I wish Adobe would not just change stuff like this that people have gotten used to taking advantage of. I mean, I'm sure the union is useful too, but so was the intersection, and now everyone who took advantage of the intersection is screwed. Why not just add an option, instead of changing the behavior out-right? I realize that Lightroom is trying to stay streamlined and simple..., still, once the door has been left open for a while, shutting it often leaves people out in the cold. In this case for example, no behavior had been assigned to shift-ctrl-click on a folder, so that could have been used for the newer behavior - nothing cluttering the UI: just one more line on the list of keyboard shortcuts. If Adobe really felt the intersection behavior was bad for business, i.e. newcomers getting confused, the shift-ctrl-click could have been used for the older behavior. That would require the old-timers to re-learn, but at least the capability is still there............

noalorama5 wrote:

 

but why to change it in a first place? I wonder if simplicity or such was the reason as I don't think it was confusing or complex. It just worked when you wanted and was much more useful then the union IMO. On the contrary the union is confusing to me. Wish they would change it back.

The current behaviour is how most people would expect ctrl clicking to work. That's a good enough reason.

I'd say the current use is much more common than you think. Collections, like folders, are "sources" or containers, regardless of whether they are virtual or not. In almost evy common case, such as Explorer or Finder, Ctrl or Cmd clicking does a multiple select. I'm pretty confident that was why the old behaviour was removed, or corrected.

In a way, what you're doing is filtering the folder. Would saving some filter presets not do the job, or look up my workflow smart collections article.

In a way, you're pointing to how missing photos is poorly-implemented. I agree that it's of much less use as a simple global collection - it should be available as a field in the filter panel.