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by joseph motto on Thu Jul 24, 2014 9:21 am

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I use LR and PS for my photo processing. In working on images and folders I have, in a couple of instances, inadvertently created duplicates of large numbers of images in some folders. Is there a simple way to delete the unwanted duplicates rather than tediously highlighting and deleteing them?

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by Jeff Colburn on Thu Jul 24, 2014 2:54 pm

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If the duplicates have the same numbers/titles then you could remove the folder from LR, delete the duplicates in Windows Explorer, then import the folder back into LR.

You could also do a sort in LR, and select the duplicates and delete them as a group.

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by Jens Peermann on Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:39 pm

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The duplicates normally have an extension after the file name to distinguish them from the original. It's something like "_2". just put that into a search - without anything else that in the filename - and you should get all the unwanted duplicates. Select All and delete.

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by joseph motto on Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:58 am

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Thanks Jeff and Jens.

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