lightroom doupes plugin

vdotmatrix

Has anyone use this plugin to eliminate duplicates from catalog?6

basflt

its dupes
http://www.lightroom-plugins.com/DupesIndex.php
try and find out

vdotmatrix

basflt wrote: »

its dupes
http://www.lightroom-plugins.com/DupesIndex.php
try and find out

YES I installed it but was wondering if anyone is using this program?

I had to import the images on a ext. HD of about 12,000 images but must have had the prevent duplicates box UNCHECKED now I have about 61,000 images in this catalog.

I ran this program it comes up with 41k duplicates and I want to just scream.

Does anyone see a solution to this madness?

basflt

i just ran the trial version
as i expected ; no real duplicates

all it found , along side my RAWs were ;
PSD files and edited files ( TIFFs ) created with PhotoShop , which are not duplicates IMO

click the "Found Duplicates" icon in left pane , under Collection and compare your dupes

from there you can also delete them , if you please

vdotmatrix

So a question I posted elsewhere concerns this duplicates issue and how to quickly resolve this today.

The images are still in the Previous Import Collection.

If I delete this collection and the 41,000 images or catalog entries, will this return me to the PRE-IMPORT state I was in before this accident?

Thanks you

BradfordBenn

Yes, if you have them in the Previous Import Collection and select delete it will remove them. I have double imported a few times and that has worked. Just make sure you chose your delete option carefully.

vdotmatrix

BradfordBenn wrote: »

Yes, if you have them in the Previous Import Collection and select delete it will remove them. I have double imported a few times and that has worked. Just make sure you chose your delete option carefully.

Just when I understand what someone says , they throw a curve at the end

Now what do you mean by "delete option carefully?"

thanks

BradfordBenn

The software will ask you if you want to remove them from the catalog. Then it will ask if you want to delete the images from the disk. I can't answer that question for you, so I leave that to you. What I have done when I am not sure is deleted them and then taken them from the trash to a USB drive.

Backup early, backup often, label backups.

basflt

try this
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/dupfilefinder.html