Proliferation of copies

Using the last LR CC on a book of Surface and keep the (equivalent of my images) photos on an external hard drive, because the book hard drive is not large enough.

In folders with recent activity, a lot of pictures LR appear as xxx-2 or - 3 or - 4); they are not marked 'copy' and are not the versions published. they are just duplicates.  Photos have been imported into LR from different sources.  Both the originals and duplicates are now stored in the order on the external hard drive, but only the latter duplicates appear in LR.  If I delete the duplicates it, then, of course, the pictures are 'missing' LR, which seems to only recognize the more recent copies.  (I know not how to "find missing photos", but it's a lot of work and not a realistic option.)  The LR catalog is also stored on this external hard drive, but it's in a separate file, it would be on a hard drive.

I can't find anything in the import dialog that could do this - I do not make copies or import duplicates, for example.  I'm not even sure whether LR which is the cause to happen or else that LR does not seem to '' choose '' with great copy (most recent number) without any input from me.  I don't think I've changed something in my workflow that it would affect.

I'd appreciate it really no thought anyone might have on the possible cause and/or remedy, because I obviously don't want to fill my space of storage with duplicates.  Thank you.

Gail

So let me make sure I understand the question correctly. You have already imported a lot of photos with the suffix-2 in the name of the file, rather than the pictures you want without the suffix-2 in the name of the file. And if you want to remove those that don't want to with the suffix-2 and those without the suffix-2 in name in Lightroom.

This is how I understand the question. Let me know if I am not correct.

So my first reaction is: why is it important? If the 2 files and those without - 2 is really identical, why the extra work to solve the problem? For me this isn't a problem at all. There is nothing that improves "replacing" the-2 with files without-2. What you could do with the files without-2 can be done with files with the-2.

But to directly answer your question, you want (in Lightroom), delete the 2 files, then import the files without the - 2. You will lose your changes and metadata provided by the user in doing so.

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