Smart Collections missing

I installed the new version LR2. Previously I uninstall LR2 beta. In the beta version it had five Smart Collections, but there are no Smart Collections in LR2 final release.
How can I restore the Smart Collections to show up?
Thank you.

Did you upgrade an LR2 Beat Catalog with LR2? The smart collections should have come along with the catalog. If you started a new Catalog you will have to create new smart collections, AFAIK.
Don
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Missing Smart Collection Filter?

I've tried:
- Opening other smart collections
- Opening other events and other smart collections
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- Restarting the application
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Have you tried trashing your preferences?
Unexplained faults like this can often be fixed by clearing out FCP X's preferences (for some reason, they get knotted up from time to time).
Download Digital Rebellion's Preference Manager (free, simple to use, and perfectly safe, both to download and use).
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
With Preference Manager, you can backup the Prefs when FCP X (or any of the Apple Professional Applications) are working normally. Then when either of the applications are acting strangely, Trash the Preferences, then Restore from your backups (just a mouse-click).
If you trash the prefs and don't restore them, you will need to manually restore all your FCP X settings again, so it's a great idea to backup Preferences from time to time when FCP X is working well, then your backups are up to date.
Doesn't fix every problem, but it fixes a lot.
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Question regarding stacks, searches and smart collections

Apologies if this is considered a 'basic' question - but I hope that someone can help me.
I'm currently in the process of upgrading/migrating a reasonably large Photoshop Elements 6 catalog where I've made extensive use of hierarchical folder structures, keywords and star ratings to quickly locate photos using a range a different techniques.I've successfully upgrade/migrated the Photoshope Elements catalog into Lightroom 3 and as part of the verification that everything has come across OK - I've done some comparisons of catalog searches in Elements and Lightroom and seem to be getting some strange results which I'm not sure if this is simply how things work or if I'm doing something wrong. I think part of the issue is caused by the fact that Elements always does destructive edits - so I never edited original photos in Elements so made extensive use of copied photos and stacks - but this didn't seem to cause any issues as Elements seem to keep things straight.
In Elements, the result of a query or Smart Collection might return 18 stacks of photos (with most of the stacks containing multiple photos) - but for most purposes Elements simply treated this as 18 seperate photos and simply ignored all of the photos under the top of the stacks.
Now in Lightroom I get different results depending on how the photos are identified. If I use either a keyword or rating search using the 'Right Hand' panel - I get a photo count returned which is always much higher than 18 but Lightroom seems to retain the stacks so only displays 18 different stacks, However, if I put the same search criteria into a Lightroom Smart Collection - it retrives and displays ALL of the photos in the 18 stacks (so it displays 2-3 times more photos) and I can't seem to find a way to get the Smart Collection to honour these stacks. I know that I could probably alter each of my photo stacks and change the rating or keyword of all of the photos under the top of the stack - but trust me this is a huge amount of work!!
Is this simply the way Lightroom works? I can partially understand and accept the way direct keyword or rating searches work using the 'Right Hand' panel - although the photo counts are different from what I've got used to in Elements the way the photos are actually displayed is not that different. However, what really confuses me is the completely different way Smart Collections work when compared to the 'equivalent' direct query. Have I missed something? Or is this some form of technical issue/bug/future enhancement request?
Also, on a slightly related issue - I've noticed that keywords with spaces (or other special characters) seem to cause issues for Lightroom - while Elements seems to cope with these OK. From the reading I've done it looks like one of the most common suggestions is to simply remove the spaces (..etc.) in the keywords - is that what most people would recommend??
Any help, advice or other suggestions would be appreciated.
Kind Regards .... Jerry

I'm currently in the process of upgrading/migrating a reasonably large Photoshop Elements 6 catalog where I've made extensive use of hierarchical folder structures, keywords and star ratings to quickly locate photos using a range a different techniques
Please tell us EXACTLY the steps you are using to move your PSE catalog to Lightroom.
However, if I put the same search criteria into a Lightroom Smart Collection - it retrives and displays ALL of the photos in the 18 stacks (so it displays 2-3 times more photos) and I can't seem to find a way to get the Smart Collection to honour these stacks. I know that I could probably alter each of my photo stacks and change the rating or keyword of all of the photos under the top of the stack - but trust me this is a huge amount of work!!
I believe this is how Lightroom was designed to work. Smart collections don't recognize that some photos are at the bottom of the stack.
Also, on a slightly related issue - I've noticed that keywords with spaces (or other special characters) seem to cause issues for Lightroom - while Elements seems to cope with these OK. From the reading I've done it looks like one of the most common suggestions is to simply remove the spaces (..etc.) in the keywords - is that what most people would recommend??
I have no trouble whatsoever using keywords that have spaces in them. I have keywords that are "New York", "New Jersey", "Union Pacific Railroad", etc. Special characters, such as a comma, will probably cause trouble. Exactly what are you doing where spaces in keywords are not working properly?

Smart Collection on a single keyword in Lightroom4

Hi
I´m having some trouble figuring out this one:
I have twins, a boy and a girl. I take a lot of photos of them. I want to make a smart collection for each of the kids separately as well as of photos of them together. There are also lots of photos of them with grandparents and aunts and uncles. I keyword all my photos with who is in them. Is there a simple way to make a Smart Collection for ONLY one keyword. Say one collection for BOY and one for GIRL, i know i can specify all the nots and so on but i would like to say; make smart collection on photos that ONLY have this one particular keyword. Is this possible?
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Frode

Robs suggested solution is simple and effective of course, but if I’ve understood correctly could something like this work…
have a keyword “FriendsAndRelatives” (non-export) which “contains” the Keyword names of all your friends and relatives and your Boy and Girl Keywords sitting outside this say under a Keyword “Twins”.
ie
FriendsAndRelatives (non-exported)
Relative1
Relative2
etc
Friend1
Friend2
etc
Twins (non-exported)
BoysName
GirlsName
I think you can then do interesting Smart collections such as …
Keywords Contains BoysName
AND NOT Keywords Contains GirlsName
AND NOT Keywords Contains FriendsANDRelatives.
Or…
Keywords Contains BoysName
AND Keywords Contains GirlsName
AND NOT Keywords Contains FriendsANDRelatives.
Etc etc
I may have missed the point though, if so … sorry!
Alan.
PS - As an interesting example, I have an Animals Heirarchical Keyword tree which contains a tree of classifications 5 levels deep.
I can create a smart collection which shows all my non-bird wildlife as ...
Contains "Animal" AND Does not contain "Bird" and Does not Contain "Domesticated".

Bridge CS5 won't let me create Smart Collection

Hi all -
I am working with CS5 on a PC (Windows 7 Professional/64-bit) and Bridge will not allow me to create a Smart Collection. We want to use Bridge to sort graphics based on the type of graphic they are. We added keywords to the files and can use the filter to sort, but it would be nice if anytime a "timeline" keyworded graphic was added to the folder that it was added to that collection.
I go to the Collections panel, and click on the "Smart Collections" button, fill in my criteria, but when I hit Save nothing happens. All I can do is cancel out of the window. I have tried it on a couple different computers in my office and they all have the same issue. Same thing occurs if I do a search and try to hit the Smart Collection button there, nothing happens. It rolls over, but no action occurs when I click on it. Am I missing something here?

Have all of your Folders been properly Indexed in Bridge?
Select the Parent Folder which holds image files on each of your HDs;
Go to Tools / Cache / Build and Export Cache . . . Export Cache to Folders; and check the box to Export Cache to Folders.
This operation may take quite a long time (you might choose to leave it running over-night) but once done, I think that you will find that making Smart Collections from Keywords works really quickly -- even when files are scattered in multiple folders over many different HDs.

Update to process version 2010 & smart collection "has adjustments"

Buying the new Lightroom 3 version ofcourse I wanted to profit of the new process version. So I selected all images I had "not adjusted" before and selected Update to Process version 2010. This works great.
However I now have one problem.
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.
This Smart collection has become worthless because of the update to process version 2010 all images have been adjusted.
Ok, this is correct and yet I miss my ability to select images which I have not adjusted.
Once I have set the default process version to 2010 all new images are correctly shown.
Question: how can I select all those images which have only the process version updated, but have no further adjustments?

Changing the process to version 2010 is considered as an adjustment; it will appear in the photo's history in the same way as any other development adjustment. The smart filter condition "Has Adjustments" only has a true or false setting so you can't distinguish the process version adjustment from any other. Instead of using this method to spot the photos I need to work on, I find that I have more control over my workflow by using keywords such as "review", "develop", "print"; you can make these keywords not exportable so that they are not part of the keyword list in exported photos.
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If you have a backup of your catalog that precedes the step where you updated the process version of all photos, open this backup, add a keyword of your choice to all the photos that have not been touched, then apply the process version change. You can then change your smart catalog to use this keyword as opposed to the "Has Adjustment" condition and remove the keyword you have set on photos that have not been touched as soon as you are done editing them. IMPORTANT: Any changes you have made following the date and time of the backup will be lost.
If you don't have a backup to go to, you will have to manually identify which photos, which from your point of view, have not been touched.
Some ideas:
If you did not make other edits following the change of the process version, and have not made other edits on that date, you could built a smart collection based on the 'Edit Date" and then reset the develop settings of all the photos in that collection.
Another possible condition is a "Capture Date" range where you know photos haven't been touched yet.
There may be other options, there may be a plugin that can help you, or ultimately there would be means to access the database outside of Lightroom - contact me if you get that desperate to fix this!
http://www.BDLImagery.com

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
I have created a Smart Collection Set and all the Smart Collections to show photos taken during a particular year and the Recently Modified by Floyd smart collection.
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.
If I open one of the default presets such as the Recently Modified template in a text editor such as Word Pad this is what is inside.
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.
My smart collection Recently Modified by Floyd looks like this.
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.
When I right click the import dialog takes me to the Smart Collection Templates folder and I see the five default smart collections. Each template has the extension .lrtemplate and the File of type: shows Supported Files [*.lrsmcol] as the import file type. If I import any of these files I get an error. If I export any smart collections created by me it gets this *.lrsmcol extension and I am able to import this template into any Lightroom catalogue.
I now understand how to create my own smart collections and having the defaults does not matter. My original question was how to create the Recently Modifiedsmart collection which the NAPP help desk answered for me.
Anyway this topic is taking too much of my time and further research is wasted effort.
Thanks for your reply

Smart collection of image files linked to InDesign documents?

I would like to create a Smart Collection that finds all of the image files linked to InDesign documents in a specific folder.
I am the yearbook advisor at school and I need to easily find all of the images that have been placed so that we don't reuse images by mistake.
I have no scripting experience, so I can't create something myself, and I haven't been able to find anything that does such a thing.
Many yearbook design software programs do offer something like this - indicating that an image has been used previously.
I guess it would need to look at the metadata of the InDesign Files for the Linked Files and then pit all of the files found there into a Smart Collection. Ideally, I would be able to further limit it by file type. ANd to not include Master pages if so desired (although that would just be a bonus!)
I greatly appreciate any assistance anyone can give.
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I'd be glad to give it a shot, even though I'm a beginner (and I am afraid I am out of my depth), but i'm missing something obvious because I could download and install the script, but if I try to open it to edit it, I just get gobbeldygook. Any chance you could paste the script here?
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Smart-Collection (metadata status) not updated immediately

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I created a smart-collection that matches photos where their metadata status has changed on file system. So I changed the date with ExifToolGui (*click*). Closed the ExifTool and waited in LR 5.6 to see the smart-collection populated. But nothing happens. Photos only were added to this collection if I navigated to them in the library. Only the visible ones were added, so if I scrolled down, more photos were added. That's not really useful. And now, not even with navigating to them will put them in to that collection.
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Try this:
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When I had somewhat related issue with slow update of metadata status, that command seemed to sometimes speed it up.

Smart Collection - can source be named Collection Set?

If I specify a smart collection rule that says the source must be a collection matching some pattern, does this only apply to actual collections and exclude collection sets?
I was hoping fo a way to build a rule based on the collection set ... is this possible?
I also tried matching Any Searchable Text set to the collection set name, but that doesn't seem to work...wouldn't all photos in the collection set be associated with that string? Looks like no.
-Colin
PS: There used to be a way I thought that you could submit a new thread after doing a question search. That seems to be gone. Or did I miss something?

CPChisholm wrote:
If I specify a smart collection rule that says the source must be a collection matching some pattern, does this only apply to actual collections and exclude collection sets?
If I remember correctly, yes.
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Smart Collections: an ommission!?

Hi,
How do I create a smart collection that is based on another Collection, i.e. tests if an image exists or does not exist in a specified collection?
When designed my workflow for Lightroom I realised that the Workflow is simply a series of concecutive sets. (I use the term 'set' in the mathematical sense.) The various stages in the workflow directly corresponding to sets. Each stage has an associated set, that is a subset of the previous stage's set. Assuming the workflow stages are imported, selected, edited, approved and published. Then the selected collection is a subset of imported, and rejected is the imported set with selected removed. The edited set is the a subset of the selected set. And so on. Published provides a slight complication in that it is not one set, but multiple sets, split into a number of sets based on the published destination of the image.
When I came to try and set this up in Lightroom I found a difficulty, Lightroom does not appear to allow you to create a smart set condition that tests if an image is in or is not in another collection. I am slightly taken aback at this ommission. It seems to me that this is a fundamental tool for using smart collections.
OR have I missed something I have only been using Lightroom seriously for a couple of weeks.
Ciao RIc Evans

In my version of Lightroom 5, Smart Collections does indeed allow you to include photos in a specific Collection or Collections. I'm not sure why you state the opposite.
By the way, I now provide a completely unsolicited opinion: I think following Kelby's advice on organizing is a mistake for most people. I think his advice is poor, and that better advice on organizing can be found at The DAM Book | The DAM Book or Organizing Your Photos with Lightroom 5 | The DAM Book. In particular, if your organizing needs are exactly the same as Kelby, who does discrete professional photo shoots and which have little overlapping content and as a result he has little need to search across photo shoots by content, and you search only for "winner shots", then maybe his advice is good. For the rest of us, who organize by the content of the photo (keywords, other metadata and collections), I think Kelby is way off target.

Keyword Based Smart Collections

I'm having some difficulty. Most of the time keywording is a great way to build smart collections. This time, however, I'm having difficulty. I had a second shooter at my last wedding. When we imported his images, they were all tagged with his name so that I could differentiate if I needed to. Trouble is, now my standard keywording technique is back-firing.
After building my smart collections for the different parts of the wedding based on keywords (e.g., smart collections for pre-ceremony, ceremony, details, reception and formals), I make one final smart collection that displays images that have no keywords. This way in case I failed to tag some images, I won't miss them. Trouble is, all of the second shooter's images do have keywords. They're tagged with his name.
So, what I need to do is build a smart collection that looks something like this:
Show me images only:
IF the image has NO keyword
OR
IF the image is ONLY tagged with THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S NAME
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Set your smart collection to be
Keywords Is Empty
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Smart collections - different from 3.4 and 5.3?

Hello,
This is really simple, I used to be able to select a folder (say, all images in 2013) and then control click a smart collection I had created (rated > 1 star) and that would filter my images from 2013 and only display the ones that were rated higher then one star.
Odly, I cannot seem to get this to work in 5.3 (win7 pc fwiw). When I do this, it shows images that aren't from 2013 (the folder I selected). Can anyone explain or enlighten me as to what is going on?
To be clear, I expect to see images from 2013 that are rated > 1 star. If I select a folder with a single unrated image and then control click a "> 1 star" smart collection, it shows the image still. It doesn't seem to filter, it's showing both the contents of the smart collection and my one image.
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Adobe changed the behavior in LR 4. Here's what employee Benjamin Warde said about the change:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/multi_selecting_smart_collections_an d_folders_in_library_module_has_changed_for_the_worse
In Lightroom 3, multi-selecting various folders and collections would sometimes show the union, and sometimes show the intersection. The inconsistencies in the behavior were confusing to a lot of people, and caused various problems as well. In Lightroom 4, all such multi-selects now show the union. We certainly recognize that any change (even an ostensible bug fix) can potentially be detrimental to certain workflows, and we appreciate getting this feedback. In the case of the particular use cases described in this thread, it should be fairly easy to do what you want to do using Filters.
That thread has a lot discussion about which behavior was preferrable.   Here's how LR 4 and later behave:
- Selecting multiple sources (folders, collections, smart collections, publish collections) in the left-hand panel unions them (combines them).
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- In the Library Filter Bar, in general, different criteria intersect with each other.
- An exception to the previous rule: Selecting multiple items in a column in the Metadata browser unions them, while multiple columns intersect. E.g. selecting two keywords from the same Keyword column filters for photos that have either keyword assigned; adding a Camera column and selecting a particular camera filters for photos taken with that camera and have either keyword assigned.
For many common use cases, including yours, using the Library Filter Bar instead of smart collections can solve your issue.   E.g. select the desired folder and in the Library Filter Bar, add a Label column in the Metadata browser and select the label Blue. Save those filter settings as a preset to make it more convenient to recall them.
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Smart Collections and Exporting

I've searched for an answer and couldn't find one so here is my question.
Is there a way to have an image automatically go in to a smart collection when exporting to a specific folder? I have a folder on my desktop that I export every image I want to upload to flickr. I'd like very much for these to also be added to a smart collection. For the life of me, I can't seem to figure out how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

leighton w wrote:
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!
Right now I'm using the target collection option, but I have to try and remember to hit the b-key when I export.
Oh - I misunderstood, thanks for clarifying.
In that case, it's even simpler, just assign a Flickr keyword to the raw prior to exporting and (assuming the keyword is picked up by your smart collection), the same raw will be there to export to Flickr too. - no need for a real or even virtual copy of the raw.
Or have I missed the point again .
PS - If you want to assure it's automated, so you don't forget, then you can use this feature of Exportant:
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Date picker in Smart Collection dialogue box

Unless I am missing something, there is no date picker in the Smart Collection dialogue box. This is annoying, and the opposite would be very useful.

You need to let us know the Visual Studio version and client type.
If it is the HTML client then often this can happen by by wiring up the tap events in the wrong place or similar mistakes.
If it is desktop client then you need to be checking your code, commands, event wiring and then posting back details if you cannot see the mistake.
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