Technical Problem With Virtual Copies

[Nicola23544564yqzs]

Can anyone help me?  For some reason I am not able to create virtual copies in Lightroom.  This function seems not to be working, when it alway has previously.  Any ideas to fix this would be much appreciates.  Nikki

[JP Hess]

You might consider simply restarting Lightroom. Sometimes that seems to resolve a lot of quirky little issues for me.

[Per Berntsen]

What happens when you try? Is there an error message?

Have you tried using the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl + ' (apostrophe) ?

If the virtual copy is stacked with the original, selecting the original and pressing S will unstack it.

[DS256]

A couple of things to consider:

• Are you in a Collection when you create the VC? I'm not sure the VC is automatically added to the collection.
• Have you looked for the VC after it was created?  Select All Photographs the use the Library filter to look for part of the file name is was copied from.

[JP Hess]

Virtual copies can be added to collections.

[DS256]

Yes @JP Hess VC's can be added to collections. I wasn't sure if you were in a collection and made a VC if it would automatically be added to collection.

[JP Hess]

It WILL be added to the collection if the user is already in the collection. Have you tried it? That was the whole reason and motivation for my answer. Sorry I didn't clarify it sufficiently.

[JohanElzenga]

If you still have this problem, then try resetting the preferences: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/

[Rob_Cullen]

Is there any chance you have the Attribute Filter set for [Original Photos] only?

[joe8877]

Wow. Thank you! What a truely garbage software.