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Davide5C99
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February 24, 2024
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Problem synchronize folder and collections

  • February 24, 2024
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Goodafternoon, I have a bug happen in last days randomly, but very annoing, when I edit some in develop with photoshop, or for example with ai denoise that create a DNG, after they do not appear in the develop strip, i see only the original CR2 file and not beside the usually psd or dng, not in develop and not in library--> catalogs, but if I go in library --> folders, they are there, so I should always moving manually them from folders to catalogs and is really annoying.

In past happed seldom, in last days all my editing photos I did recently are disappear from catalog (but they are in hard drive and in folders)

How i can fix it? 
Thank you

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Correct answer JohanElzenga
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Ok, I think i explain bad, sorry my english, I make another example, I have a raw photo .CR2, i choose edit with photoshop, I work on it in PS and save it in .psd, usually automaticly the .psd appear immediatly in develop--> catalog, in the photo strip, beside the cr2, they stack together, but now no, when i save the .psd i can't find it, I find it only under library--> folder and not, as usually, also in the catalog, so i need go in library--> folder and move it in library--> catalog, for find it also in the develp--> catalog. is understable my problem?


By @Davide5C99


No, I don't understand it. I think you mix a few things up. How and where do you move it in Library - Catalog? I suspect you mean you need to add it to a collection in the Collections panel, not the Catalog panel. The collections in the Catalog panel fill themselves, you do not 'move' images in there manually (except perhaps into the 'All Synced Photographs' collection if you want to sync them).

 

What happens when you send an image to Photoshop depends on where you start. When you send an image to Photoshop, the resulting image will always automatically be in 'All Photograps'. That is because this is a smart collection that shows all photos in Lightroom. You will also always see the returned image in the folder where the original is stored. 

 

If you select a normal collection and then send an image to Photoshop, then the returned image is added to that particular collection, but not to any other collection. The returned image is automatically added to a smart collection if it matches the criteria of that smart collection. So if you start from a smart collection that searches for raw images, then the returned image from Photoshop will not show there because it is not a raw image. By the way: Stacks do not exist in a smart collection.


So in conclusion: from what you say I can only conclude that everything works as expected. You just need to understand what you can expect and what you can't expect. If you want the image to be returned to a certain collection, so you will see it in that collection when you are in the Develop module, then select that collection first and then send the image to Photoshop.

 

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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February 24, 2024

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. The Library - Catalog panel contains a number of default collections, so as 'All Photographs', 'All Synced Photographs', Quick Collection' and a few more. The new DNG image should be in 'All Photographs', but not necessarily in one of the other collections. If the DNG shows in your folders panel, then everthing went as expected. So where exactly do you expect the DNG to show but it does not?

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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Davide5C99Author
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February 24, 2024

Ok, I think i explain bad, sorry my english, I make another example, I have a raw photo .CR2, i choose edit with photoshop, I work on it in PS and save it in .psd, usually automaticly the .psd appear immediatly in develop--> catalog, in the photo strip, beside the cr2, they stack together, but now no, when i save the .psd i can't find it, I find it only under library--> folder and not, as usually, also in the catalog, so i need go in library--> folder and move it in library--> catalog, for find it also in the develp--> catalog. is understable my problem?

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
JohanElzengaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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February 25, 2024
quote

Ok, I think i explain bad, sorry my english, I make another example, I have a raw photo .CR2, i choose edit with photoshop, I work on it in PS and save it in .psd, usually automaticly the .psd appear immediatly in develop--> catalog, in the photo strip, beside the cr2, they stack together, but now no, when i save the .psd i can't find it, I find it only under library--> folder and not, as usually, also in the catalog, so i need go in library--> folder and move it in library--> catalog, for find it also in the develp--> catalog. is understable my problem?


By @Davide5C99


No, I don't understand it. I think you mix a few things up. How and where do you move it in Library - Catalog? I suspect you mean you need to add it to a collection in the Collections panel, not the Catalog panel. The collections in the Catalog panel fill themselves, you do not 'move' images in there manually (except perhaps into the 'All Synced Photographs' collection if you want to sync them).

 

What happens when you send an image to Photoshop depends on where you start. When you send an image to Photoshop, the resulting image will always automatically be in 'All Photograps'. That is because this is a smart collection that shows all photos in Lightroom. You will also always see the returned image in the folder where the original is stored. 

 

If you select a normal collection and then send an image to Photoshop, then the returned image is added to that particular collection, but not to any other collection. The returned image is automatically added to a smart collection if it matches the criteria of that smart collection. So if you start from a smart collection that searches for raw images, then the returned image from Photoshop will not show there because it is not a raw image. By the way: Stacks do not exist in a smart collection.


So in conclusion: from what you say I can only conclude that everything works as expected. You just need to understand what you can expect and what you can't expect. If you want the image to be returned to a certain collection, so you will see it in that collection when you are in the Develop module, then select that collection first and then send the image to Photoshop.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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