P: "Capture Date is in the last n hours" doesn't work

Got it. I can use that in Any Filter to speed up "in the last n hours". Thanks.

I leave value_units = "days" and set value = .0417 to represent one hour - works for me (edit-time).

"Hours" is removed from the smart-collection user interface. But I tried editing an exported .lrsmcol file to contain:

 value = {


  {


   criteria = "captureTime",


   operation = "inLast",


   value = 1.0,


   value2 = 1.0,


   value_units = "hours",


  },


  combine = "intersect",


 },

and then re-importing it, but it didn't seem to work on either Windows or Mac.

I know edit-date works to nearest hour (or minute) just by editing smart collection rule and changing integer value to floating point (decimal).

Does that not work for capture date as well?

Ben,

I can't remember the details of what I was trying to do when I tripped over that. The suggested workaround would probably be adequate for what I do.

Perhaps in a tethered workflow, the photographer would want to have a smart collection showing the last 2 hours, to isolate exactly the photos in the most recent tethered session?

Thanks.

Hi John, you still out there? An engineer has looked at this bug and has made the following comment:

"I advocate removing this criteria altogether. In my opinion, this feature is useless unless we retrofit search code to consistently autoupdate. Not sure if that's worth the effort since sort by date descending is a work around."

I'm inclined to agree, but I wanted to see what you thought. Is there a specific workflow you have in mind that wouldn't be satisfied by a workaround such as a "last day" smart collection, sorted by capture time descending?

Thanks,
Ben

This doesn't appear to be fixed in LR 4 beta.

Thanks Ben, I appreciate your answer very much. Keep up the good work! 🙂

In the case of this particular bug, I was actually mistaken, as I realized shortly after writing my previous post. The behavior is the same on Mac and Win. Certainly there are sometimes bugs that occur just on one platform and not on the other, but not being an engineer, I'm not in a good position to speak to the extent of code sharing, or the pros and cons of Lua. :-)

-Ben