I use Photos, Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC. When importing photos via Airplay from another Apple device I get numerous duplicate images in Photos. How do I stop this? I see some discussion from 5-6 years ago and am hoping that Apple has figured this out by now.
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15
Hi - airplay isn't an import method. Do you mean air drop?
I have to say - there is not much sense in using both photos and Lightroom. They are apps doing the same job - image organisation and basic editing.
Are you transferring images by different methods to your mac - eg by USB or by iCloud. Do you also use the Lightroom cloud sync services? If so what is synced when, by what app to where?
Tony, your information is very helpful. I am trying to sort all of this out in my mind. If I gave up the synching in Icloud I would not have access to the iphone photos on my other devices (Ipad, Mac). I would gain access if I manually transferred the images to Lightroom CC or to Lightroom Classic and then put them in a collection which would synch to my devices. I need to think this through carefully. Thanks.
Thanks for your response and the link. The conversion from Heic to jpg could be the reason why the duplicates are showing up in Lightroom CC. I need to do some more testing to understand what is happening.
Tony, you are correct, I meant Air Drop. I think I have figured out some things but others remain a mystery. It appears that my duplication of images are happening in Lightroom Classic, not in Photos. My wife took many images that I wanted to bring into Lightroom. I moved her images to my Mac using Air Drop. Then imported those images into Lightroom Classic. I can't figure out why I am getting lots of duplicate images in the folder that receives all my mobile uploads in LR. Then I realized that the duplicates are virtual copies. I will need to get advice from Adobe on that matter. The reason I use both programs is that when I take an image with my iphone camera I just assumed that it goes to the ICloud and then gets synched across my Apple devices. Am I able to take an iphone image and have it upload directly to the Adobe Cloud for downloading into Lightroom? I am a fairly advanced photographer and use Lightroom, Photoshop, and a variety of other editing software to create my images. I don't think that I can accomplish this level with Photos. Thanks for your help.
Hi
You will need to check with Adobe support/help to see if they have a phone app that will sync your camera roll with Adobe Cloud - or otherwise automatically transfer, though I wouldn't be surprised if they do. If they do then you may be better dropping photos altogether.
Alternatively you could stop using iCloud to sync, and transfer images from your phone to a mac via USB using the image capture app (rather than photos). Image capture will just transfer the images to a suitable folder, which can then be imported into lightroom, bypassing photos and iCloud altogether. This would then be a similar workflow to how you would use any camera.
duplicate photos in Photos
