LrC 14.5.1 Smart Collections not filtering on rules

[cos49]

I have a Smart Collection as shown

I presume the 'all' match is an AND operator on the rules, but I'm getting images that are in collections.  Am I missing something here.

Also, on the filter bar under Attributes I had the virtual copy selected and thought that may have had something to do with it, but disabling the filter bar didn't change anything.

Thanks for any insight.

[JohanElzenga]

You can't use "is empty" for this, because the smart collection looks for collection names and a name cannot be empty. Instead, use "<does not contain> a e i o u y". That looks for collections that do not have any vowels in their name, so it normally won't find any images that are in a collection. If you use collections with just numbers in their name, like "2025", then add numbers as well. Do not forget to add a space between each letter/number.

[cos49]

This doesn't seem to work either.

I think the problem may be that these items may be part of a plug-in thing and as such Smart Collections don't see them.

[JohanElzenga]

I'm not sure about published collections, but this should definitely work on normal collections. Be aware that you can only search on normal collections, not on smart collections.

[johnrellis]

Building on @cos49's reply, the "Collections" and "Published collections" fields in your screenshot come from the Search Replace Transfer plugin that you've installed. Smart Collections will correctly search those fields, but you need to "refresh" them manually for them to contain current values.  See the plugin's documentation for details about how to use that feature:

https://www.photographers-toolbox.com/products/jbeardsworth/findreplace/index.php?sec=parse 

[cos49]

Thanks.

I selected all images in the Library and ran the Refresh Workflow filter and all the normal collections were picked up.  However, the Published Collections were not.

All of the Published Collections are in AgLibraryPublishedCollection.  The only published collections I have are SmugMug, but don't know if that has anything to do with it.

[johnrellis]

"However, the Published Collections were not."

I think you'll have to contact the plugin's author directly about this -- he's pretty responsive.

[cos49]

FYI for others that may be using this plugin.  The author has acknowledged the issue and will have a fix in the next update.