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billh662526
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December 13, 2023
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Lightroom Classic Release 13.0.2 Virtual Copies in Collection Set

  • December 13, 2023
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Possible bug. LrC Release 13.0.2.

I am working on a photograph in a Collection Set. Running Windows 10 Pro.  Up to date with releases. 

 

First, the Stack tool appears to be missing under Photo. I cannot see it on the main horizontal menu bar, nor in the context (right click) menu when I select a photo either in the Library grid or thumbnail view, nor in the Development window, when I am working with the photo in a Collection Set.  I see it in the Collection and in the Folder in the Library. 

 

Second, when I create a virtual copy, it does not appear as a thumbnail in the Collection Set.  I am not stacking photographs. In fact, I do not see the Stack command, nor does the photograph indicate it is stacked in the upper left.  When I go to Photoshop to edit the photo, I know that the virtual copy is created because the file name shows it is a virtual copy, and if I create another virtual copy and edit in Photoshop it shows a "-2" in the file name indicating it is the second of two virtual copies.

 

I just tested this. I found that the only way for me to see a newly created virtual copy using LrC 13.0.2 is to go to it's Library Folder.  Virtual copies I created before LrC 13.0.2 appear in the Collection Set and in other Collections. They have the "dogear" in the lower left. 

 

It appears to be a bug.  Why do I see some virtual copies in a Collection Set, which I created using earlier releases of LrC (before 13.0.2), but not newly created virtual copies?  

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    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    December 13, 2023

    I think all of these things are expected behavior for LrC, not a bug. I'm pretty sure that stacking only works in collections and folders (and All Photographs), and not elsewhere like collection sets. I also believe (but am not 100% sure) virtual copies won't show up in a collection set unless the virtual copy was included in a collection that is part of the collection set.

    Sean McCormack
    Community Expert
    Sean McCormackCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 13, 2023

    Yep Collections and Folders only and only in the one it was created in. In a Collection Set, Lightroom won't do this as it's as it's essentially a filing cabinet drawer (Set) that takes Collection (file holders) for your images. Because it's not a collection, it can't know where the stack would live. Also the image may be in more than one collection within a collection set. E.g. a Best of Collection set with Best of March, Best of 2023 collections might have the same image.  Stacks created inside a Collection will show in the Collection set. 

    Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.
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