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Joe Hohner
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July 2, 2018
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P: Folder Favorite Setting Cannot Be Changed

  • July 2, 2018
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After installing the latest release of Lightroom Classic 7.4 I'm unable to unmark my favorite folders.  In other words, folders that were marked as favorites before the latest release can no longer be unmarked.  I can, however, select a folder that was not a favorite before release 7.4 and mark it and also unmark it as a favorite.  I use this feature a fair amount so I'm pretty sure this issue started after the latest release but I cannot be sure.  Thoughts?  Seems like one of those pesky software bugs to me. I'm an experienced user so I do not think this is some type of user error.  The catalog is my master catalog and has about 600,000 images.  I did not have any favorites marked in my sub catalogs before the release.  They work fine but, again, the problem seems limited to the folders that were marked as favorites before the release.

[Update: All of the reports here except one can be explained by the confusing design of LR's "favorite groups".  See Robert Somrak's post and John Ellis' post. Thus, this topic is marked as an Idea, rather than Not A Problem, to capture the concept that the UI design is very confusing.

Patrick Philippot identified a bug where right-clicking an unselected folder creates two folder groups. It has been forked into this bug report.

There's another topic expressing similar confusion. I'm not going to merge the two, since that will hide all the useful replies.

- John Ellis, 3/10/20]

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    Yves-CH
    Inspiring
    February 1, 2019
    Bonjour, impossible de retirer et de supprimer un dossier principal marqué comme "Favorit", regardez la copie d'écran pour bien comprendre le problème !

    Hello, can not remove and delete a main folder marked as "Favorit", look at the screenshot to understand the problem!




    Ce problème existe depuis plusieurs versions de LR Classic ici (LR Classic 8.1)

    This problem has existed for several versions of LR Classic here (LR Classic 8.1)

    Yves Crausaz, Suisse, retraité actif dans le monde de la photo et des arts graphiques.
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    rtist2g
    Participating Frequently
    January 16, 2019
    I can confirm this exact problem still exists. 
    CAPC
    CAPC
    Participant
    January 16, 2019
    > We will look into this issue

    You should be already looking into it :--)) . This has been reported 7 months ago.
    CAPC
    CAPC
    Participant
    January 16, 2019
    Hi,

    If you have read my previous posts, you know that you have at least a way to reproduce the problem. I'm pretty sure that there's a connection with other UI problems as explained above. What I see seems to indicate that the UI is not managed in a consistent way as a finite state machine. Wondering whether this is even possible when using LUA.
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    Reetesh15D5
    Participant
    January 16, 2019
    We will look into this issue. Folder Favorite and Favorite Groups may be infringing with intuition. 
    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    January 13, 2019
    I changed the status of this bug report from "Not a problem" to "No status".
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    DuanePDX
    Participating Frequently
    January 13, 2019
    Problem still present in the latest version.  Can they not test this and then fix it?
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    January 12, 2019
    This stupid bug is really messing with my workflow. Please please please Adobe, I thought the sales pitch for the 'pay monthly for our software model', is so you can continue to support us???

    Meanwhile, Capture1 is looking better and better.
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    DuanePDX
    Participating Frequently
    November 15, 2018
    It seems to me that not being able to fix this problem should be an embarrassment for Adobe.  Surely they must have somebody who knows how to test and fix software problems.
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    Samoreen
    Inspiring
    November 15, 2018
    I insist. Please unmark this issue as "not a problem". It seems that with version 8 the behavior of this feature has become even more erratic making it totally unusable.
    --Patrick
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