That has probably happened to all photographers. You may repeat it, but what is widespread is that there are many risks of creating duplicates on your computer with or without Elements.
i only hope my experience will escalate adobe's effort to solve this. they were not even aware that this is a widespread problem. i had a total of over two hours between online chats and an extended telephone call with adobe techs and they DO NOT have an explanation much less a solution. This is not, i repeat, a solution or even an explanation of the duplicate problem. In some circumstances, especially in older versions (mainly MACS) the downloader does not or did not filter already imported files from cards.
What you'll find about importing duplicates are many complaints about the downloader (from camera or card reader). If we forget the organizer for a moment, we can see that photo editing and organizer tools have many reasons to create several kinds of duplicates that explains the number of dedicated softwares to kill or manage duplicates. They are 'visual' duplicates or versions. Those are not duplicates like those you are seeing: real duplicates according to the size/date definition. I am pretty sure that what she means is that YOU (the user) can create duplicate files of the images you are editing. Nothing like what you are experiencing now. Only relocated them to different folders within Organizer. "A common problem that arises when using Photoshop Elements is that it creates duplicate files of the images you are editing."īut I don't recall editing any of the photos that are duplicates. The first file found is imported, the duplicate is rejected and you get messages that files have not been imported because they are already in the catalog - they were not in the empty catalog, but they appeared in the course of the import process.įor what it's worth, I found some information about duplicate files. I have never read of a similar case in this and other Elements forums.ġ - The organizer is programmed to prohibit importing (indexing) duplicate files in the catalog.Ģ - Duplicate file for a catalog are file with the same size in Kbytes and date_takenģ - The result is what you are seeing: you have more files in your folder than in the catalogĤ - In the import process, the files are scanned to check if they are similar to those in the catalog (which explains that duplicates can be found in a batch process with an empty catalog at start. In other posts I have said that only the downloader can import duplicates on certain circumstances if you import from camera or card reader.Įven the 'watched folders' service only searches and indexes files in the catalog (only links). not only editing programs like Picasa) I don't understand at all how you have put your files on the computer after 'cleaning' the Pictures folder. I have seen cases where the duplicates have been created by other processes (sync with the Cloud, Acronis services creating new drive letters. It has found duplicates and I can't explain what is going on in your computer. My answer is that I don't believe the organizer has created any duplicate. Why does Organizer make duplicates? They consume disk space, a precious commodity for those of us who have a very modestly sized Solid-state drive. I deleted them only to find that Organizer now says these photos are missing.and I have to reconnect each. These duplicate photos do NOT show in Organizer, only on my hard drive.
SETUP PHOTOELEMENTS 2018 AS THE DIFAULT EDITOR FOR IPHOTOS ON MY MAC WINDOWS 10
So I check my Windows 10 Pictures folder and find hundreds of exact duplicates (same size, dimensions, etc) of the photos I moved. That's what you do with an organizer, right?! Upon opening Organizer for the first time, I decided to better organize my photos and moved around hundreds of them. But the original photos are actually duplicated, not overwritten!! Why?! I've been told in a response to a related questions I asked in another thread that when I move photos within Organizer the files will be renamed with a -1 suffix.
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