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August 7, 2015
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  • August 7, 2015
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Metadata fields provide an opportunity to liberate us from the difficulties of using the file system (filenames and directories) for sorting and searching. The Lightroom sort options should take advantage of this. I would particularly like to sort on the Title and Caption fields, and to use multiple sort criteria, as in Sort by Title and then by Capture Time.

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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 28, 2020
    I would like the ability to filter on any number of image data points, but I feel like Adobe cares more about integrating more of Photoshop into Lightroom than it does about implementing useful image management features. Thus I would like to ask this community for their opinions on the best alternative to Lightroom.
    PhotoBean
    PhotoBean
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    August 10, 2019



    Wellie, welly, well, my Droogies.  Here it is 8 years later and still no sort by size in Lightroom CC.  Much caring about customers, yes.....

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    March 6, 2019
    You can't do it with built-in LR commands, despite years of feature requests. But you can use one of several plugins: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-sort-enhancements?topic-reply-list[...
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
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    March 6, 2019


    It would sure help me out if Lightroom Classic could sort images by Title. Any way I can do that?
    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    February 20, 2019
    The List View, Data Explorer, and Any Filter plugins can sort by additional fields (and multiple fields).
    Califdan2
    Califdan2
    Inspiring
    February 19, 2019
    As far as I can tell, still no sort by "Caption".  

    You can show your captions in the grid cells (I'd use expanded cells) and then "custom" sort order and manually drag images to the desired order, but can't think of an automated way to do this.  I suspect there is a plugin that may help but don't know of any specific one (perhaps jfriedl's "metadata wrangler")

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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
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    February 19, 2019
    In Lightroom (Classic 2019) would like to sort a collection of images by caption. Is this implemented yet? I just made a slideshow and I want it to play in an order by caption, alphabetically. As stated here previously the sorting options in Lightroom seem to be lamentable.

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    PhilCaskey
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    December 20, 2018

     

    I see we can sort by Aspect Ratio; however, that is NOT the same as File Size.

    Particularly when dealing with smartphones and backups, duplicates can have different timestamps, filenames, etc., but still be the same (or nearly so) image with the same file size. Sorting by File Size would allow us to quickly skim the thumbnails to find duplicates!

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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
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    December 20, 2018



    Lightroom bizarrely lacks sort by file size function. Please add to next update!
    Anyone who doesn't see the URGENT need for this function it would seem doesn't have much of a photo library, with edited/copied/duplicates to sort. Think numerous Macs/portable hard drives and the inevitable build up of backups. I'd rather have too many copies than delete an important image hence the issue.
    I can sort by 'file type' or 'file extension' which to me seems redundant compared to what I am asking as the two are rarely different. I have to resort to using the finder - which not only I shouldn't have to - but that it also interferes with Lightrooms' catalogue/folder hierarchy/structure/integrity and surely the task should be a very basic feature of Lightroom. I'm not only still frustrated after each update reveals this function is still missing but stunned that it's not been there since the very beginning. Outside plugins and apps are available but why on earth is it not a basic function. Did I repeat basic function? Basic function.

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    davids84228917
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    December 20, 2018



    The long and short of it is in the question, however, the suggestion at the bottom here is to get emotional and asks how it makes me feel. Well then. I've invested an awful lot of time consolidating the best part of 2TB worth of images originally scattered all over the place from different drives. Lightroom is good for that. However, so many are duplicated and are in different sizes. Easy then. Just sort by size, then get rid of the small duplicates...Just like I can do in Bridge. Only I must be missing something. I see no option to do so. At this stage my blood is starting to boil. Are those good people at Adobe so short sighted as to have left this option out? WHY?!!!!

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