Title: Duplicate Images
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Duplicate Images

 *  Resolved [vazaldcaelp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vazaldcaelp/)
 * (@vazaldcaelp)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-images-8/)
 * Hi
 * Thank you very much. The plugin is very useful.
 * I have t-shirt, long-sleeves, tank-tops and hoodies. Each one with different 
   sizes like S,M and XL.
 * For each variation I add the URL of the images and I tried with just the name
   too. But it is importing anyway one image per variations to the media folder 
   just changing the ID. Instead of have 4 different picture I got 12.
 * Regards
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woocommerce-csvimport](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woocommerce-csvimport)
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 *  [b2tech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/b2tech/)
 * (@b2tech)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-images-8/#post-5307937)
 * This was causing some confusion for me as well.
 * From what I can tell if you use just the file name in your CSV file “Featured
   Image” or “Product Gallery” columns it does not appear to create duplicate images.
 * You have to be sure to set the “product_gallery” and “featured_image” headings
   to the “product_gallery_name’ and “featured_image_name” columns before doing 
   your import. It seems safest to upload and set the headings every time an import
   is done to be sure.
 * When I was using the full url for the images it appeared to duplicate things 
   so my products ended up with images like file_name-1.jpg and then after doing
   another import file_name-1-2.jpg etc.
 * I thought it was a bug at first but maybe just a misunderstanding / confusion
   about how the image columns work.
 *  Plugin Author [allaerd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allaerd/)
 * (@allaerd)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-images-8/#post-5307938)
 * if you use the URL to import, the image is imported every time. And therefor 
   can be duplicated. But for the importer there is no way of knowing if it is a
   new image or an adjusted one.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-images-8/#post-5307938)
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