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Chara Dagres
I heavily rely on my "Uncategorized" smart album to find which photos are not in any album so that I can include them in my grooming sessions. The Smart Album is created by the command "Album, Is Not, Any". This is a common use within this community as far as I can tell.
Here's my problem: yesterday I accidentally created an album that includes all the photos currently in my library. I immediately deleted that album (not the photos) and went back to the Smart Album to continue selecting photos to add to albums but to my despair the album is now empty.
I've even found an apple script that checks if a photos is present in any albums and that returns a result showing that a specific photo is not present in any albums and yet it still doesn't show up in the smart album.
As a test launch Photos with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and test to see if the same problem persists. Does it? (This tells us if the problem is limited to your current library or is more wide spread)
The update to macOS 10.15.1 did not fix this. "Album is not Any" does still not work for photos that once have been in an album, if the album has been deleted. If I remove the photos from the album, before I delete it, all will be fine.
Which script have you been using? The older Apple scripts for albums (written for Photos 4.0 or earlier) do no longer work on Catalina, because they will only find top level albums and not the albums in folders.
Any script that is just asking Photos for a list of all its albums is broken in Photos 5.0 on Catalina. The scripts have to be changed to get recursively a list of all folders and then to retrieve the albums from each folder. I hope it is just a bug in the current version of Photos 5.0 and will be fixed by an update, before we have to go to the trouble to rewrite all our scripts for albums.
In my Aperture library, I make liberal use of folders to organize my projects and smart albums. When working with projects, I'd become accustomed to selecting a folder containing several projects and seeing all the versions across all the projects in the viewer. The same way the Photos view works at the library level.
I planned to exploit this folder view to simplify syncing photos to the family iPads and iPhones. As I've previously discussed, I've disabled preview generation for my Aperture library, choosing to create previews on-demand when I need them. The plan was simple: Create an "iSync" folder containing a set of Smart Albums for the photos I'd sync. Then, record an Automator service that highlights the "iSync" folder, selects all the images, and generates previews. Periodically I would run the service to ensure photos for sync'ing have a preview. That was the plan. But as I made plans, fate was laughing.
First, let's see what does work as I'd expected. In the screen shot below I have a "2012" folder highlighted, and the viewer displays all the images in all of the projects contained within that folder.
Now, create the "iSync" folder. In "iSync", create a simple Smart Album with all 4-star and higher images. In this example, there's 4 images that meet the criteria. Also, create an "Animals" Album and manually added 7 images to it.
In summary, images from Smart Albums aren't "rolled up" into a folder view. Put another way, "manually created image containers" will roll up. Both Projects and Albums are manual containers - the user chooses what goes in them. Whereas a Smart Album is system generated based on user criteria.
My only guess as to the why behind this behavior is that the Smart Albums are generated in real time. And the programming logic when a folder is selected doesn't trigger Smart Album generation. Whatever the reason, it dashes my simple "iSync" folder approach for iPad and iPhone sync. I don't want to keep updating an Automator action as more Smart Albums get added to the "iSync" folder. Back to the drawing board on that one...
Now here is your assignment: go make an album with both pieces of software, think about the items I have discussed and watch for even more differences. Prioritize the good and bad and decide which tool makes you faster, which gives you the most artistic freedom and which lets you enjoy the process. The one you choose should have a good score on all three of those requirements. Then buy the winner and start making albums and books!
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I would love to be able to create smart albums (aka smart collections) in the all-new Lightroom CC. Basically, a folder that contains a set of photos based on metadata information and updates automatically. The feature set should ideally contain all the options that exist in Lightroom Classic for smart collections. Thanks!
Whenever you delete a photo or video, it ends up here. Then, a 30-day countdown begins, after which those photos and videos are finally obliterated. This means that you have 30 days to rescue any accidentally-deleted pics. And if you really want an embarrassing photo gone right this minute, you can tap it and choose Delete from the on-screen options. Recovery works the same way, and will put a photo back to wherever it was before you deleted it.
The rest of these smart albums are pretty self explanatory. I like the Portrait album, which gathers together all photos taken in Portrait Mode, making it easy to pick out the ones I want to edit.
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In SmartAlbums, you will want to go to Edit > Select All Spreads, then Edit > Copy. Next, you'll go to File > New Project and setup a the desired size album/book. Once in the new project, select Edit > Paste.
To create a new album, choose File > New Album. You can drag photos to this album, as you would drag songs to a playlist in the Music app. To create a smart album, choose File > New Smart Album; a dialog displays:
Note: One thing to remember about albums in the Photos app is that if you sync your library to the cloud, only regular albums display on your iPhone or iPad; smart albums only display on the Mac.
Photos will probably display memories for your vacations, but you can use smart albums to group all photos from a specific location and/or time. Say you go to a beach house every year; you can create a smart album to group all the photos from there, but you need to use a workaround.
This works because photos contain EXIF data, a type of metadata about photographs, which includes information such as the camera and lens, the date and time a photo was shot, its exposure, aperture, ISO, and much more.
According to Apple's docs this estimatedAssetCount may not be accurate, and in cases where it's not available NSNotFound is returned. I suspect this is what's happening to you. In that case, I'd suggest continuing with Apple's docs suggestion, and just fetch all smart albums, and after they're fetched filter them down based on the (now accurate) count property.
Many of us have hundreds, if not thousands, of photos on our Mac computers that have been uploaded over the years, which can make it time-consuming to try to find a specific one. Well, we have a solution to that problem. Did you know there is a feature called Smart Albums you can use to organize your photos automatically and easily?
A Smart Album is a specific album that will live alongside your regular photo albums on your Mac, and it will have specific search criteria embedded within it that you choose when you create one. It can also update itself so that when you add or remove media from your Mac, your Smart Album will reflect these changes.
Smart Albums are available on all versions of Mac OS that support the Photos app. This includes Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10) and later. The latest MacOS, MacOS Sonoma, has many updates and improvements, including the ability to recognize people and pets in your photos and videos. This means that you can create Smart Albums that automatically group your photos and videos by the faces of your friends, family, or furry companions.
The thing about Smart Albums is that they are unique to the Mac computer, meaning that you cannot create a Smart Album on your iPhone or iPad. However, you can always transfer those iPhone and iPad photos to your Mac and create Smart Albums from there. You can also view some of the photos from your smart albums on your iPhone or iPad by using the search feature in the Photos app.