Export Smart Collection

Hi,
I've exported my pictures from Lightroom 2 as Catalog and copied them
over to another computer to work. Everything is fine.
Except, my Smart Collection, which was not exported ... Is there a way to export the Smart Collection and/or the (Regular/Static) Collections. I thought right-clicking on it should give me an option to export... but could not find the option to export my collection.
Thanks
Sajid

Hi Becky,
Yes, you can export ONE smart collection at a time, ... the issue is ...
I've 30+ smart collection grouped under 5 main tree heads, and its a pain to export each of these individually, so I'm looking for a way to export all of them at once
Thanks
Sajid

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Hej
My question was misunderstood.
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WhereOnEarth wrote:
Would love Adobe to add this functionality to future versions.
Would you settle for Rob adding this functionality to present version?
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in MiscLrScripts distribution (free): http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ProductsAndServices/MiscLrScripts
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Thanks Rob, but I was really wondering if a copy of the original raw file could be added. But I'll have to try this to see if I like it. Thanks again!
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This is a user to user to Forum and while these are very good suggestions you might also want to try and post it on the Photoshop family forum which is recommended for feature Requests:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/
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I´m having some trouble figuring out this one:
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Pasted from thread http://forums.adobe.com/message/5325344:
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Have all of your Folders been properly Indexed in Bridge?
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I had and have a Smart collection which helps me in my workflow to find all images that have not been touched, so have no adjustments.
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Ok, this is correct and yet I miss my ability to select images which I have not adjusted.
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Saving Smart Collections

Hello all,
I've recently upgraded from CS4 to CS6, when I uninstalled my cs4 package I realsed I'd just lost all my smart collections in Bridge. However a colleuge of mine has these same smart collections set up in his Bridge CS6, so I was wondering if theres any way of exporting or saving the samrt collections so I can import them to my bridge? Or any saved preference cache that I can copy?
It'll take a couple of hours to set up all the collections so any advice would be appreciated.
Cheers.

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I'm using CS6 Extended (64 bit) running on Win 7 64-bit, both with all applicable updates. The only thing which I know changed is that Microsoft released a few Windows updates.

Curt: Thanks very much for your reply. I hadn’t tried that exact route, but I had tried Edit > Preferences > Cache > Purge cache. No success.
Omke: Yes, they sure were present (and are still).
The winning reply – from NAPP’s Peter Bauer via its 1-on-1 help desk for members (you too can join, and membership rocks!) – was the following procedure. It worked like a charm.
Gentlemen, my sincere thanks for your considered replies. I really appreciate them.
- doug
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--Open Bridge.
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--Quit Bridge.
--Position your fingers over the Control-Alt-Shift keys.
--Launch Bridge from the Start menu.
--Immediately after launching Bridge (not before) press and hold down the three keys.
--When the small dialog box appears, release the keys and elect to replace the Preferences and purge the Cache.

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Is there a work around to include various states of the edit history in the smart collection. Say for example, I want to create a smart collection to contain all of my exported to Hard Drive images.
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That plug-in creates a custom field and populates it. There's no way to query the History steps through Lightroom's UI or through a plug-in. One lives in hope.

Smart Collection default templates

In my Lightroom presets folder I see a folder named Smart Collection Templates
http://www.pbase.com/hdproman/image/101633642
These five templates do not show up in Lightroom
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http://www.pbase.com/hdproman/image/101726162
A search of my hard drive reveals my custom presets such as develop, export, slideshow, etc: except the smart collection presets created by me.
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http://www.pbase.com/hdproman/image/101749582
Its interesting that touch time is not on my list of criteria.
http://www.pbase.com/hdproman/image/101749851
Maybe the whole problem here is I am using a PC and maybe these default smart collections are for Mac only.
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http://www.pbase.com/hdproman/image/101749852
This is a question that I have not found any answers; luckily it is not really all that important. I just like to solve computer mysteries.
What do you know that I am missing?

John, creating a new catalogue shows the five default smart collections. I should mention my working catalogue was converted from Lightroom version 1. This must be why I never saw the default smart collections as Lightroom version 1 did not have smart collections.
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