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June 28, 2022
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P: External Editor Inherit Collection Membership Tickbox

  • June 28, 2022
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When sending a file to an external editor, if the option to edit a new version is selected, Lr will create a new file which inherits most but not all of the original file's metadata. One thing that it doesn't inherit is collection membership if you are not explicitly working within the collection (say for example you are in the Recent Import view). 

Images can be assigned to only one collection at import, but they can be added to multiple collections afterwards. 

I would like to see a tickbox on the Edit in External ... dialogue box that toggles the inheriting of collection membership for new files created in this way. 

My workflow is usually to import files and then to head to the Develop pane to start editing them. At this point I am in the Recent Imports view and, even though I specified a collection for the files, new copies will not inherit this information. This means that when I later select the collection, I cannot see the externally edited versions and I need to find them and add them manually - unless I remember to check each copy and add it to the target collection from the New Imports filmstrip.

I propose that when a user selects either the Edit a Copy or the Edit a copy With Lightroom Adjustments options, a tickbox appears to let the user select whether that new copy will inherit all of the collection memberships of the original.