Smart Album - based on a certain folders content

Ryan Ball

• June 03, 2020 09:19

Hi, 

 

I'm trying to create a smart album in a session which shows .iiq files within the capture folders only. Currently my search is showing images in all session folders and even worse the trash folder contents.

This is my current smart album setup

Is there anyway to do this? I've looked at the search features but I can't see where you can specify a folder/s to apply the search.

 

Thanks

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  BeO

  • June 03, 2020 11:36

  

  I don't think it is possible to restrict the filter to a folder, at least I did not find a way. I was thinking maybe with projects, but this seems to be a catalog concept only.

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  Warren Katchmar

  • June 18, 2020 00:35

  Hi,

  I too was hoping to create a smart album for a specific folder and I am not seeing how to do it.  Also, I would like the smart album to search specific folder and it sub-folders.... but I am not sure if that can be done too?  I miss LR sub-folders searches....

   

   

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  Timothy Devick

  • August 04, 2020 05:58

  Could you maybe select all files in a particular folder (ctrl-A on a PC) and then add a keyword identifying the folder contents? For example, if you have folder that contains images from a concert, say, select all those files, go to the Keywords tool, then add a keyword identifying the concert. This will add the keyword to all selected images. Then you can create a smart folder that uses the keyword you created to narrow your search to just that folder. I've used this as a workaround quite a bit.

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  SFA

  • August 04, 2020 12:05

  If you have a filter defined it will (or should) filter on the currently selected images.

   

  So "All images" means you are filtering the entire session.

  If you have selected a folder it should filter in that folder

  A Smart Album, by it's nature, is intended to look across all images known to the session unless you constrain it.

  I think the problem of Trashed images is about identifying them as trashed (and there are times when Automatically excluding them could be unhelpful! Rarely  ... but sometimes ...)

   

  Mostly I think most people use a star rating or colour tag (probably applied prior to trashing) and those can easily be filtered as part of a Smart Album. However there are other IPTC fields, including keywords as already mentioned, that could be used.

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