P: Smart collection Folder start with doesn't work anymore

Thanks for reply and the detailed explanation of the "contains all" rule. The language of the UI is English.
I just recognize that I do not really understand what "folder" in the context of smart folder rules of Lightroom means. Is it the file path, i.e. "/home/andreas/library/2017/01 Sonstige"? If this is the case then the "starts with" rule should not work at all for me. Or is it a list of folders where each folder is matched with the rule, i.e. "home", "andreas", "library", "2017", etc.?
Anyway, it is weird and annoying that it stopped working in 7.x. I recreated the published smart folders, created new ones for 2018, but nothing helped. It does not work for any system folders that start with "01 " and "1 ". "10" works again...

BTW them operating system is the latest macOS High Sierra.

In which language are you running LR?

"If I change the rule from "starts with" to "contains all" the folder shows strangely photos from all system folder "2017" that contain the word "Sonstige". "01" seems to be ignored completely?"

This is because "folder contains all x y z" means the folder path contains x and it contains y and it contains z.   So "folder contains 01 Sonstige" matches the folder path "2017 / 02 Sonstige" because the path contains "01" (in the string "2017") and it contains "Sonstige".

If you change it to "folder contains words 01 Sonstige", then it won't match "2017 / 02 Sonstige", because the word "01" doesn't match any word (blank-separated string) in the path.

The issue persists in the latest version. As you can see in the screenshot, the rule is quite simple and actually very similar to all my published smart folders. As you can see only the published smart folders with "01" have zero photos. Since upgrading to Lightroom Classic... The same happens in the other publlished folder sets (2016, ...). If I change the rule from "starts with" to "contains all" the folder shows strangely photos from all system folder "2017" that contain the word "Sonstige". "01" seems to be ignored completely???

Thanks for letting us know.
I couldn't reproduce this one.
Does the issue persist? 

Thanks,
Sunil

Issue persists in Lightroom Classic 7.3. At least some smart collections of the published services still show 0 photos. It only seems to affect smart collections that use a like "folder contains 01 misc" or "folder starts with 01 birthday". No issue with 02 and so on...

Thank you 🙂

Please update to Lightroom Classic 7.1.
This issue is fixed.

Thanks,
Sunil

I have the same problem and like Ed smart collections are a critical part of my workflow. Spending several hours changing Starts With to Contains and then having to change them back later is not the solution I am looking for.

Still no fix for this? All of my smart collections are still broken, and my workflows relies on this functionality!