File already exists in this location

[RitaM]

Lightroom Version

10.0

Operating System

1. macOS 10.15 Catalina

Hello! I am adding all of my older photos to my Lr Classic catalog. My folders organized by year, then date. I have one "old folder" of photos imported from an old laptop (almost 5000 photos). Many but not all of them are already in Lr. When I go to move them and they are already in the folder by date I get the message "file already exists in this location" and the only option is OK. How do I go about deleting the duplicates? I just want to make sure if I delete them out of "old folder" I won't delete the same file that is in the correct folder. Thank you for your help!

 

[clee01l]

IIRC, Lightroom will move only the selected images into the new folder that don’t already exist in that folder. Left behind will be the file that the operating system rule would not allowed to be moved. You can test this out with a small subset of the folders that you want to move.

 

[RitaM]

Can I then delete the "old folder" files that are left behind and it won't remove the duplicate photos that are in the proper file? thank you!

 

[clee01l]

Can I then delete the "old folder" files that are left behind and it won't remove the duplicate photos that are in the proper file? thank you!

Yes, and if the folder is empty of other files, you can delete the source folder as well


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