Lightroom Classic: Can I create a smart collection to find all photos not in a collection?

This doesn't really work for me - maybe becuase I mainly use Smart Collections? Does this filter only works with regular Collections?

The "Collection" criterion only examines the names of regular collecitons, not smart collections or published collections.

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Hi, did you get this solved?
 

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Thanks for the swift response, I saw that, but its a Smart Collection, not  a filter. I am familiar with Smart Collections and use them extensively, but I was hoping that there just might be a way of using  one of the Text/Attribute/Metadata criteria to filter a view on a given folder or folders. I am still on LR6, so was hoping that LR-CC/Classic might help with this. Thanks again.

There’s no way to use the Library Filter bar. But you can restrict the results of a smart collection to a particular folder or regular collection:

1. Click on the smart collection.

2. Select all the photos displayed.

3. Click on the folder or regular collection.

At this point, the selected photos are those that are in both the smart collection and the folder/regular collection. You can add those to the Quick Collection or whatever.

Ok,is it possible to go the other way,convert a regular collection to a smart collection ?

I can't think of any reason you would want to do that.  You could create the following smart collection that reflects the contents of the Collection. "Working Set 2" but what would be the point of doing that.