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1. Re: Find photos with matching capture times?
Gene McCullagh Nov 27, 2009 9:41 AM (in response to WilderW)One way to narrow down the pool of images (unless all 25,000 were shot the same day) is to look in the EXIF section of the Metadata panel. Next to the field titled Date Time Original is a small right pointing arrow. (It's after the date and time shown in the field). Clicking this will filter down to only images taken on that date. It's not as granular as capture time but it will at least get you to a single date easily.
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2. Re: Find photos with matching capture times?
WilderW Nov 27, 2009 10:35 AM (in response to Gene McCullagh)Thanks for this suggestion. My folder heirarchy is already organized by date so I could do what you suggest - but it still basically involves looking at each day and effectively glancing (however briefly) at too many shots.
I've decided instead that I will hunt down duplicates or near duplicates in the file system itself - remove what should go and then ask Lightroom to resync the folder heirarchy which should remove the duplictes. I always write metadata changes directly to the photos and I have backups of the catalogs and the photos should my approach create problems.


