Lightroom Classic Release 13.0.2 Virtual Copies in Collection Set

[billh662526]

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?  

[dj_paige]

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]

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.