Locate all references to an image (quickly)?
My most recent feature request. If anyone has a solution to this problem (AppleScript or otherwise), I'd love to hear it.
There is not, as far as I can tell, any way to locate all the projects, groups, albums, sessions, whatever, in which a given image is referenced. Assuming one does not import duplicates of a given image, it's more than likely that references to that image will exist in various locations throughout a catalogue, and it is often extremely useful to be able to find all the places in which that image is stored.
For me, the obvious example is in images that are submitted for different competitions: I would like to know which competitions that image has been used in. I have no way of finding that out other than to search each possible location.
Yes, I can select the All Images item and then specify a search for the image name through all the images in my catalogue. However, selecting All Images means sitting for quite some time as my 3.8GHz 8-Core Intel i7 iMac with 16 GB of RAM ponderously loads all the images into the Browser, and then specifying a search request to match the image name. Once that's accomplished, the images do show up rather quickly, but then I have no way of determining which folders/groups/projects/thingies in my Catalog they are stored in. The 'Show in Library' command apparently does nothing; selecting it has no effect.
What's needed is the ability to select an image and then choose a Find All References command which will bring up a dialog with a list of all the locations within a Catalog in which the image occurs.
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The 'Show in Library' command apparently does nothing; selecting it has no effect.
That's strange, it should show you the folder where your image file is stored in the library tool.
For me, the obvious example is in images that are submitted for different competitions: I would like to know which competitions that image has been used in. I have no way of finding that out other than to search each possible location.
For me, that matter is a question of perspective.
Your perspective is that there is a competiton, represented by e.g. an album, and a property of that competition is a list of images. This list of images is created by using the very propriatary C1 image to album assignments. (this info won't survive if you migrate to another catalog system unless there is a perfect migration tool, and it won't be part of the image if you export it either, it only resides in your C1 catalog)
My perspective is that there are images, and a property of an image is a list of competitions it was sent to. This list of competitions is done via keywords. This info will be part of any export and can be used in any other catalog system, and also in a C1 catalog via smart albums e.g. one smart album per competition.
Until your desired feature is immplemented in the future I see only the possibilty to visit all your albums (e.g. competion1) and give a keyword for each of the images in that album e.g. competition1. Then you will see in the keyword tool all the competitions a specific image was participating, and introduced an organization method (metadata based) which I think is better than C1 (or any other system's) propriatary static image to album assignments.
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That's strange, it should show you the folder where your image file is stored in the library tool.
It doesn't. If, for example, I have an image in a smart folder and I select it and choose 'Show in Library', nothing happens at all. The smart folder remains selected in the Library pane, rather than any of the projects/groups/albums in which the image resides being selected. You may argue that it's doing the right thing, in that the User Collections section of the Library pane is where the image is stored, but that's useless.
Then you will see in the keyword tool all the competitions a specific image was participating, and introduced an organization method (metadata based) which I think is better than C1 (or any other system's) propriatary static image to album assignments.
I see your point, but I'm afraid I don't really agree with it — at least, given the current state of C1 keyword management. The assigning of keywords in C1 is a clunky process at best, requiring multiple clicks and typing. Organising keywords in any way other than as a flat list is difficult (perhaps impossible, though I don't know, as there is no user interface visible to do so), which means I can't group related keywords (competitions, locations, subjects, whatever) as I want to. I can't drag and drop images onto keywords, or keywords onto images to easily tag them.
In short, whilst I understand that a lot of people like the idea of organising by keywords, doing so is orders of magnitude more difficult than simply dragging images into an album. If keyword management were as straightforward as album management (if, at the very least, one could tag albums with keywords and have them automatically assigned to images stored therein), then I'd be happy to use that.
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You may argue that it's doing the right thing, in that the User Collections section of the Library pane is where the image is stored, but that's useless.
No image is stored in the User Collections section, they are either stored "In catalog" or on the file system somewhere in your folders hierarchy, and at least in the latter case the library tool should jump to the folder where the image is stored. It is not supposed to jump to an album, project, group or anything of that kind, that's just not how it is designed to work.
I don't see the problem to work with keywords as you do, especially if using hierachical keywords (which you could use to 'model' your current or desired grouping) and the keyword library tool, not so much the keywords tool.
And I also don't understand why drag&drop should be easier then a simple click, it a shorter way to move your mouse before the click.
You could also postpone the action of keywording to the end of doing your assignments to albums, once for all images. Just select all images in an album and give them the keyword which represents the album's intent. An additional step but only once for each album (and each time you change assignments) and you can do this in just a few seconds.
I am pretty sure nothing of the above will convince you, that is easy to read, but of course it is always the balance between inconvience and benefit that counts, and that balance of course is always subjective.
Cheers,
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Again, I see your points. I don't necessarily agree with the argument that keywords are as easy as a folder hierarchy, but I'm willing to be proven wrong. I'll take a closer look at the keyword facility and see if I can't make it work better for me.
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