Turn off filters for sub-folders

Question

If filters are applied to a folder and the filter bar is hidden it is easy to forget and wonder why pics are missing. Working through all folders and sub-folders to make sure filters are off for every one is time consuming - would it be possible to have a menu item for "Filters off including all subfolders"?

Answer 1

>you might overwrite a previous (valid) backup
Umm, the catalog backups created by Lightroom are stored in uniquely numbered and dated folders, you also have the option of checking their integrity before opening the application. Even a dumb user would be hard pressed to unwittingly overwrite a backup.
>If you have it checked and you write out the data, that gives you the opportunity to recover your edits in the event of a loss of the catalog file.
If that is "sole" reason for disagreeing with me then you clearly know a heck of a lot less about Bridge / Photoshop / Camera Raw / Lightroom interoperability than I credited you with.
The default double-click behaviour with Bridge CS3 and Camera Raw 4.0 was to open TIFF/JPEGs that contained parametric data into Camera Raw. This drove a lot of folk nuts and was addressed by the inclusion of two new preference settings in Camera Raw 4.1. However, many photographers will pass out TIFF/JPEG to clients or 3rd parties for printing etc. There's no telling whether the recipients of such images have updated to 4.1 or even if they know that the new preferences in camera raw exist.
The Lightroom preference also addressed the situation where users got very ticked off with Lightroom writing development settings back into their non raw files.
I suggest you reread what I wrote in my earlier post, maybe even download a copy of CS3/ACR 4.0, run it in default mode, then let me know how long it takes before you start pulling your hair out.