bsmith52 Loc: Northeast Alabama

Nikon D7000. What setting caused this duplicate nef files. It doesn't seem like raw + jpeg as all the files are listed as nef and are the same size.
Screenshot attached. Thanks

Rongnongno Loc: FL

By any chance do you have the backup setup for the second drive? If so that is likely why.

bsmith52 Loc: Northeast Alabama

That list is from my hard drive file structure loaded from one disk. Would my drive auto load them that way if from 2 different cards?

Rongnongno Loc: FL

I have no clue but when you select to have a backup the numbering looks like that hence my guess.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

That can happen when the same files are downloaded twice to the same directory.

brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky

Typically, if files are duplicated in the same folder, Windows will add a (2) to the end of the file name. (Is this an Apple PC?) There must be some software you're using that is adding the '-001'.

So, what software are you using to migrate from camera to hard drive? If you look at the contents of the memory card, does the file exist only once, or is it there twice as your image indicates?

Erik_H Loc: Denham Springs, Louisiana

I just set my D7000 to use the second drive for backup and fired off a couple of shots. The filenames were the same on both cards. Interesting...

bsmith52 Loc: Northeast Alabama

Windows PC. Sometimes I would use the windows default loader, other times open with Picasa. That does make sense that somehow the software/downloader would duplicate and add the .oox number.

Currently reorganizing my 30K+ pictures and migrating to LR CC. Going to take a while but once I get done, worth the work I'm sure.

Thanks to all for the responses

brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky

:thumbup: Good luck. Lotsa work, but as you say, it'll be worth it.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Don't try to do it quickly. Take the time to do it right. In particular, be as complete as possible with the keywords. It will pay off later.

I just went through my pictures because I had neglected things for so long. I had about 55K in my catalog. I split the catalog up into years and went through one year at a time. There were dupes from the early days when I didn't really know what I was doing, there were bursts, there were junk shots, all sorts of problems. The early years took about a day a year (not so many pix). The later years when I had higher frame rates and larger cards took several days per year. A lot of the pictures were pretty skimpily keyworded. In particular I had to add as many names to the keywords as I could. The whole process took me 6 weeks. I then combined the years into a master catalog. (I'm pretty free in the winter. If I had a job it would have taken longer). I got the catalog down to 18K. I did it in two steps: (1) delete junk; (2) complete keywording.

But now I have a fairly well organized catalog. Much better than before. I just have to keep disciplined when adding new images.

Macronaut Loc: Redondo Beach,Ca.

So, let me see if I have this right. In your camera, you had one card slot set for raw and the other slot set for back up, also raw? And then, did you upload straight from your camera? If so, then this makes perfect sense to me. The 001 would distinguish between two identical files.

Or, did I completely miss something?

bsmith52 Loc: Northeast Alabama

I'm doing pretty much the same...organizing, deleting junk on my hard drive, going by year then subfoldering into occasions.
Then will import and export in LR.

You're right...whew, exhausting/time consuming.

And to top it all off, when that is done, I plan on making a family Smug Mug site for posterity. Gonna be at this for a while

bsmith52 Loc: Northeast Alabama

I don't remember ever backing up straight from camera, usually insert my sd cards.

But as you have been reading, my work flow process has been all over the map. Could have happened. Correcting that issue now.

Macronaut Loc: Redondo Beach,Ca.

Well, I suppose that if the camera was set to back duplicate on both SD cards, it might not matter whether you inserted the cards one at a time or straight from camera.

If your work flow is all over the place, we may never know what happened :wink: :-)

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Yep mystery explained. He inserted both cards which had duplicate files and thus duplicated the files on the hard drive.