[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?"
Say OK, and clear the filter -- the collection is empty!
[Edited:] Deleting some items in a collection appears to delete all of them
[Edited:] Deleting some items in a collection appears to delete all of them
Last edited by alanterra on Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:55 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Deleting some items in a collection actually deletes all of them
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
Jon
Sonny Software
Re: Deleting some items in a collection actually deletes all of them
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.