P: When selecting a collapsed stack, provide option to apply changes to all photos in the stack

The default behavior of lightroom when a stack is collapsed is to only work on the master file when I do things like rename the file, delete the file, etc.

I believe this is done to be Safe which is ok, however, it would be great if lightroom could prompt the user or all a user to configure it to apply things to the entire stack even if it's collapsed.

OK, good point. So this could be an option, to suit everybody's needs. I, for example do NOT keyword first. Right after the shoot I wan't to see results and do the bookkeeping work later. You also state, that often you don't want to keyword your brackets, but obviously sometimes you do want it. This clearly is a sign, that a feature is missing and that's why I suggested it here. There is always a way around a specific need. But in your first answer it alredy became clear, that this involves additional steps. So whenever a request can only fulfilled with extra work, this is a sign, that the workflow could be improved. I'm aware, that this is not a major issue, that's why it's not implemented (yet). I use Lightroom since the first version and over the years I could tick off many items from my wishlist. This is one of the few still remaining. Should I forget about it? Not mention it? I don't think so. It was time to talk about the less obvious feature request, because all in all Lightroom has become very mature and feature rich. Please consider to cut some corners, that's all I'm asking for.

"This was already suggested in forums back in 2008 and it's hard to believe, that this is not a common request, even if it's not high priority."

Apparently most people do not see this as a major issue. For example: I usually keyword my photos before I start creating stacks. And I often do not want the brackets to contain the keywords of the HDR, because I do not want to find HDR brackets if I search by a certain keyword. I only want to find 'finished photos', i.e. the HDR photo.

Thanks for your answer. I'm aware of that, but this is an additional step, that sometimes is forgotten and should not be required at all. I also have stacks that I want to be expanded (e.g. different views) and others that I don't (e.g. bracketed shots). And if you want to apply keywords to hundreds of images, the default behaviour should be something that is the most expected. And at least for me, that is applying keywords to ALL photos, not only the ones that are on top of the stack.

If you move a bunch of photos all the stacked ones come with it. For me, that's prove, that photos in a folded stack should be treatet like the one on top of the stack, not only when moving, but also when keywording.

This was already suggested in forums back in 2008 and it's hard to believe, that this is not a common request, even if it's not high priority.

It's already very easy to do this and do it quickly. Shift-click on the small number in the left corner of the stack. That will expand the stack and select all its members. Enter your keywords and they will be applied to all the images.

I'm pretty sure, this has been suggested before, so this is to support former requests: when adding keywords to images, these are not applied to photos that are stacked. However, in most cases, stacked photos need the same keywords that are applied to the top-in-stack photo.