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Inspiring
February 18, 2022
Question

Filtering by treatment to show B&W images finds only some B&W

  • February 18, 2022
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I have many B&W images, all as virtual copies and have found the both filtering by treatment and as a smart collection on this same setting only finds some of my B&Ws.  I've checked several of those missing in the filtered group, and are all set in Develop to Black and White, profile Adobe Monochrome.

For one of the missing B&W virtual copies, I made a new virtual copy, and this was missing too in the filtering.  So I took it into Develop made one change - Treatment to Color then back to B&W.  This new image was now 'found' in the filtered group. Any ideas on how I can fix this nasty issue please?

Using Lightroom Classic v11.2 under Windows 10.

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john beardsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 18, 2022

Try deleting the Helper.lrdata file in the LR catalogue's folder. LR will rebuild this next time.

p.ewing16Author
Inspiring
February 19, 2022

Thanks for your suggestion John.  However doing that has not cured the problem.

john beardsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 19, 2022

What about doing a File > Optimize Catalog?