Duplicate thumbnails

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Duplicate thumbnails

Somehow, I've made a library management error. The photos in this particular project are filed in chronologically named folders (2007, 2008 etc with sub-sets of albums). The thumbnails in each of the albums are fine - no problem. But in the project itself, 75% of the 2008 thumbnails have been accidentally duplicated, some three times over. Although there are a raft of problems associated with A3, I don't think this is one of them - and is more likely to be something I've carelessly done.

Any bright ideas out there as to what I might have done to cause this headache? And is there any convenient way (other than laboriously selecting and deleting) to eliminate the duplicate copies of thumbnails? And how will I accurately determine which is the duplicate anyway?

iMac 2.93GHz, Mac OS X (10.6.1), Airport Express, plus two 3Gs iPhones

Posted on Mar 9, 2010 3:34 PM

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Mar 9, 2010 4:20 PM in response to mgreernz

Hi,

Two ideas.

The first possibility is that you have 'create new version on adjustment' turned on in the Advanced section of Preferences. You only need to make a very slight change and a new version is made if that is on.

Could you have somehow inadvertently created additional versions. If you do not have Metadata Expanded View turned on you would not see the subtitles on the thumbnails. This control is access from the label icon with a star logo on it the farthest left of the group at the bottom right corner of the window in Browser mode and one place farther right in Split Mode. Versions are normally labelled such to assist identification. If you attempt to discard a Master which you can do, you get a warning first.

AW.

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