Can Lightroom create a Smart Collection for photos with an empty Location field?

Asked 1/15/2011

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I want a Smart Collection that finds images where the Location metadata field is blank. In Lightroom 2, I tried a rule like Location | is | with the value left empty, but it returns no photos even though many images have no Location entered. Lightroom has an is empty option for Keywords, but I don’t see that for Location. Is there a way to do this in Lightroom 2?

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Photography Stack Exchange contributor

15y ago

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As we've discussed in the question comments, it's working for me as expected in Lightroom 3.

So, I guess one "answer" is "Upgrade". :-\ It's $99.

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15y ago

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Based on the reported behavior, Lightroom 2 does not appear to handle an empty Location field correctly in a Smart Collection using Location | is | with a blank value. A confirmed workaround from the discussion is that this works as expected in Lightroom 3, so the practical solution is to upgrade.

In short: this seems to be a limitation or bug in Lightroom 2 rather than a missing trick.

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Can Lightroom create a Smart Collection for photos with an empty Location field?

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