6 Replies Latest reply: Jul 24, 2010 9:26 AM by Gavin Farrington RSS

    Virtual Copy Not Added To Current Collection

    Gavin Farrington Community Member

      I'm looking at a standard (not smart) collection of images.  I want to create a virtual copy and have that copy automatically become a part of the collection I'm looking at.  This was the standard behavior in LR2.  Under LR3 I have to create a virtual copy, go out to "all photographs", grab the image and drop it into the collection, go back to the collection, and from that point I can continue editing.  What a round trip!  Any tips?

      Thanks!

        • 1. Re: Virtual Copy Not Added To Current Collection
          David A Rogers Community Member

          If I have images in a collection and then make a virtual copy while viewing that collection, the VC appears nect to the image IN the collection.  Is it possible you have some filtering going on. For example: If my image was flagged and I was filtering by flags in the collection, the virtual copy does not retain the flag and therefore wont appear in the collection.

          Incidentally this is the same behaviour as in LR 2

          • 2. Re: Virtual Copy Not Added To Current Collection
            Gavin Farrington Community Member

            Checked that.  Filtering is definitely set to "none".

            • 3. Re: Virtual Copy Not Added To Current Collection
              David A Rogers Community Member

              Im sorry, I cannot replicate your problem. For full disclosure in case it makes a difference, Im on a Mac. Perhaps others have had the same issue or can replicate it and offer a solution.

              • 4. Re: Virtual Copy Not Added To Current Collection
                Hal P Anderson Community Member

                It works fine for me on Win XP. How exactly are you creating your VC? Are you in Grid Mode? Are you doing it from the primary or secondary screen? Context menu, main menu, or keyboard shortcut?

                 

                You could try it in a small, freshly created test catalogue to see if the problem is confined to your original catalogue.

                 

                You could rename your preferences file because that sometimes fixes mysterious problems.

                 

                Hal

                • 5. Re: Virtual Copy Not Added To Current Collection
                  Gavin Farrington Community Member

                  Thanks for all the tips.

                   

                  I think I've figured out why the behavior isn't quite what I expected.  Here's the structure of my collection:

                  >Weddings {collection set}

                       >My Photography  {collection set} (to separate work I do for other photogs)

                            >John & Mary Wedding  {collection set}

                                 >Me {collection} (to separate images shot by me at the wedding)

                                 >Second {collection} (to separate images shot by my second)

                   

                  I spend most of my time sorting, rating, and editing from the "John & Mary Wedding" collection set.  This way I can see all images shot by my team in chronological order, but when I create a virtual copy from this location it only appears in "all images" and is not associated with any collection.  Th8is makes sense I suppose since images cannot be in a collection set, only a collection.

                   

                  So now that I've identified what I'm doing wrong, can anyone suggest a workaround or a better way to organize the images?  I like being able to keep individual photogs separate.  It may seem nit-picky, but I'd rather not have to jump back and forth between collections while working.  I'm dealing with too many images.

                   

                  Thanks in advance.

                  • 6. Re: Virtual Copy Not Added To Current Collection
                    john beardsworth Community Member

                    Do you need to separate the photographers into different collections? Why not fill in the creator name? Or maybe use coloured labels to distinguish yours and your second's?

                     

                    John