P: Keyboard shortcut for All Photographs

My catalog is chronological - year, month, day, so I am typically in a folder that is 3 layers deep and long enough so that the Catalog section of scrolling box on left hand of screen disappears.  Often I will want to run a search on a search on the entire catalog and that means mousing over scrolling up and clicking.

Is there either a simple keyboard shortcut to select all the images in the catalog or to lock the catalog section so it doesn't scroll off screen?

Since Lightroom was first launched I have been frustrated that there is no keyboard stroke/shortcut for 'Show All Photographs'. If one has a lot of folders or collections it is often necessary to scroll or close panels in order to click on the 'All Photographs' command in the Catalog panel. Even in solo mode an extra click is still required to open the Catalog panel and locate the Show All Photographs control. Alternatively there is a good pop up navigation control on top of the filmstrip but this disappears if the filmstrip is closed which it often is in order to maximise thumbnail space when browsing through records.  The keystroke 'Command B’ takes you to your target collection and so logically I'm always wanting to use something like ‘Command A’ to take me straight to All Photographs. 
A simple request which would surely be quite simple to implement!

I agree with John: if you have any unsatisfied needs photo-source-wise, AnySource would probably satisfy.

Also, a short script could be used to select the all-photographs collection:

local lrApp = import( 'LrApplication' )
local lrCat = lrApp.activeCatalog()
lrCat:setActiveSources{ lrCat.kAllPhotos }

that's it.

If you put that in a file and install it as a script (see instructions here):

http://www.robcole.com/Rob/ProductsAn...

then you can assign a keystroke to it using AutoHotkey or equivalent on Mac.

But if you don't really need a keystroke for it, the "all photographs" collection is also a "sticky" source in your drop-down favorites menu - lower left area above the filmstrip.

R

Thanks, that help!

rgds
norman

I agree it would be good if LR had more keyboard shortcuts for working with sources.

You could use the Go Back/Go Forward buttons at the bottom left to go to the previous source and then return to where you were:

If you're bouncing back and forth between All Photographs and a collection, this should do the trick.

If you want actual keyboard shortcuts to go to All Photographs, Quick Collection, and Previous Export, you could use the Any Source plugin. The plugin offers lots of other features to make working with sources more efficient.