The collection tree

The collection tree lists folders, albums and saved searches from your sources in Browse’s sidebar.

Select All Photographs to browse everything. Select a folder to include its entire subtree. Album rows show photograph counts; folder rows omit them to avoid counting photographs in several albums more than once.

Click a folder’s chevron to expand it, or its row to select it. The filter at the top searches collection names, retaining parent folders above matches and each folder’s expanded state.

Sidebar visibility. Resize the sidebar by its edge. Use ⌥⌘S or the first button in the status bar’s right-hand group to hide or show it. Frames remembers visibility, scroll position, open folders and filter text.

Photograph filters. The control band has RAW only, Edited, Kept, Monochrome and minimum-rating filters. Kept shows only photographs marked Keep. Edited and Monochrome use the selected treatment. The rating filter remembers its threshold when disabled. Browse filters persist across mode changes.

Order. Right-click COLLECTION and choose Library Order (the default Photos order) or Name. Name lists folders before albums and uses Finder-style ordering, such as 01 - Madrid, 04 - Berlin, 10 - Madrid. The setting is remembered.

Hidden rows. Right-click a collection and choose Hide in Frames to hide it and its subtree. An eye appears beside COLLECTION. Click it to reveal hidden rows dimmed. Searching for a hidden collection also reveals it dimmed. Hidden choices persist across windows and sessions.

Ordering and hiding affect only Frames. Hidden collections retain their photographs and can still be browsed when revealed.

Saved searches. SMART appears below the tree when a saved search exists. Each row has a live count. Saved searches belong to Frames and are not sent to Photos.

Organising. Collection menus can also create, rename, move and delete Photos albums and folders. These operations change Photos and can sync to other devices. See Organising the library.

See Saved searches, Organising the library, Searching photographs, The Explore drawer.