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Looty81
Looty81
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September 26, 2018
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Ability To Hide Photos

  • September 26, 2018
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Does anyone happen to know if there is a functionality available that provides the ability to be able to "hide" a given selection of photos within Lightroom Classic CC? I get that they could be removed from the library but files can still remain on the hard drive, but I'm wondering if there's some way to actually hide them but still keep them accessible in the Lightroom Classic CC application.

Thanks in advance.

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    Correct answer Akash Sharma

    Hi Looty81,.

    Lightroom Classic does not have such feature to hide images within the catalog.

    Could you please take a look at this discussion Lightroom: Ability to hide sensitive photos | Photoshop Family Customer Community  and let us know if that helps?

    Thanks,

    Akash

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    ErlingDag
    Participant
    August 23, 2020

    This is in fact a real problem, and a big surprise that Adobe hasn't solved it long ago. Only soltion so far is to store the edited files elsewhere, and delete them in LR. Strange and cumbersome.........

     

     

      ManiacJoe
      ManiacJoe
      Inspiring
      August 23, 2020

      See my previous comment.

       

      ManiacJoe
      ManiacJoe
      Inspiring
      September 27, 2018

      Hiding the files would be an interesting solution.

      What is the problem you are trying to solve?

      Restricting access to the folder that contains the images is easily done in the file browser that came with your OS.

      Akash Sharma
      Akash SharmaCorrect answer
      Legend
      September 26, 2018

      Hi Looty81,.

      Lightroom Classic does not have such feature to hide images within the catalog.

      Could you please take a look at this discussion Lightroom: Ability to hide sensitive photos | Photoshop Family Customer Community  and let us know if that helps?

      Thanks,

      Akash

      Looty81
      Looty81Author
      Known Participant
      September 26, 2018

      Thanks Akash. I checked out the link. It seems like a request that's in popular demand, and for good reason.

      John Waller
      Community Expert
      John WallerCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      September 26, 2018

      Unfortunately, despite the 6+ year demand, no such feature has appeared in Lightroom yet. All we have are workarounds.

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