Find & Remove DUPLICATE Images in Lightroom 

In this video, I talk about how Lightroom Classic doesn't have built-in functionality to find and remove duplicate images but there are plugins available. In the video, I mention two plugins and demo one. Also, I probably didn't give the plugin that I did demo a fair shake in that one can experiment and set the search attributes in such a way to more easily find real duplicates than what I indicated in the video. I demoed this plugin: www.bungenstock.de/teekesselchen/ I mentioned this plugin: www.lightroom-plugins.com/DupesIndex.php I also mentioned this website: havecamerawilltravel.com/lightroom/find-duplicate-photos/ **I have no affiliation with the plugins above or the website. ** I am an affiliate for all of the other companies mentioned here EXCEPT Affinity Photo. Please read my Code of Ethics Statement: onlinephotographytraining.com/code-of-ethics/ Tap into Adobe's Creative Cloud: bit.ly/2zwQ0nW Anthony Morganti’s MUST HAVE applications: At least one Non-Destructive RAW Editor Lightroom - bit.ly/2zwQ0nW Capture One - captureone.38d4qb.net/y1Djy (Save 10% with Promo Code: MORGANTI10) Luminar - bit.ly/2JUJxKw (Save with the Promo Code AM16) On1 Photo RAW - bit.ly/2zJmA9I (Save 20% with Promo Code: AM17) Exposure X6 - bit.ly/2U8UxrK (Save 10% with Promo Code: AnthonyMorganti) PhotoLab 4: tidd.ly/2HhiN9X At least one FULL Editing App: Photoshop - bit.ly/2zwQ0nW Affinity Photo - affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ My MUST-HAVE Plugins: Topaz Gigapixel AI - bit.ly/3cDqa5J Topaz Sharpen AI - bit.ly/3cDqa5J Topaz Denoise AI - bit.ly/3cDqa5J *Save 15% on all Topaz Labs apps - use the Promo Code: AMDISC15 or instead of Topaz Denoise AI: On1 NoNoise AI - bit.ly/2zJmA9I (Save 20% with Promo Code: AM17) Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 - tidd.ly/3dc4gYm My MUST-HAVE Mac Utility: CleanMyMac X - Info: bit.ly/3jtVpU3 To save 10% on your purchase of CleanMyMac X: 1. Visit the CleanMyMac X store: bit.ly/3bEMuMx 2. Scroll down to the very bottom of the page and click on "Enter it now" under "Already have a coupon code?" 3. Paste the promo code TONY10 and hit "Verify" 4. The prices will be reduced, and you’ll be able to select the license and proceed with the payment ** Note that all of the promo codes listed above may not work on sale products. *** I am an affiliate for all of the companies listed EXCEPT Affinity Photo. Please read my Code of Ethics Statement: onlinephotographytraining.com/code-of-ethics/ Please follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/anthonymorganti/ View my recommended gear list: www.amazon.com/shop/anthonymorganti As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. I use this software to record my screen and make parts of my screen enlarge and zoom out so you can see it: Screenflow: telestream.pxf.io/DMrW2 Unsure of how to price your photography? Check the 2019 Guide to Pricing Your Photography: amzn.to/2S1CiU7 I am an affiliate for all of the companies listed EXCEPT Affinity Photo. Please read my Code of Ethics Statement here: onlinephotographytraining.com/code-of-ethics/ Thank you!

Worked great for me. I accidentally imported files twice and it was a mess. I’m happy with this plug-in thank you

Anthony-I will look at the video later today, but I just wanted to give you my support for your "bad day". You are a really incredible person and it shows in your videos. In the short term, I know you will take solace from your son's good health report.

New LR 11, comes up with a duplicate smart collection without Teekesselchen being loaded. Is this now a part of the new LR?

I’ve concluded that my brain is best for such things using flags and then deleting. The software is good but cannot understand enough of my logic to really help me so I’m in your camp Anthony. Thanks again for all your great work I’ve learned a lot

So are the files placed in the smart collection the original plus suspected duplicates of the original? Or are they only what the program identifies as a duplicate?

Hi and glad you and yours are doing well. Re the "Plugins" folder, brand new computer and LR install, no such folder anywhere on the system. May I presume one has to create the folder for an initial install of any plugin?

Anthony, I have been following you for months and appreciate your weekly presentations very much. Sorry to hear about your personal problems and hope they are resolved soon. I attempted to add the plugin in the same manner you did but it errored out when I used it. I then noticed that you were on an Apple machine so I determined where on my Microsoft machine the plugins where stored, moved the plugin to the folder (c:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Lightroom Classic). I enabled the plugin using the Plugin Manger. A executed the plugin and it worked.

I use LR and LRC in tandem. I import my photos into LR and then sync with LRC. Some images are duplicated! Why is that?

Hi Anthony. I ran the program on Lightroom. There are a ton of duplicates I can see but it doesn't pick up a single one. Is it something I've ticked in one of those boxes - I've left the settings. All my pics are TIF. Thanks for any advice you can offer. Your videos are so clear.

Hi Anthony, so sorry to hear about your bad experiences last week. I hope all will be much better this week.

Wow. I will have to really have a good study of the tutorial Anthony. Lots of info. You never give bad or incorrect information and it’s going to be studied and put to use. Thank you Anthony.

Thank you Anthony for the explaining how to catch duplicated photos in LR. I imported 6693 photos and 622 videos from Mac Photo app to LR Classic. LR shows 23639 photos in the library. I ran the Teekesselchen plug-in per your instruction and did not catch the duplicates, where I can physically see them in the library. Do you have any idea why these duplications happened during the transfer? Appreciate your feed back.

Wow! I was just looking for a solution to this yesterday but could only find videos that are like 5 years old. Thanks Anthony!

Anthony, is there away to find original raw files? Example I've exported to jpeg then at a later date can't remember where the original raw file is.

Thank you for this great information. Do you know of any plug in that automatically add or suggest keywords?

Thanks, finding duplicates is a problem. Unfortunately, this plugin would require too much effort for me to get it right. Your video pointed out the risks.

I don't use Lightroom Classic - are there any options for the cloud-based version of LR?

If one installs ExifTool and enable it in the plugin, it will read milliseconds from the file (something Lr cannot do on it's own).Thus it would not falsely flag high FPS images as duplicates. I believe Anthony was unaware of this. It would solve one of the issues with the plugin.

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Thanks for telling about these tools, Anthony. I agree that nothing is perfect. I've seen some offline (non-LR plugins) that claim to find duplicates based on pixel analysis, meaning it'll find resized, cropped images, etc. Maybe do a video looking into those?

I think if you shoot 30 frames per second then you will certainly have about 28 duplicates anyway, so i can see this being quite useful for burst shooters. It does seem quite limited though.

Does the "file name" rule include the extension? If not, couldn't you include it to solve the 30 fps type problem since they will all have different file names?

Interesting video. I'm looking for (easy) ways to find duplicates, I've got a lot... I'm curious about the time differences you mentioned. If I shoot 30 frames per second then all files will have the same time if I look at it in the Windows Explorer, but I can still sort on time and Windows will sort them in the correct order. Which mean that there must be more time info than what's visible. Did you check that the program don't look at the complete timestamp? If that's the case then it might be possible (for the programmer) to improve on the program by checking file properties in stead of just looking at the metadata stored in LR.

Sorry to hear about all of your grief. Keep doing what you are doing. As regards this plugin - I have tried it and am not going to use it again. IT's not good enough!

Great video but you need to do a specific video on Lightroom Libraries and how do delete old ones. I have several from several years of using Lightroom. Please.

This may be a silly question but I've often heard of having duplicate images in my folders. Can you tell me how that would occur? I do have some raw or dng files that have been exported as jpegs that are now in LR (not sure how that happened by the way). Is that what we are talking about or does somehow a dng get duplicated as a dng? I would like to get rid of the jpegs now in LR but is that what we are talking about here?

Anthony, please ind someone who can tell you how to pronounce "Teekesselchen" (German for small tea kettle) 😃 ... Thanks for the info 🙏

I use a series of catalogs in LR, 1 corresponding to the photos of the year, another as a general one, where they are built every year, and a third, which corresponds to the best photos that will be used. My question: Is there any way to organize folders differently in their individualized structure, or customized for each catalog? Or am I required to have duplicate photos in custom folders for each catalog?

Can this work in the “Other Lightroom”? Thanks.

Thanks so much for this!!

I'm very surprised you didn't check "file name" and "file size"...in the search parameters.

As a German I have fun with your pronunciation. Anyway thank you for your insights.

I confess that my lightroom catalogue is a mess. And i don't know how i got to this situation. Quite surprising considering all the stuff lightroom can do, it hasn't got a delete duplicates feature. I'd happily pay extra for that function.

Thanks

Thanks!

Haha! Teekesselchen is a german word ans means 'little tea kettle'. It is pronounced 'tay-cassle-chen' ...

Don't get Light Right Duplicate Finder, it is over priced.

Thanks!

Thanks!