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[Edited:] Deleting some items in a collection appears to delete all of them

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 6:12 pm
by alanterra
[See note at end, this is an incorrect description of a bug]

I am trying to find all items in a collection that do not meet a certain criterion, and it isn't working. This appears to be a general bug in static collections: if you filter a collection by a criterion, select all, delete those items, you actually end up deleting all the items in the collection.

Here is a recipe for demonstrating it

Put a bunch of items into a collection (I put in 20 items)
Go to the filter and choose a criterion that selects some but not all the items (I used Date: 200)
Select all (⌘A) and delete, you will get a dialog that says "Delete N references from Group?"
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Say OK, and clear the filter -- the collection is empty!

Re: Deleting some items in a collection actually deletes all of them

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:39 pm
by Jon
I can't reproduce that. Please Rebuild your library. If you still see this problem please contact tech support directly, and include screen snaps of what you're doing.

Jon
Sonny Software

Re: Deleting some items in a collection actually deletes all of them

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 1:56 am
by alanterra
I will. Thx

Re: Deleting some items in a collection actually deletes all of them

Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:54 am
by alanterra
I just sent you an email with the details. But to clear things up on the forum, the problem is not what I described here. It seems that clicking on the "Circle-X" in the filter does not immediately clear the filter under some circumstances, but this is just a (rare?) display error, not an error of program logic.