P: Indicate and search which photos have been exported

LR 13.3 finally implemented the Exported Files filter criterion and the Exported smart-collection criterion.

@Rikk Flohr: Photography, @Rick Spaulding -, please mark this Idea as implemented.

It's great that we have plugin authors providing functionality missing in Lightroom Classic. John Ellis's excellent plugins are described in this thread. I've been using Jeffrey Friedl's Snapshot on Export plugin for years to help with this issue. In addition to creating a snapshot as I export, I also have it set the color label on the image in LrC to Purple (no keyboard shortcut for that label so I don't use it for anything else) and add a keyword "Exported". Images I've exported are always easy to find. I incorporate Snapshot on Export into my export presets. The plugin doesn't let me add the images exported to a collection directly, but a Smart Collection could be made to include images with the "exported" keyword.

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Add the Run Any Command as a post-process action to your export, as described in the plugin's directions:

http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/run-any-command

Leave everything blank, and at the bottom of Run Any Command panel, enter the name of the collection:

I have been trying to figure out the proper command to do this, for ages now. How do I make Run Any Command add exported photos to a collection? I simply can't figure it out 

Ich fände es äußerst hilfreich, wenn es in Lightroom eine Möglichkeit bei der Suche, bzw. beim Bibliotheksfilter gäbe, sich nur die Fotos anzeigen zu lassen, die man exportiert hat - und das am besten noch mit der weiteren Möglichkeit, das mit einem Datum einzugrenzen.

Leider habe ich so eine Möglichkeit noch nicht gefunden, lediglich die "bearbeiteten" Fotos kann man sich anzeigen lassen, das hilft mir aber nicht weiter.

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I just released a new version of the Any Filter plugin that lets you search Develop History steps, e.g. search for all photos that haven't been exported:

I organize exported photos by attributes of the subject (which are wildlife). I export into folders based on the animal type (bird, mammal, etc.) and species. But sometimes I go back to the catalog and review photos and want to remove an old export and re-categorize it. But I cannot remember how or where I originally exported it, and  LRC History does not contain the filename or folder,  so I cannot find it to remove it. This is LRC, so all exports are local to my computer.

I totally agree! This needs to be a feature. I have hundreds of photos to edit and I can't do them all at once. Leaving me to export and then come back and edit/export again.

If Adobe would break down and add a way for LR Classic smart collections to include/exclude photos based on if their develop history included the previously exported text flag would make it much more useful. Or provide a way for smart collections to search for literal strings in develop module histories.  I could quickly determine if I needed to back up files to a separate drive before splitting them off from my main catalog and suchlike much more easily/rapidly with that feature.