Organizer - Searches are showing files that don’t match

This is an old faq by John R Ellis.

There is a situation where the impossibility to select raw files only in version sets may be a big problem.

Suppose I want to recover disk space by keeping only the 'top of version set' and remove the large raw file (32.2 MB for my Fuji RAF files). That makes sense for a lot of pictures I'll never need to reconvert and re-edit. It's easy to "Flatten version sets" when you select collapsed version sets in your browsing space, but when your selection is the result of a search, you are shown both the best match files and the non matching ones as described in the faq. If your files are in stacks and not in version sets, you can use the menu View >> collapse all stacks for the highlighted files. There is no similar menu for version sets which are the general rule for raw files.

The workaround which seems to work with recent PSE versions is the following.

- you create an album such as 'Versions to flatten'.

- You launch the search and select all

- You move the album name over the selected files.

- The album now only shows collapsed version sets. Now you can select all the version sets of the album, right click and choose to flatten the version sets.

Flattening is rather slow, which may explain why it is not offered for version sets like in stacks.