{"id":2326,"date":"2013-10-25T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T00:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-10-25\/2326"},"modified":"2013-10-25T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T00:30:32","slug":"possible-workaround-for-that-nasty-lightroom-publishselection-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2013-10-25\/2326","title":{"rendered":"Possible Workaround for that Nasty Lightroom Publish\/Selection Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>I have an update on <a\nhref='\/blog\/2013-06-10\/2268'>the nasty publish\/selection\nbug<\/a> that been plaguing some Lightroom users of late, in the selection shown in the grid is sometimes wrong.<\/p>\n\n<p>It <i>seems<\/i> that the bug exists only when Lightroom is started with <span class='nobr'>a\nsection<\/span> in the Publish Segmented Grid (<span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span>Modified Photos to Re-Publish<span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span>,\netc.) is closed. So, if you ensure that all segments are open, then restart\nLightroom and maintain them open, your grid-selection experience should be bug\nfree.<\/p>\n\n<div style='line-height:140%' class='ic wide'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr\/Lr5-Publish-Selection-bug2.png\" width=\"690\" height=\"362\"\nid=\"iLr5_Publish_Selection_bug2\"\/>\n<br\/><b style='font-size:120%'>Example showing two sections, one open and one closed<\/b>\n<br\/><small>clicking on the little triangle to the left of <span class='nobr'>a section<\/span> label toggles between opened and closed<\/small>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The opened\/closed state of each grid section is globally shared among\nall collections, so opening all four possible sections (New, Modified,\nDeleted, and Published) once takes care of it everywhere.<\/p>\n\n<p>Bug or not, you can always trust the selection shown in the filmstrip,\nso until this workaround is confirmed for sure, it's best to keep the\nfilmstrip open so that you can notice any divergence.<\/p>\n\n<p>This seems to be a big breakthrough in understanding this bug, and <span class='nobr'>I\nknow<\/span> that Adobe is aware of it (because they tipped me off to the\nworkaround to begin with), so <span class='nobr'>I have<\/span> hope we'll see <span class='nobr'>a fix<\/span> sooner rather\nthan later.<\/p>\n\n<p>I really hope <span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span>sooner<span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span>, because being able to close <span class='nobr'>a grid<\/span> section is\nthe only thing that makes the segmented grid useful in large collections. <span class='nobr'>I wish the<\/span> current grid header would be sticky to the top of the screen as\nyou scroll so that you know what section you're in if the header doesn't\nhappen to be visible. <span class='nobr'>I have some<\/span> collections with more than 100,000 items,\nmaking <span class='nobr'>a visual<\/span> search utterly impracticable. Even <span class='nobr'>a relatively<\/span> small\ncollection of 2,000 photos makes for 300+ rows of thumbnails to scan; very\nunfun unless you get lucky.<\/p>\n\n<p>I wonder whether it'd be better overall to just get rid of the Segmented\nGrid, instead adding a <span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span>Publish Status<span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span> item to the Grid Filter.....<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an update on the nasty publish\/selection bug that been plaguing some Lightroom users of late, in the selection shown in the grid is sometimes wrong.<\/p> <p>It seems that the bug exists only when Lightroom is started with a section in the Publish Segmented Grid (\"Modified Photos to Re-Publish\", etc.) is closed. So, if you ensure that all segments are open, then restart Lightroom and maintain them open, your grid-selection experience should be bug free.<\/p> <p>The opened\/closed state of each grid section is globally shared among all collections, so opening all four possible sections (New, Modified, Deleted, and Published) [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}