Title: duplicates
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# duplicates

 *  Resolved [hotconductor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hotconductor/)
 * (@hotconductor)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicates-13/)
 * I recently ran it on a new site. Apparently it had already run once, so instead
   of looking at the images and saying ‘ok, I did those, will leave them alone’ 
   it created new versions of all the various versions. So now I have 3 of the exact
   same file for every variation of EWWW. Example…
 * DJI_0099-300×225
    DJI_0099-300×225-300×225 DJI_0099-300×225-300×225-300×225
 * Do you have a recommended batch process to remove all the duplicates?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [nosilver4u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * (@nosilver4u)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicates-13/#post-6634886)
 * No I don’t, and I don’t think EWWW created them in the first place.
 *  Thread Starter [hotconductor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hotconductor/)
 * (@hotconductor)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicates-13/#post-6635067)
 * Gotcha. This would be a first. I am thinking it is a db issue, or another plugin.
   The site I am referring to was a very messy install. If you have the ability 
   to delete my post feel free to do so. I am going to run EWWW and see what happens
   when attempting to optimize everything again.
 * Thank you for the quick response.
 *  Plugin Author [nosilver4u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * (@nosilver4u)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicates-13/#post-6635087)
 * Yeah, keep an eye on the bulk optimize and see what images it processes. I would
   think those are probably accidental generations from another plugin, and will
   probably not all be optimized. EWWW can only do the sizes registered in the metadata
   database table unless you’re using Scan & Optimize, then it just grabs the whole
   folder.

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 * Last reply from: [nosilver4u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nosilver4u/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicates-13/#post-6635087)
 * Status: resolved