Collections in Lr5

Is it possible to change a Collection in to a Collection Set in Lr5?

Interesting.
I still think of my folders as the primary defining element of my organization - I use keywords and/or other metadata to find photos when I don't know which folder they're in or if I want to round up a cross-section from multiple folders.
Usually when I find a photo via whatever means, the next thing I do is go to the folder the photo is in.
I mean, I have one folder per date or per shoot (if more than one shoot on a day).
So, I am normally interested in all photos on that day or during that shoot.
Obviously it depends - I may be interested in all pictures of a particular person (and I have a keyword for each persons name), place (I use location metadata), or thing (I have keywords for all interesting "things") etc. but I never thought of my photos as being organized by person's name, by place, or by objects in them. I think of them as being organized by date/shoot, with keywords/captions/other-metadata to help find...
Do you also have keywords for a shoot, or for a day, or do you regularly find by date metadata too?
Don't get me wrong - I'm not challenging you - simply trying to understand. I've understood almost everything you've ever said about organization, except how you work, how you think, what you do when you sit down in front of Lightroom... - still somewhatofa mystery. Me? I edit a folder at a time, almost always - when done, I lock it, and publish some of them (entirely based on smart publish collections - one smart collection per publish service - no more no less). Later I revisit that folder, or find photos via a variety of search means for a variety of purposes. I don't use custom ordering. I do use regular collections sometimes, but mostly for rounding up photos to inspect or edit - definitely NOT for primary photo organization. I reguarly forget that one can use regular collection hierarchy in conjunction with hard drive publishing service for structured exports, although I understand many people do that (do you?). My published trees mirror my source hierarchy. I also understand that people have no good way of assuring export order based on custom order, which is one reason I don't use it. My filenaming scheme assures capture date and alphabetic ordering are the same. Sometimes when I want to impose a particular ordering, I fudge the capture time, then rename photos.
Sorry if I'm straying off topic, but I'm not Adobe support, and this is a user discussion forum! (and I am a user ).
PS - More than one way to do things, and we clearly have developed somewhat different ways, just curious to learn more about your way.
For the record, I also have OTHER software that I use in conjunction with and outside Lightroom (started before digital cameras were invented, and before I used metadata for anything), which DEPEND on folder organization (and filenames) as primary elements of organization. That's why I always chime in when you suggest folders are just "don't care buckets" and filenames don't matter - maybe that's true and maybe it isn't...
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