Removing Smart Groups

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Might not be a bug but me in the early morning before enough coffee.

When I create a Global Smart Group (not in a data base) to remove it, there is a “Remove” option available on the right mouse click. That suggests to me that the Smart Group is indeed removed.

When I create a Smart Group inside a specific database, there is no “Remove” option, only move to Trash … the latter sounds risky as I don’t know if it’s the Smart Group definition that goes into Trash or if the items found by the Smart Group go to Trash.

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Since a smart group does not contain any items, there’s nothing to be moved to the trash except the definition of the smart group, I’d say.
Like with a saved search in Finder.

Try creating a smart group that selects a sticker document. Move the SG to the trash…

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Smart group items in databases work like any other item in databases and therefore can be moved to the trash. Only the smart group is trashed, not the results.

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Yea, i get that. But the dichotomy of no “Remove” menu was troubling…

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