Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this tutorial, Colin Smith, shows you how to safely remove duplicates from Lightroom classic and from your computer using the new duplicates feature in Lightroom Classic.

00:00 what you will learn
01:00 Back up catalog
01:48 Choose your strategy
02:47 Prerequisites for the duplicate manager
03:06 Finding Duplicates
04:14 How Lightroom Classic handles photos
04:52 Strategy 1: remove duplicates from Lightroom only
05:27 Make a Collection of all dupes
08:11 Remove from Lightroom
09:58 Show Hidden Duplicates
11:24 Why use Hide Duplicates?
13:07 Strategy 2 Remove Duplicates from Disk
13:55 Remove the duplicate from disk
15:18 Removing the selected image as the duplicate
16:50 Showing Folder Locations on the Thumbnail

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