Stop importing duplicate photos from camera using Bridge CS5?

Hi,
I'm having a few importing photo's using Bridge CS5, as I'm on holidays at the moment I'm trying to keep my photo's on both my laptop as well as leaving a copy on the SD card of the camera (as a form of backup), however whenever I import photo's from the camera Bridge is creating a duplicate (e.g. file-2.jpg, file-3.jpg etc). Is there any way to stop this behaviour and only import new photo's?
Thanks,
Dino

Hi Curt, that should work but I was hoping that there might be an option somewhere to not import photo's which are duplicates.. I guess maybe not..
Thanks for for your help anyway.

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