How do I jump to all photos no filter?

[someothername]

I tried to build a custom filter to be all photos with no filter, but it doesn't work. It simply applies no filter the currently selected folder or something. Sometimes I end up with "no photo selected".

I looked at the code behind the preset I'd built, and it seems to make sense, there's a line

searchTarget = "all",

which would seem to be the one that ought to be telling LR to go to the All Photos place, but that doesn't seem to work.

Any ideas?

By the way, I searched around for LUA and discovered it's just an open source language with the typical user-hostile C type syntax. So no problem there. Wonderful reference for that at http://www.lua.org/ but what I really need is the specific class definitions used by LR. The SDK doesn't seem to have anything except the export and web gallery parts of that.

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I found my solution. While taking another look at the preset with a text editor, and I discovered that hidden in there was

searchString = "nature",

which I changed to

searchString = "",

and that fixed it.

I had looked for a way to change an existing filter preset, but I didn't see one.



Nope. Turns out that does not do the trick. I've stopped and restarted LR and now the all photos no filter custom filter again no longer works. I select it and nothing happens. I try turning on and off the filter switch in the bar that appears and disappears without logic, but neither state has any affect when I select the all photos no filter custom filter.

Is this some kind of bug maybe?

 

[johnbeardy]

I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve, but photos do not have a filter property. The filter is a property of the container which is currently visible, be that a folder or dumb collection.

To remove the current filter, click None in Filter panel, or Ctrl or Cmd L switches off filtering.

 

[DJdeRidder]

Shortcut to display all photos no filters

I asked the same question on this forums some weeks ago. I'd really like to have a shortcut to switch to all photos with filters turned off. As far as I know it is currently not possible to do this in one step/shortcut.

I just made a feature request on Adobe's forum: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b6ba6a

If you agree please let them hear your voice, the earlier we will get this shortcut.

 

[Kiwigeoff]

I'd love to have a shortcut to be able to switch to all catalog photos with filters turned off.

AFAIK, currently it is only possible to get there by switching to 'All photos' in the left panel and pressing Ctrl/Cmd + L. This takes at least three actions: opening filmstrip or left panel, selecting all photos and turning the filter off.

It would be very useful if there is a keyword shortcut to do this!

Dirk, use the Request Feature in the toolbar at the top of the page!!

 

[johnbeardy]

Well if that's the real question, I see the point and have been asking for a menu command which flushes every filter from the catalogue. I restrict my use of the filters as much as possible, and try to reset the panel to None immediately after using one. Smart collections are much more powerful and don't hang around when you don't want them.

 

[someothername]

No wonder so many people have problems finding their photos in Lightroom. I rather imagine the filter behavior has driven more than a few customers away from this otherwise fantastic product. It never dawned on me that a filter was firmly attached to the folder that I happened to be in when I turned it on. I've been going along turning filters on and off on the assumption that a filter was a temporary thing that disappeared when I moved to another folder.

Now that I think about it, I can see how the idea emerged -- it's like the where clause in a database query. However, in practical user terms it can only cause confusion unless the user has all their photos in a single folder.

The best way to fix this is to add a default column to specify the folder or collection this filter applies to, and whether or not subfolders are to be included. And to throw away the filter when it is turned off unless the user elects to make this a filter preset. Having the current folder be the default entry in the folder column is fine.

In effect this would make a filter functionally the same as a smart collection, just specified in a different place and not showing up in the tree of collections. I think there is a role for what amounts to a temporary smart collection -- perhaps if I had a client sitting next to me and I wanted to apply a quick filtering to our last shoot to generate a slideshow on the spot. Using the Library Filter drop downs would be a lot quicker than setting up a smart collection, and perhaps I don't want to save these settings as preset or smart collecitons.

I'm inclined to think there should only be one filtering mechanism, and I would like to be able to specify a smart collection using the user interface provided by the "Library filter" column set up.

So, in the meantime, I guess I need to avoid filters completely, as useful as the seemed to be before finding out that they are hidden persistent animals.

 

[johnbeardy]

Use filters when you don't know what you're doing or your questions change as you drill down. But when you know what you are doing and what you need to find, use smart collections. They can target more aspects of the database, include conditional criteria (Alt/Opt and plus button), can be organized in sets with dumb collections, and they remember output module settings. IOW smart collections help you get organized.