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m00nbeamer
m00nbeamer
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July 27, 2022
Question

edited photos disappear from their collection

  • July 27, 2022
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Hi all. 🙂

I have a standard practice of creating Collection Sets for the current month, and then a Collection for each day's photos that correspond to the folder on my pc that the photos are being imported from. I first flag the photos I plan to edit, then edit copies of them with various Topaz products. The final version is what I export back to my pc. I noticed a while ago that if I left a collection, either to work in a different one or after a restart, that my edited photos were no longer in that collection. I used to 'stack with original', but then unchecked that box to see if that resolved the issue. It didn't. I can see the edited versions in All Photographs, complete with the flags, but I don't understand why they're no longer in their collections. And, it goes without saying that I *want* them in the same place they came from. Super frustrated, so thanks for any assistance you can provide.

 

Laura

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m00nbeamer
m00nbeamerAuthor
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August 2, 2022

I'm going to add a couple of example photos. I took and edited IMG_7504.cr3 yesterday. 1 star = original photo, 2 stars = after the first edit, 3 stars = is final edit. Just my way to easily find things that may not make sense to anyone else. 🙂  As you can see, all photos are also flagged. This morning, I came back to edit more photos and discovered that my 2 edited versions of the photo have again disappeared out of the collection. I'm not able to add them back to the collection either. This is really unworkable and if anyone can help me figure out if there's a setting I have wrong, that would be awesome. I went back to 'stack with original' but it didn't help. I can't recall exactly when I first noticed this behavior, but it's been months. Perhaps something that happened with an update, I don't know. But, having to go search through All Photographs in the library isn't a solution.

JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 2, 2022

The two screenshots don't show much, except that your edited tiffs are stacked. I assume that these screenshots were taken in 'All Photographs' and that would explain what's going on. If these photos are stacked in 'All Photographs', then that means you sent them to the plugin from within 'All Photographs', not from within the 8.1.22 RMNP collection. And that explains why these tiffs are not in that collection. They will only be added to that collection if you send them to the plugin from within the collection.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
JohanElzenga
Community Expert
JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 2, 2022

I have them stacked via preferences, and I only ever edit anything from within a collection.When this first started happening, I actually tried un-checking the 'stack with original' option, but it had no effect.

 

From the develop module, this is where I do my editing.

 


If you have them stacked via preferences, then they will only get stacked in the source when you send them to a plugin. So if you send them to the plugin from within the 8.1.22 RMNP collection, then they will only get stacked in that collection on return. They will not get stacked in 'All Photographs' and not get stacked in their folder. Your screenshot shows that they are stacked in 'All Photographs' however, so unless you did that manually this suggests you remember this wrongly and you were not in the collection when you sent them to the plugin. Which would also explain why they are not in that collection. I'm sorry, but I cannot come to any other conclusion.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
dj_paige
dj_paige
Legend
July 27, 2022

I can think of several things that might cause this

 

  1. The sort order moves the edited photo to a different location in the collection; it's there but its just not where you expect it to be
  2. You are using Smart Collections and the criteria of the smart collections causes the photo to be removed from the smart collection
m00nbeamer
m00nbeamerAuthor
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July 27, 2022

I never use smart collections, so definitely not that. And if I sort by flagged status, it should find them regardless of where they are in the collection. It doesn't, however. It only shows the original.

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