Request/Suggestion: Additional filter option to select Virtual Copies

The new (Win) Filter menu is an improvement; image

Adding ability to specifically select Virtual Copies (separate from their Master version) would be helpful for the regular queries on this forum asking how do manage/delete VCs

John M

John

I sort my photos by virtual copy number before destroying them.
Simple and efficient.
Pascal

Yes, that’s an easy and effective approach, Pascal - - but it doesn’t seem obvious to some/many users. I figure it would be a useful feature for the filter tool, and one that users are likely to expect.

John

What about those of us who rename our virtual copies? How would you handle that?

They’re still VC’s … The proposal is simply to have an option to highlight them.

This is not a feature I’d regularly use myself, but I often see questions on this forum along the lines of “How can I delete all those VCs that I don’t want ?!” … This would provide an obvious solution.

John

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This is a feature I’m looking forward to on Windows :frowning:

Pascal

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image

Ahh, pity - A missed opportunity to include this suggested filter too … Sigh !

John M

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I recently suggested the “filter for virtual copies” to the DxO helpdesk. DxO confirmed receipt of my request and passed it on to the technical department.
Not surprisingly, this was a topic long before my request, and I dug that up just now.
A possible workaround is to sort images in the image browser according to “Images addition order”. Virtual copies appear to be sorted first or last, at least in my setup.

yes, this one

( and never used it )

Wolfgang,

That is a sort option, not a filter. I am not sure how @decpi would expect a VC filter to work.

Mark

which is why he said

A possible workaround is to sort images in the image browser according to “Images addition order”. Virtual copies appear to be sorted first or last, at least in my setup.

BTW, I wasn’t aware one can “sort” for VCs.

It is not a specific sort for VC’s on the Mac (Wolfgang has the Windows version).


But it shifts the VC’s together under the right circumstances. Obviously a shaky workaround and so I hope a specific filter will be added within DxO.