Thanks very much for your detailed reply. ... View more

Wobert, Thanks very much for your help. Your instruction were great. Best, Adrian ... View more

Thanks Gentlemen, I have now determined that not all data in the catalog was compromised, ie, only in some sub-folders within the folder. Can I follow the same path you have provided, except to just import the sub-folder? Once again, thank you. Adrian ... View more

Well it's good to know I am in good company😊 ... View more

The above screen shot shows the title truncated by the caption.   In the above image, if one clicks on the end of the title copy in order to add more text, the background highlights in blue.   In the above image, when attempting to add text to the title, the caption dominates with a blue screen.   The only workaround, to modify the title, is to click anywhere in the title text to get a white background, and then arrow across to the end of the title text, to add more information. I hope this helps.   Happy New Year, Adrian ... View more

I experienced the same problem, specifically dragging images to  a Gallery in the SmugMug LR  Classic Plugin. It was recommended that the problem could be fixed by going to Library>View>Sort> Ustinov Order, and change the order. For me it did not work, so I eventually deleted the Gallery, a d reloaded it with success. This has occurred twice, and each time the workaround worked. Where my problem started was when I deleted some images in the Gallery, and subsequently reloaded them after running the Dng images through the DXO PhotoLab V 4. LR Classic Plugin. Adobe Support told me that this is a known issue that is being worked upon. I hope this helps. Adrian T. ... View more

Hi Richard,  sorry to take some time to respond to yours Per your advice, I am now using Notes to generate Keywords before pasting them to LR, and given that Notes generates wedge shape, instead of curly commas and apostrophe's, it seems to have fixed the problem.   Thank you for your detective work. much appreciated. Adrian       ... View more

Hello Richard,  The following keywords were generated in Word and cut and pasted to lightroom.......   Adrian Tenser Travel Photography, Amritsar, Amritsar Lahore border, Colours of India, Explore India, Explore India with a camera, Images of life in India, India Border Security Force, India Border Security Force ceremonial uniform, India BSF, Indian soldiers, Life in India, Pakistani Rangers, Photographing India, Punjab, Tenser World Travel Photography, The Beating Retreat Ceremony Wagah India, The Great Trunk Road, The Great Trunk Road is one of Asia's longest and oldest highways, Travel in India, Travel photography, Wagah Attari border flag ceremony, Wagah border India, Wagah flag lowering ceremony Amritsar, www.tenserworldtravel photography.com,   To answer your question, yes there are some virtual copies where I have copied one of the images in the collection, and enlarged a section of the image.   Yes, I sync images on a daily basis, as well as entering data in the IPTC screen. As I mentioned earlier,  pasting keywords to the collection, either to a single image, or multiple images was fine until hitting return, when immediately, the newly pasted keywords were replaced with the ones I had deleted.   As I mentioned, whether a single image, or multiple images, if I delete the folder keywords, in a collection, and instead of pasting replacement keywords I type the new keywords, everything works like a charm.   I probably have twenty city collections for my India folder, and I tried pasting the same set of keywords to a number of collections, as an experiment, and the result was always the same, they didn't take. So since typing the keywords sticks, I have to assume that LR doesnt like pasting, but is happy with typing the identical words in the same order.   Lastly, I could be wrong, but I don't think virtual copies are the issue,  because the pattern is the same even when working with a single Dng image that is not virtual. I think there is a system glitch somewhere, because I do this all the time,  until now. Your input is very much appreciated. Adrian   ... View more

Further investigation discovered the source of  the issue, namely that deleting keywords for one, or a group of selected images, in a collection, and pasting new keywords in the Library module does not work as the replacement pasted keywords, revert to the folder generated keywords upon hitting the return key.   What was discovered is that applying and syncing high level keywords, such as the name of a country and country specific words at the folder level, before creating collections appears to dominate, and override replacement keywords entered by pasting at the collection level.   Attempting to delete these words in a collection, and pasting a new sub-set just doesn't work, as the Folder words dominate. However, deleting these keywords in the collection, and rather than pasting new words, typing them in instead works and the old folder keywords seem to have been dominated in a collection by typing, rather than pasting. Perhaps Adobe could look at this glitch/bug, since pasting should work as does typing.   Thanks for reading this adrian ... View more

Hello Richard,  Thank you for your detailed reply. I omitted to mention that in this particular file, even if I select one image, delete the keywords in the Library module(top right box), then paste new keywords, and hit G for grid view, the added new keywords are replaced by the ones I deleted. So it appears that auto sinc on or off is not the problem. However, if I select one image in grid, and rather than pasting the keywords, I type a keyword, it sticks. when I hit return. Similarly, if I highlight two images, and type a word, it sticks, so it appears that pasting seems to be the problem   Further, on synchronizing after typing in the test words, they do appear in the IPTC screen, and do stick in the Publish function.   Agreed, I could type all the keywords, rather than pasting, but that would be burdensome. This is something new, as developing a list of high level keywords and pasting them to a new collection is my standard operating method.   Again, referring to your reply, with all images highlighted, enabling or disabling Auro Sync makes no difference, the deleted keywords reappear on hitting return, with the pasted images gone.   Thanks, Adrian         ... View more

Ok, here is the workflow. With the SmugMug plugin installed in LR in Publish Services, one can set up a folder, and even limitless galleries(similar to LR collections). if one highlights a LR Folder, or collection it can be dragged and dropped into a newly created folder or collection  in the Publish SmugMug section of the Library module, and exported. I have just experimented to see if random photos selected from across the folders in the catalog, will export to SmugMug, and it works. I further created new folders and galleries with test names in the SmugMug LR Plugin and exported the original images in a folder to SmugMug, and it not only worked, but because it was a folder and not a stand alone collection that was exported, I am now able to sort the folder home images in Smugmug, whereas before, SmugMug did not allow sorting of a mix of folders and galleries(collections). Seems like the issue is now resolved, and once again, thanks to all the contributions. ... View more

When you say “export to individual folders” are you saying folders in Lightroom? ... View more

Thank you for your thought. When using the SmugMug plugin, there is no ability to create a new folder. As I have just read the in another post from Johan, it is impossible to have a photo resident in two Lightroom Folders. That said, it appears that whatever I have to engineer, has to be done in SmugMug, ie random photos from different folders in LR can only be resident as copies in a collection, but cannot be in two folders. Therefore I have to stick with exporting the random photos via a collection. Thanks to all for your contributions....much appreciated. Adrian ... View more

Thank you for your suggestion. Creating a folder for a pre-existing collection, even with name changes doesn’t seem to work. To recap, SmugMug sorts folders first and galleries(exported Lightroom collections) second. So alpha sorts for a home page presentation doesn’t work. I have tried renaming in LR etc. and that does not appear to work. My big issue is if one selects images from across many folders within a catalogue,( doing a text search), the only place those images can reside is in a collection. If one creates a folder and attempts to place the images there, the MOVE warning  appears, and I want the originals to remain in their respective folders. If anyone has further thoughts, please let me know. It has been suggested that I refer this to Photoshop Family. Thanks, Adrian ... View more

John, thank you in fact thank you all for being so proactive. Just one thought, as clearly you are all experts,  perhaps one of you could suggest to Adobe that they modify the Label field to a drop-down with choices, or a pop-up explanation to avoid others thinking this is just an added metadata sort field.  No doubt many users would benefit from this. Thanks again, Adrian ... View more

Bob, Very helpfully, thank you. Actually I don’t really have a mess, as these searches are not critical to my site. I will revert to only using the Keyword, Title, and Caption field. Surprisingly, Lightroom Classic does a far better search utilizing the keywords generated in Lightroom Classic. Nevertheless, I will certainly look into the plug-ins you suggested to do a cleanup. Again thank you. Adrian ... View more

Thanks for your information. I was not aware the the Label field was only for colour labels. Actually, I do not use colour labels, only stars, and only 5 stars vs unrated. Nevertheless, if I use the Text Filter, I still get images that do not have the search word in the Label, or in the search field of text filter or Metadata field of the unwanted image(for search purposes). Do you have any further thoughts. Thanks, Adrian ... View more

Hi, Sorry to take awhile to respond. I did not take any action, so no worries. Further, I had a long session with Adobe Support, and they strongly advised not to clone a drive due to the possibility of data loss. They also confirmed that both my images and catalog are on my external drive. The support person suggested a procedure for working remotely is as follows: From: Adobe Customer Care <adobecustomercare@adobe.com> Subject: Copying the data to a new drive As per your request here are the steps: 1. Copy the root folder from your existing external drive from the finder and paste it in your new external drive. 2. Remove the existing drive from your computer, make sure the LR Application is closed at this time. 3. Plug in the new drive and launch LR Application, locate the missing folder and you will be able to use the folders. 4. Make sure you launch the LR Application by opening the catalog from your new drive. ... View more