Realise that this has been discussed before - way back, but I would welcome some advice, if possible, beyond what I have attempted already.

 I am using PS16.1.   I have always found checkmarks useful.  Old debate, I know!   But, I also need to be able to periodically check, from the timeline, which assets I have used by right-clicking and selecting 'Find In Library'.   I am sure that I have seen this working, briefly, but despite deleting and rebuilding my library several times, and re-installing PS16.1 I now can't get this feature to work.  The view in the Compact Library jumps to completely unrelated folders with no scene highlighted.

If, however, I select a scene in the Compact Library and perform 'Find In Timeline', this works perfectly.

 Any suggestions as to what else I can try to remedy this - been deleting and rebuilding NGDatabase all day, to no avail.

What do you call a "scene" ? A subdivision of a video file or an entire video file ?

A 'scene' in my case is an entire .mts file from my camera.

 Each .mts file ranges from about 5 to 20 seconds.  I have not performed 'detect scenes' on any of them.   Every scene on the timeline is one of these .mts files.   I tend to divide and clip them on the timeline.

If I run 'Detect Scenes' on the file in the Compact Library then the function works, for that scene.   It doesn't work on any other clip.

 

Update:-   OK, behaviour is erratic, and misleading.  'Find In Library' from timeline context menu actually creates the 'All Media' tab but does not scroll to the highlighted scene (or file).   Therefore, with the massive size of my Library I need to manually scroll to find the highlighted scene, which isn't very useful. 

HenryPorter:

Update:-   OK, behaviour is erratic, and misleading.  'Find In Library' from timeline context menu actually creates the 'All Media' tab but does not scroll to the highlighted scene (or file).   Therefore, with the massive size of my Library I need to manually scroll to find the highlighted scene, which isn't very useful. 

That's a known problem which was never solved in PS16.

OK Saby,

Thanks - strange thing is I am sure that I have seen it work OK on the odd occasion. 

I don't have PS16 installed on my computer anymore, so am guessing here. What if you gave the file a specific name, is it "found"? The problems, IIRC I was having was using the camera numbered files instead of specific names for the file. Photos having the camera incremental numbering had no problem being found. It was the video clips that seem to be having issues.

Thanks for the input Tony, but not what I am seeing here unfortunately.  I have just experimented with some 'named' files and it makes no difference.  The fact that the files are named as incremental numbered .mts files from my camcorder shouldn't really make any difference.

I just added a named .jpg grabbed frame to the end of my timeline.  When I right-click on it on the timeline and select 'Find In Library' the Compact Library jumps to the beginning of my assets, miles away from where the .jpg is actually located!

Saby says this is a known bug so I will have to live with it.

In Jeff's book PS16 Revealed (which I have found extremely useful during my painful transition from PS14 to PS16), it states on pg.  47.... 

"Firstly, you may need to find the Source video in the Compact Library again - chances are it is still on display, but if it isn't use the right-click context menu on any of the clips on the timeline and select 'Find In Library'.  Whatever was displayed in the Library before will be replaced with an All Media tab, scrolled to the clip we are using and with that clip highlighted.   Neat trick, I think."

Not Jeff's fault.  It's a bug.  But I wasn't aware of this shortcoming in the software and thought I had corrupted something, hence my request for help.

I'm pretty sure that it worked when I wrote that - but it would have been based on 16.0 0r 16.01. Of course, I may have been working with a small library, so that the scrolling was minimal. I'll have to test this again, but I'm away from home at the moment.