How can I remove a batch of accidentally duplicated imports in Lightroom?
Asked 10/26/2016
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I accidentally imported many photos into Lightroom twice. I’m new to Lightroom and want to fix this using Lightroom itself, without plugins. The duplicate set seems to have been added in one import session, and I want to remove that whole batch without deleting the wrong originals. Is there a built-in way to find the most recently added images and remove that duplicate import from the catalog?
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Photography Stack Exchange contributor
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From the Library view, click on All Photographs in the Catalog pane.
Down at the bottom of the window, change Sort to "Added Order":
If you don't see this, press T to show the toolbar.
Alternately, select View → Sort → Added Order from the application's main menu.
Click the first duplicate photo you imported, then Shift-click the last one, which should be the last photo in the grid, if you haven't imported anything else since.
You could also do it in reverse, if you prefer: click the last photo in the grid (assuming it's one of the duplicates) and then scroll back up until you find the first duplicate and Shift-click that one.
Press Delete, or select Photo → Remove Photo... from the application menu.
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Yes. In Lightroom, you can usually remove an accidental duplicate import by selecting that import batch in the order it was added.
In the Library module:
- In the Catalog panel, click All Photographs.
- Set the sort order to Added Order.
- If you don’t see the toolbar, press T.
- Or use View > Sort > Added Order.
- Find the range of photos that were imported the second time.
- Click the first duplicate, then Shift-click the last duplicate to select the whole batch.
- Press Delete, or use Photo > Remove Photo...
Be careful to choose Remove from Catalog if you only want to remove the duplicate entries from Lightroom. If you choose to delete from disk, Lightroom may also remove the actual files.
This works best when the duplicates were imported together as one recent batch.
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