Lightroom Classic CC 7.4Windows 10 Pro (1703|15063.1088)Yesterday, I was happily working within my Lightroom catalog, sorting, stacking, and processing photos. I use photo stacks to isolate groups of similar photos, HDR, Panorama, etc. Everything worked as expected. Great! I closed the catalog, opened another and proceeded with another photo task.Fast forward to today. I need to make changes to some of the processed photos in the first catalog, and so relaunched Lightroom Classic CC: All the stacked photos no longer appear to be stacked.The menu option is missing.in the library and develop modulesThe contextual menu option is missing.in the library and develop modulesThe icon indicating the stack order is missing from the thumbnails.Looking at the photos in the folder view instead of the collection view, the stacking menu appears, but it is completely grayed out.I've tried:clearing the cacherestarting Lightroomrestarting the computershut the computer down, waiting several minutes, and restartingloaded a different catalog, (the stacking in that catalog was retained) and switching back to the problem catalog. Stacking still broken, missing, awol, snafu, fubar, etc.Is there a way to rescue this functionality or is the catalog kaput, corrupted, ready for file 13, done for?

Inspiring

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Stacking in Catalog Broken

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June 27, 2018
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Lightroom Classic CC 7.4

Windows 10 Pro (1703|15063.1088)

Yesterday, I was happily working within my Lightroom catalog, sorting, stacking, and processing photos. I use photo stacks to isolate groups of similar photos, HDR, Panorama, etc. Everything worked as expected. Great!

I closed the catalog, opened another and proceeded with another photo task.

Fast forward to today. I need to make changes to some of the processed photos in the first catalog, and so relaunched Lightroom Classic CC:

All the stacked photos no longer appear to be stacked.
The menu option is missing.in the library and develop modules
The contextual menu option is missing.in the library and develop modules
The icon indicating the stack order is missing from the thumbnails.
Looking at the photos in the folder view instead of the collection view, the stacking menu appears, but it is completely grayed out.

I've tried:

clearing the cache
restarting Lightroom
restarting the computer
shut the computer down, waiting several minutes, and restarting
loaded a different catalog, (the stacking in that catalog was retained) and switching back to the problem catalog. Stacking still broken, missing, awol, snafu, fubar, etc.

Is there a way to rescue this functionality or is the catalog kaput, corrupted, ready for file 13, done for?

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Correct answer Michael Trout

Okay, first of all, Thank you both for your comments and suggestions.

I have to attribute this to a USER ERROR (PEBKAC)... along with a UI USABILITY error...

I have the collection grouped using Collection SETS and sub-collections. In this case, there was a single collection in the collection set, where normally there are more sub-collections (portraits, misc, other event, etc.). As it turns out, I had the collection SET selected, not the collection within the set. Once I selected the collection... BAM! Stacking commands suddenly work.

Face, meet palm.

Michael TroutAuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

Okay, first of all, Thank you both for your comments and suggestions.

I have to attribute this to a USER ERROR (PEBKAC)... along with a UI USABILITY error...

I have the collection grouped using Collection SETS and sub-collections. In this case, there was a single collection in the collection set, where normally there are more sub-collections (portraits, misc, other event, etc.). As it turns out, I had the collection SET selected, not the collection within the set. Once I selected the collection... BAM! Stacking commands suddenly work.

Face, meet palm.

johnrellis

Legend

I have to attribute this to a USER ERROR (PEBKAC)... along with a UI USABILITY error...

LR's stacking design is indeed baroque and confusing, so confusing that Adobe's technical writers couldn't even describe its behavior accurately: Lightroom: Incorrect documentation for stacking | Photoshop Family Customer Community .

You could add your constructive opinion to this feature request in the official Adobe feedback forum: Lightroom: Stacking in folders and collections should be global | Photoshop Family Customer Community . Be sure to click Vote and Follow in the upper-right corner.

Todd Shaner

Legend

johnrellis wrote
LR's stacking design is indeed baroque and confusing, so confusing that Adobe's technical writers couldn't even describe its behavior accurately: Lightroom: Incorrect documentation for stacking | Photoshop Family Customer Community .
You could add your constructive opinion to this feature request in the official Adobe feedback forum: Lightroom: Stacking in folders and collections should be global | Photoshop Family Customer Community . Be sure to click Vote and Follow in the upper-right corner.

That's enough to choke a horse and I've been bitten by some of them myself. Good to know the LR Reference PDF has been updated to document these stacking peculiarities. Thanks John!

http://helpx.adobe.com/in/pdf/lightroom_reference.pdf