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Finding photos in catalog but not in user collections?

FWIW
I've been using C1 for a few months now - I just use a single catalog for all my photos, and whenever I import images I try to put them in my own albums under user collections. However, while doing this today, it made me wonder if there are any photos that I imported into the catalog, but had forgotten to place into an album.

I quickly added up the number of photos in all of the albums and luckily, it matched up with what is in the catalog. But if there had been a discrepancy, how would I go about finding those photos that are "missing" from my albums? I tried the search criteria but came up with nothing. Maybe I'm just not doing this right... any tips/pointers would be appreciated!
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  • Permanently deleted user
    This doesn't answer your question directly, but...

    I can do this in Media Pro:

  • Select all Catalog Sets (equivalent to Albums) to display all images currently in a Catalog Set/Album

  • Select Find > Show Hidden to display all images not currently in view, i.e., all images not in a Catalog Set/Album


    • Does CO have a function similar to "Show Hidden"?
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  • dev null
    FWIW I tend to process all images in albums in order to get them synced to my tablet and phone. Hence I can use a smart album with criteria "processed" as "is false". Images there are either intentionally unprocessed or forgotten.

    Sometimes I have an image in album and then I delete it but the original is left hanging in the catalog. For that I have a little shell script that makes a few queries in the SQLite 3 database inside catalog, then prints out the names of images not in any album. As far as I recall Recent Imports count as albums so that catches only old stuff. Not a handy one as I then need to seach all images with each file name and delete, but it works. There have been improvements in operations supported via AppleScript but I have not looked at that in order to see whether that could do the job now.
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