Weeding out photos not in any collection

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After I have put the best of my photos into different collections, I would like to be definitively delete all those that have NOT been allocated to a collection, in order not to take up unnecessary space. But there seems not to be any way to filter, based on collections, right?

The only work-around I have found is to:
1. Ensure that all photos in all collections have a rating.
2. Then going to the folders, I can filter those that have rating=none, select all and then delete them. (Alternatively, I can select all, flag as rejected, and then "Delete Rejected Photos".

Any better suggestion for doing this?
 
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[li]Select all the collections.[/li]
[li]Select All (Control-A)[/li]
[li]Go to All Photographs.[/li]
[li]Invert Selection (in the Edit menu)[/li]
[li]Delete selected photos.[/li]
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One gotcha with this is that if any of your photos that are in the collections are included in stacks, and the stacks are closed, then they will no longer be selected after Step 3. To be safe about this, before doing any of those steps, go to All Photographs, Select All, and Expand All Stacks. You can verify that you haven't lost anything by noting the number of selected photos before and after Step 3.
 
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Pretty sure this works. Set up a smart collection:

Collection / Doesn't Contain / a e i o u (etc if needed)
 
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[quote author=johnbeardy link=topic=8'47.msg54857#msg54857 date=125494571']
Pretty sure this works. Set up a smart collection:

Collection / Doesn't Contain / a e i o u (etc if needed)
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Ahh, what a smart trick!

In addition, I added the criteria "File type = Raw", thus only weeding out unused RAW files. I have a lot of old JPG photos also in the catalog, which were there before I started to use LR, and I sure do not want to delete any of those, they take up so little space.

I had not realized how infinitely useful the "smart collection" concept is!
 
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It's hugely valuable - think of filters as temporary "slicing and dicing" of the images, while smart collections are a long term organisational tool. Look up my workflow smart collection for some offbeat ideas. Also notice that holding down the Alt key when you hit the + button allows you to nest extra sub conditions.

John
 
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