Does anyone have this plugin at hand, willing to share it with me? Rob and Rob’s site has unfortunately vanished.

You can choose between a set of Favorite Sources and Recent Sources while in the Develop module. You can see this list by right clicking over the filename display just above the filmstrip (left side). Those lists can contain folders or collections, and save you from having to go to library mode to change folder – especially if you’re jumping between the same set of folders or collections frequently. Likewise, the right and left arrow icons will walk you around where you’ve been and save a trip to Library.

I find it more convenient to use keywords to handle the subsets. In the Library module,from the keyword list panel (the list of keywords in your catalog), all you have to do is click the little arrow on the right of the number of images with that keyword to view all images with that keyword at once.

The way I handle this issue with photoshop/lightroom and collections, is that I have a smart collection set up, and that collection automatically grabs any photo that is not in a regular collection.

It helps on 2 levels…
1) it catches the photos like you said in the photoshop/lightroom balance, and I can quickly find it, and toss it back into the correct collection.

2) when new photos are imported, they don’t go into collections automatically, so this is where I pick through the keepers, do some basic editing and then file them away in the collections for storage.

Hey, it works for me.

I’m sorry to say it, but Lightroom cannot cope if you move, organize, or rename photos and folders outside of Lightroom. You are unfortunately setting yourself up for a lot of trouble if you do that to yourself. Do all of your renaming, deleting, and moving from inside Lightroom and save yourself from a world of frustration.

You will find “synchronize” in the library module, next look at the top left of your window, you will see; file, edit, “library”. Drop down this tab and you will see synchronize. Now, after your exports into the same folder or a new folder you can click here and show your new images and edits.

You can let lightroom keep the lr-edition file together with the original. Your photocollection will take a bit more room on the hard disk, but that way you can even build up a new lr catalog if something happens to your catalog. I can not remember where you do it though, since I´ve only done it once