Duplicating images on import.

Hi, Can anyone help me , when I import images from my camera they duplicate I had the same problem when I was using Windows 7 and thought this to be a isolated problem with windows. the import works fine but duplicates everything I import, anyone know of a cure ?

And the answer to this?
Are you by any chance shooting two copies of each photo (RAW plus JPEG) - if so then of course you are importing duplicates - and teh solution is to quit shooting duplicates - choose a format and use it
What shows on teh camera does not matter since it knwos how you have it set and displays one even if you are shooting RAW plus JPEG - the key is the camera setting as I ask and you did not answer
and to this?
Are you seeing this in iPhoto - or using the finder (never, never, never use the finder inside the iPhoto library)
As to settings - iPhoto does NOT duplicate images - any settings would be on yoru camera and the soluiton for that is to RTFM
LN

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