Find / Filter all Variants

Phrank

• June 19, 2023 23:51
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I have created an extra album with variants in a different colour edit. Finally have decided I don't need them anymore and deleted the album with the variants.

Well "unfortunately" variants will end up as well in the lbrary and don't be deleted there.

How to filter / search for them and delete a bunch of varinats? In lightroom it was possible to filter for virtual copies aka variants.

A workaround would be to use colour tags, ratings or keywords, but I forgot to do it when I've made the new variants.

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  BeO

  • June 20, 2023 02:54
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  filter for virtual copies aka variants.

  A workaround in C1 is to make use of the

     main menu > Select > Select by Same > variant position

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  Ian Wilson

  Moderator

  • June 20, 2023 08:47
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  BeO is right about the (fairly easy) way to do this.

  I'd also add that the issue Phrank has encountered is a reminder of how albums work. They are virtual collections, and deleting from an album, or indeed deleting the whole album, does not delete the images in question. You have to go back to the actual folder they are in to do that. And that's a good thing, in my view. As Phrank found, you can put together an album, use it for a temporary purpose (such as trying out a different look) and get rid of it again, without harming your original images.

  Ian 

  EDIT: though I ought to add that using variants is a good idea. The flipside of using an album is that what you do to the images in the album is done to the actual images, so if you just try out a new look on them the new look is applied to those images wherever they are found, in the original folders and in any other albums they may have been added to. If you don't want the existing edit on the original variants changed, use a variant.

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  Phrank

  • June 24, 2023 08:23

  Thanks to everybody for the infos.

  @BeO this workaround "main menu > Select > Select by Same > variant position"  helped me now to clean up my library. I still would prefer if there's a simple smart search function.

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