Why doesn’t a Lightroom smart collection show photos I flagged inside another collection?
Asked 3/12/2012
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In Lightroom, I created a smart collection/photoset for Flickr with rules like:
- Collection contains “Nepal”
- Pick Flag is flagged
I expected that if I flagged photos while viewing my “Nepal 2010” or “Nepal 2011” collections, those images would automatically appear in the smart collection. But nothing shows up.
Why doesn’t this work, and is there a Lightroom limitation or setting I’m missing?
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I think I may have discovered the solution to this myself, but for the benefit of others who stumble across this question later, this adobe forum post clears up the situation.
In summary: in Lightroom 3, the flagged status of a photograph is not global. Only photographs flagged in folders or other smart collections will show up in a smart collection configured to include flagged photographs. Apparently, this "feature" is no longer a problem in Lightroom 4.
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This is a Lightroom 3 behavior rather than a mistake in your smart collection setup.
In Lightroom 3, a photo’s flagged state is not effectively treated as global in the way you expected when the flag is applied while viewing certain collections. As a result, photos flagged inside regular collections like “Nepal 2010” or “Nepal 2011” may not be picked up by a smart collection rule such as “Pick Flag is flagged.”
A workaround is to flag the images while viewing them in folders or in contexts that Lightroom 3’s smart collections can evaluate properly. Then the smart collection should include them.
According to the community answer, this limitation was addressed in Lightroom 4, where this is no longer a problem.
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