Several copies of photos and videos in librar

There are often multiple copies of photos and videos in my pictures and video libraries (I mean a LOT of copies... usually with a number in brackets).  I'm afraid that they use hard disk space.  Is there a way I can stop Windows 7 to automatically perform these copies?  I do not see why I would need never them.

If you keep the files stored on an sd card and keep importing the files of same whenever it might be a good idea to import into the same folder each time, at least you will have a folder that contains all the content of imports and only new files will be imported.

But this implies that you use windows Explorer to copy and paste or drag and drop the files in this folder, every time,

When windows Explorer detects duplicates it will warn you that the actions to take when it detects a duplicate file, unfortunately, once duplicates are present (2) or (3) on the end of them that they are different files now.

Copies (copying) aura about it, not one (2)... it's one of the options windows will give you and it seems that you have selected it when you import.

The option that windows needs to take is to not copy the file and change its name if it finds a duplicate you want to jump, check the box to use this action on any other duplicates it finds.

Windows has a bad habit of not reading inside closed files, that is why you have so many duplicates.

There are to many third duplicate file finder software utility out there to help remove them, use your favorite search engine to search for one.

The best thing to do is to select those pictures and right click and delete.

To select several files at once, hold down the CTRL key when you click on the left, select a bunch and delete them all with a right click and delete.

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