duplicate photos in the gallery

i was on my pc last night and connected to my phone and was trying to delete phots on the phone thru the pc. and managed to delete all of them using ctrl a . i figured i could just put them back with google but that seemed pointless because i see them on the phone anyway and now i just put new photos on an sd card because it is way easier to get them in the proper ofer for coping to the pc.


anyway as i was doing this i saw a folder called gallery on the file explorer and when i clicked it i had tons of duplicate photos. where is that gallery folder locater so i can just delete that folder to get rid of all those dupes and just copy back the originals? i'm figuring win11 is getting them from my picture section anyway

when i open my other pc it has photos that i have on that pc and it seems just a few are duplicated in the first few lines of photos so on that pc it should be easy enough to delete the dupes. but on this pc there are tons and tons of dupes. so i'm hoping by deleting the gallery folder and then creating it again i will only get the originals. if not then i will just format the drive and re install win10

One issue I've seen on a couple computers is the involvement of OneDrive. I disable it on mine and use a NAS drive for storage and backups of data.

i do not have one drive i deleted the folder and turned of the site and when i installed win10 i never set up a user name or password for one drive.

i just turned on the other pc and that had a few dupe photos. but on this pc they go back to 2005 for photos and every year has 4 or 8 dupes of every photo in that section.

i about to do a format on this pc and re install win 10 it looks like it will be the fastest way to get rid of them

I use an older version of EDF/Easy Duplicate Finder for cleaning folders, they also have a version just for Photos but I haven't needed that yet.

ok i will look for that. but i deleted the picture folder and all the contents and used my backup to restore it and i did have a few dupes but not many and now i do not have any in the gallery. the few i have are form actually having a duplicate folder. as i have a temp folder now and some of the other photo folders i did copy into that temp one to make it a bit easier to work with. i expected that. but i have maybe 500 photos of some old tires i tod photos of and somehow they managed to get duplicated into just about every other fold on this pc. but now i have it under control thanks for the help.