from cloud tab does not allow large previews, does not show the file name or pick flags, so I cant easily identify which version of a photo I need to import (I mainly shoot wildlife, so usually have hundreds of similar images to choose the best from).

For ref, I am using Lightroom desktop v. 8.3.1 on a MacBook Pro M3, and Lightroom Mobile on an iPad Air (5th Gen).

Cheers!

Greetings all,

This Early Access feature was released two weeks ago on Lightroom Web. 
Log into your Adobe ID at https://lightroom.adobe.com 
Click on the Clean Up icon 
Then select Duplicates

For more information see: https://lightroom.adobe.com/news 

Find duplicates would be extrememly usefull feature. I can't imagine why it is not available yet.