Duplicates in the Catalog

Hi, I recently uploaded my pictures into Lightroom from 1 location on my hard drive but all the pictures have come with duplicates. There are no duplicates on the hard drive. In the catalog both the pictures show the same name and if I click on Show in Explorer, both files point out to the same location where the picture is saved. I have more than 100 images in the catalog. Is there any way through which I could remove all the duplicates rather than deleting each duplicate image manually.
Regards
Akhil

If it just happened as a result of one import action and it was the last time, you can go to most recent import in the catalog tab, select all and remove. As far as why it happened, not having "ignore dupes" checked on import would be the first thing to suspect, but you're saying in one import action it created more than one copy of each photo? That would be some sort of error. Are you also sure they aren't raws+jpegs? In any case, with only 100 in the catalog, doing it by hand wouldn't be hard, but you want to figure out how to avoid it from now on.

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