Ratings and Stacks

I have read many of the past messages on stacks and the inability to apply changes/ratings to all images within a stack at the same time. Let me explain what I'm doing and why this is frustrating.
In many of my shoots I'm bracketing every shot. I take the images into LR and stack my brackets. I may end up with 100 or more stacks, each with (3) images. I now want to do a quick rating and go through the stacks giving a 1-star to those I want to process further. I do a 1-star filter and now want to go into the stacks to pick the best of the three. Can't do it because LR won't apply the rating to all the images in the stack so the filter leaves behind the hidden stacked images. What a pain. Please give me the option to apply the rating to all the images in a stack something like holding the option key when applying the rating.

There seems to be a glitch with Stacks and Smart
Albums. If I base a smart album on a set of
parameters and the photo is not the select of a stack
it does not get selected for the smart album. For
example if I make a select based on a client then
choose later to make a 5 star rating out of the stack
that is not the select it will not appear in the 5
star library smart folder until I break the stack.
So I have to go back to the original stack and break
it to allow the search to work. Does anyone know
how to fix this?
In the parameters for the smart album you need to check "Ignore Stack Groupings".
Be aware of an interesting issue you may run into later around this. If you drag a set of images out of a smart album that ignores groupings into a "normal" album that holds images, you will only see images that are also stack picks show up in the destination album. I have lobbied via feedback for Aperture to always make an image drug into an album from a smart album the "Album Pick" for that album to eliminate that exact problem.
Another odd behavior of smart albums you may find useful is that whatever level you define a smart album at is the level it always searches, no matter where you move it after. So you can make a top-level smart album doing a search across many folders and projects, and keep it neatly stored under a different top level folder where if you had tried to put the smart album to start with it would not see images.

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Thanks Carolyn.
I'll follow your link.
I'd also like to know others input. Sometimes I think I'm the only ones who is used to shortcuts, or I have to wait until forum residents quit writing (others might think I'm taken care of and not replying) so people who actually uses the Mac to work can opine.
Anyway, here's how I use the browser when working. I think it's very common, or at least enough for an "option".
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18776345?ac_cid=op123456#18776345
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I can't begin to describe how frustrating the screensaver issue has been for me (and I suspect countless others, judging by the number of threads on the topic).
I took your advice, though, just to test it. After backing up my current library.itl, I copied and pasted the old .itl file into its place. As expected the playlists, play counts, etc were instantly restored. And now the screensaver fails to work with the dreaded error 'No iTunes artwork found' which makes me think it IS an issue with the old library file. The only work around I've seen so far is to rebuild the library (which I did).
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1364

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Did you by any chance save the OTHER database file along with the XML file (the itl file)? That is the one with your data. But if you didn't...
Copying from iPod to Computer threads...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5044027&#5044027
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=893334&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=797432&#797432
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http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co mputer/
http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/02/how-to-get-music-off-your-ipod/
http://playlistmag.com/secrets/2006/12/twowaystreet20/index.php
http://playlistmag.com/help/2005/01/2waystreet/
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I don't have a new Mac yet, but before I buy one I'd like to know how to transfer my iTunes library.
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So how should I do it? backup? home sharing?
And another question: I have my iTunes library on my external hd. Could I install the whole iTunes on the external hd and then use itunes on any Mac with the hd plugged in?

paulkreuzer wrote:
so just to get it right: you mean copy the iTunes folder to new Mac INSTEAD of installing iTunes there?
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click here for information.

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Greetings all. I am having an issue with setting ratings AND labels on image files at the same time. If the script sets the label first then the rating, the label doesn't show in Bridge. If the script sets the rating first then the label, the rating doesn't show in Bridge.
Is there a workaround for this? Here is my script function for doing this. file=filename minus extension. Rating is a number for the desired rating. lab is a number for the level of Label I wish to set. Everything works great except that I can't set both Rating and Label with the script as shown. In this instance, only the Ratings will show up in Bridge after running the script. If I move the x.label=Label line under the x.rating=Rating line, then the ratings only show for those images with no label (lab=0). Any image that gets a label receives no rating.
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I am so tired of deleting the songs the program cannot find because I did an update! with over 7500 songs loaded this takes a while, I loose all my ratings and songs in my playlists. The songs don't go away I just have to add the file folder again so it can find the songs. Fine, but then I am left with over 7500 "duplicates" that were originally loaded with ratings and sorted into playlists. Anyone know about this?

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http://forums.adobe.com/message/5790289#5790289
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