Show hidden albums _only_
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Tim Riley
It's nice that I can use "View > Show Hidden Albums" to reintroduce them to the full collection, but if I have only a few hidden albums in a large collection, they are still very hard to spot.
One of the things I would like to be able to do is review _only_ my hidden albums, so I can be confident about what exactly is hidden.
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Tim Riley
Another awkward aspect: from within this "Hidden albums" smart collection, I can't right click the albums and select "Unhide".
The only way to unhide these albums seems to be:
- Remember their name
- Go back to "My Library"
- Scroll to or search for the album
- Right click and select "Unhide"
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Tim Riley
Ah, thank you @Adrian Schönig, this is a neat trick!
It looks like this smart collection stays in sync, too, which is awesome. Do I need to keep the shortcut in place for the smart collection to remain working?
There's one awkward aspect to this: by default, this "Hidden albums" smart collection shows nothing within it, because hidden albums are hidden by default. I have to remember to "View > Show Hidden Albums" when I want to review the smart collection, and do the reverse again when I'm done and want to go back to other collections. Perhaps this is why this might be useful as a built-in feature at some point, because you just do the right thing without requiring user intervention?
Adrian Schönig
Tim Riley: No, you don't need to keep the Shortcut around. It was just used for the creation, but the smart collection will keep working without it.
I also noticed that aspect. I'd consider that a bug: The "show hidden albums" toggle should be disabled (and ignored) on such smart collections. I'll fix that up.
Adrian Schönig
Tim Riley, You can already do that with a Shortcut (or by asking Claude using the built-in MCP server in the Mac app). You can then save that as a smart collection, too.
Here's an example Shortcut which does just that: