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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: Chris Kern on August 17, 2011, 12:15:40 pm

Title: Export Multiple Smart Collections
Post by: Chris Kern on August 17, 2011, 12:15:40 pm

Does anyone know a way (presumably undocumented; at least I can't find anything in the Lightroom manual or on Adobe's support site) to export multiple smart collections -- for example, a collection set containing a group of smart collections.  I'm referring to exporting the rules for the collection sets, not the image files identified by the logical selector(s).  What I'm trying to do is create a single output file that can be used to transfer the rules for N collection sets to another catalog in one go, without having to manually create all the individual lrmscol files from the source catalog and import them to the destination catalog.

Title: Re: Export Multiple Smart Collections
Post by: john beardsworth on August 17, 2011, 02:11:20 pm

You can try File > Export as Catalog with just one image. Then import that into the other catalogue.  Look up my workflow smart collections for an example.

Title: Re: Export Multiple Smart Collections
Post by: Chris Kern on August 17, 2011, 03:46:13 pm

> You can try File > Export as Catalog with just one image.

Clever.  Thanks.