Issue: Image stacks brocken when insert into another collection

[AxelMatt]

Issue: 

• Lightroom Classic 10.4
• Windows 10 Pro 21H1 

Steps to reproduce:

1. Stack two or more images 
2. Select all images of the stack and move this stacked pictures into a collection or another collection.

Expected result: 

The images should be included in the approriate collection and already stacked

Actual result: 

Images were moved, but they are no longer stacked.

Stacked images

Images after moving into a collection. The images don't be stacked.

I see this bug since a few versions of Lightroom. As far as I know ther were already approriate entries in the bug forum in the past, but nothing happened. Please fix this bug.

[GoldingD]

Read ref 1, Expected behavior

(ref 1): https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/grouping-photos-stacks.html

[johnrellis]

To build on GoldingD's reply, that stacking behavior is by-design:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/grouping-photos-stacks.html 

"Stacks are specific to the folder or collection in which they were created. The photos in a stack must all be from the same folder or the same collection; you cannot create stacks while in a smart collection or a published collection.

"You can only view a stack in a folder when that folder (or other folders) is selected as a source, or when All Photographs is selected. You can only view a stack in a collection when just that one collection is selected as a source. Stacks are not visible when a mix of folders and collections is selected."

See here for precisely how weird, complicated, and confusing LR's stacking rules are:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/lr-classic-v8-2-1-stacking-missing-from... 

See here for the 2011 feature request to make stacks global, not tied to particular folders or collections:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/lightroom-stacking-in-folders-and-collections... 

That's going nowhere -- I don't think Adobe will ever change stacking behavior at this point, given how little they invest in Library.

[AxelMatt]

Thanks John for clarification.

I remember that's there are a feature request about that, but I don't found it and I don't think that the post wasn't so old.

I also think Adobe doesn't change the stacking behavior in the near future. But hope dies last.  🙂