Has Any body Had this problem (Page 2): I'm not a lightroom user, however, having had similar problems with other image manipulation apps on my legacy Mac, I can tell you it's a...

Matches Malone

I'm not a lightroom user, however, having had similar problems with other image manipulation apps on my legacy Mac, I can tell you it's a function of the OS. Those files should be erased completely when you quit Lightroom, or they're stored in a temp directory that SHOULD be trashed automagically.

Without charging you my extremely steep consultant rate, I can't help you further.

bertloomis Loc: Fort Worth, Texas

fstoprookie wrote:

I have discovered that Lightroom has been depositing more than one copy of my photo files on my Hard Drive. As I was trying to get my data base on my Late 2012 iMac ready to transfer to my new 2019 iMac, I discovered this issue. Has anybody found a way to get rid of the duplicate photo files without manually selecting each one and moving it to the trash bin?

Go to the photos in Lightroom in the library module and hit P which puts a flag on any photo where you do this. Do this for all the photos you want to delete. Then, in the lower right corner of LR select to display only the flagged photos. Highlight them all then right click, go to the bottom of the list and select, 'delete from disc'.

David Kay Loc: Arlington Heights IL

jerseymike wrote:

I would think when people are trying to help you with your problem; thank you would be a better response than; "dah"

Agree with you Mike.

dtsobel Loc: West Hills California

Sounds like your import settings is set to copy to a second location.

hassighedgehog Loc: Corona, CA

From a PC perspective, are the files really the same? Or do they have different extensions? I have files that are not really duplicates. One might be .raw, another .JPG. The original is the .raw, the modified one .JPG. You might be deleting important information in error.

jerseymike

bertloomis wrote:

Go to the photos in Lightroom in the library module and hit P which puts a flag on any photo where you do this. Do this for all the photos you want to delete. Then, in the lower right corner of LR select to display only the flagged photos. Highlight them all then right click, go to the bottom of the list and select, 'delete from disc'.

I think P designates a pick(save). Delete is an X

jerseymike

David Kay wrote:

Agree with you Mike.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

Dngallagher wrote:

If the duplicates are in your Lightroom catalog, take a look at this plugin, it works in many cases to find dupes based on several different criteria

https://www.bungenstock.de/teekesselchen/

I had a recent thread on this program........

It works great.......what it does is search and compare...as it finds duplicates it adds a keyword, duplicate, in the keywords..if you then search on keywords for "duplicate" they will appear, and you can manually compare and verify, delete, or mark one as rejected, or delete all the rejected at once.......

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

CPR wrote:

I don't use Lightroom but doesn't Lightroom store the changes you make to the photo in a "sidecar". Does that have the same name?????

The side car file does not show in the library...

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

hassighedgehog wrote:

From a PC perspective, are the files really the same? Or do they have different extensions? I have files that are not really duplicates. One might be .raw, another .JPG. The original is the .raw, the modified one .JPG. You might be deleting important information in error.

Good thought, and probably right.......

David Kay Loc: Arlington Heights IL

What is interesting in this thread is the original poster has never responded to the ideas presented other than to make a snide comment.

fstoprookie Loc: Central Valley of California

frankraney wrote:

Good thought, and probably right.......

OK here is the lowdown on my problem - I was using an external drive to process my LR files, I also had a backup drive to back up my scratch Drive. Since LR is on my iMac HD it was importing my pictures (I thought were going to my Scratch drive) - BUT in fact the pictures were going to all 3 drives - well KMA - What a revelation - The computer was doing what it was suppose to & I had instructed it to do that. I get an AS for that dunderhead mistake - It wasn't a LR problem - It was OPERATOR ERROR - So to those that I made not so nice comments to - I'm truly Sorry; Thank you all for your suggestions

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

fstoprookie wrote:

OK here is the lowdown on my problem - I was using... (show quote)

Looks like Connie nailed it. Glad you figured it out.....now....... If it were me, I would only import to my working drive, and let my backup program do the copying..... This will speed up your imports... Set your backup to work at midnight..... If you have two backup drives, have a routine to back up the forest one, and another routine to backup the second one.