Describe consolidating duplicate originals in the manual and the register
FR-CAT-11a records what #67 built: groups of the same file listed on demand, proved the same before anything moves, merged onto one survivor and the rest trashed a group at a time. The manual's new section under The library says how to reach the page, how the copy that stays is chosen, what the check reads and what merges.
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With faces indexed, narrowing the grid to a person puts `Eyes open` beside
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their name on the filter bar, which leaves out the frames where they blinked.
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### Duplicate originals
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A library put together by hand often holds the same RAW more than once — a
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dated folder, a `bck` folder beside it, a renamed copy another program
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exported. When the catalog finds files with the same camera, capture time
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and size in more than one place, `Duplicate originals` appears under the
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trash in the sidebar with how many there are; Settings offers the same page
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beside the other whole-library passes.
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The page lists each group with its picture and its paths. One copy is
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marked `Stays`: the one outside a folder named like a backup (`bck`,
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`backup`, `copy`, `old`…), then the one still named the way the camera named
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it (`_MG_4623`, `IMG_0001`, `DSC_0042`), then the one catalogued first. Tap
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another path to keep that copy instead, and untick `Include` to leave a
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group alone.
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Nothing moves until `Check` has read the first and last megabyte of every
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copy and each copy's sidecar. A group whose files differ, or whose copies
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carry two different edits, is marked skipped and says why — two edits of
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one frame are kept for virtual copies. What the check reads is kept, so a
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second visit costs nothing. The line under each group says what the copy
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that stays will gain: the highest rating, every keyword and collection, a
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flag or label the copies agree on, faces and the names on them, and the
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edit if only a copy had one. Where the copies disagree on a flag or a
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label, the one that stays keeps its own and the line says so.
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`Move N copies to trash` does it, one group at a time: each group is merged
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and its spare copies moved together, or not at all. The copies go to the
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trash, not away — select them in the trash view and `Restore` puts them
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back where they were.
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## Developing a photograph
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Click a thumbnail to open it. The column on the right is every adjustment;
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