Smart album, showing catalog files, not present in any album
Hello,
Is it possible to make a smart album, that list the images, that is NOT in any albums?
When removing an image from an album, it is still present in the catalog.
But when having 20.000+ images, i do not have any overview of what files are in collection album
and which files are not.
So any chance of making a smart album, selecting "homeless" files, or an easy way of just moving an
image from an album, straight to trash?
Is it possible to make a smart album, that list the images, that is NOT in any albums?
When removing an image from an album, it is still present in the catalog.
But when having 20.000+ images, i do not have any overview of what files are in collection album
and which files are not.
So any chance of making a smart album, selecting "homeless" files, or an easy way of just moving an
image from an album, straight to trash?
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Almost 2 years since this was posted, but now I struggle with the exact same thing. Did you ever find a solution? Seems to be a missing piece in Smart Album / search that would greatly improve usability. 0 -
If you can can handle using sqlite3 in Terminal (on Mac) or whatever is the equivalent on Windows, you could try this. 0 -
Great, thanks ! I am a better programmer than a photographer so that will be no problem, never thought about it could be an SQL back there.
The SQL query list the images and then I can manually search for them in C1. As mentioned in one of the posts, it would be very easy to implement this functionality in C1, anyone from Phase One reading these posts?
As a matter of fact, why not make an advanced search/smart album that exposes the SQL query?0 -
dev null wrote:
If you can can handle using sqlite3 in Terminal
Your query does not bring results here.0 -
I also get no result and I think the query searches for orphan images not in any catalog, so if they are listed in 'All images' they will not show up. I need to specify the catalogs it should include, tried to sort out the DB structure but tan out of time yesterday. Will see if I find a solution tomorrow. 0 -
Seeing no results might indicate all your images are in some album.
I tried again with 9.2 in case update changed something. Still worked. Opened the cocatalogdb file (in the linked thread I erroneously wrote cocatalog) with sqlite3, ran query, it listed the images. If the image is in Recent Imports, it will not show up (since it is in an album). The image I tried with was still listed in All Images, where I found it and put back into album where it was. Hence being in All Images does not matter as far as I can see.
However, playing around with this, I noticed that some images, when removed from album, go into trash, some do not. After removal the query found the image if it did not end up in trash. Might have something to do with having been imported from Aperture originally and moved around. That's off-topic but might explain why I ended up with the orphans to begin with. With new images or at least albums made in C1P, deleting from last album seems to work as I think it should, i.e. image ends up in trash.0
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