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davidk53402045
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January 17, 2019
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Catalog not showing all images in the Catalog

  • January 17, 2019
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I think I'm going mad!

There are about 140,000 images in my catalog. I use the purple colour label for one type of image, and the green for another, and the yellow for another. Last night I was doing some editing and I was labelling a number of photos, maybe 200 or so. No problems.

This morning, the thumbnail screen only shows me 101,000 of my images. I absolutely promise you that there are NO filters set. I wanted to find all my yellow labelled images - filtered then no problem. I wanted to find my purple or green labelled ones and they did not come up on the thumbnail screen! I don't have much hair but it is going to be pulled out!!!!

I then created a smart collection of all my purple labelled images and that worked fine. Same with green. The images are there and the side panel shows the full 140,000 images are there, but on the thumbnail screen in Library module there are nearly 40,000 missing (and they won't all be labelled with a colour). They are not missing from the catalog just the Library module thumbnail screen. I repeat there are NO filters set!!!!

The photos are on my disk, which is connected.

I can still do my editing but I am very frustrated. Anyone got any ideas how I can resolve this?

David (TIA)

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Correct answer johnrellis

Filtering photos in stacks trips up a lot of people; see this feature request: Lightroom: Filter images in a collapsed stack | Photoshop Family Customer Community .

- Smart collections will show every matching photo regardless of whether it's in a collapsed stack.

- The general rule with filters is that they "filter" the photos that were visible prior to applying the photo. So a filter won't show photos that are buried in collapsed stacks (not on top).  To use a filter to search photos in stacks, first do the command Photo > Stacking > Expand All Stacks (or right-click a photo and do Stacking > Expand All Stacks).

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GoldingD
GoldingD
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January 17, 2019

It is fine to stack as you see fit. Simply expand the stack(s) when needed.

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davidk53402045Author
Participating Frequently
January 17, 2019

I have solved this issue, but am frustrated as well.

Late last night I had applied auto-stack to stack together all images taken at the same time (00:00 setting). What I did not know is that this would then hide photos of different colour labels from a filter in the Library module. I find that counter-intuitive because I would have thought that I would be able to find all images with a label even if in a stack with differently labelled images.

My yellow label is for images which are components of an HDR, purple is the HDR, and green is a mono/black and white version. As HDR conversions and mono conversions are including in an auto-stack at 00:00 with the originals then they get hidden behind the yellow labelled images rather than separately identifiable.

So that's the end of auto-stacking for me!

Thanks,

David

johnrellis
johnrellisCorrect answer
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January 17, 2019

Filtering photos in stacks trips up a lot of people; see this feature request: Lightroom: Filter images in a collapsed stack | Photoshop Family Customer Community .

- Smart collections will show every matching photo regardless of whether it's in a collapsed stack.

- The general rule with filters is that they "filter" the photos that were visible prior to applying the photo. So a filter won't show photos that are buried in collapsed stacks (not on top).  To use a filter to search photos in stacks, first do the command Photo > Stacking > Expand All Stacks (or right-click a photo and do Stacking > Expand All Stacks).

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