What the counts mean
The cull page is full of small numbers: on the chips, beside the groups, over the sheet, under the people. Each one counts something exact, and most of them count the pass — what is on screen — rather than the library. This page is the key to them. You need it when a number does not match what you expected to see.
On the views line
The five state chips — All, Undecided, Takes, Holds and Rejects — each carry the number of frames you would be looking at if you clicked it, with every other narrowing still applied. With Maya up, Takes · 12 is Maya's takes, not the library's. While no rating, Favourites or label is chosen, the four after All add up to it; with one chosen, All leaves rejects out — a rejected frame is under no mark — so Undecided, Takes and Holds add up to it instead, and Rejects counts the frames in the bin that wear the mark. While a proposal pass is open, Takes and Holds show no number and cannot be chosen, because a decided frame carries no proposal.
The ★ and ● menus count the same way: each row says how many frames would be on screen if you chose it in place of whatever mark is chosen now, with the state, the chips and any proposal pass still applied. With ★★★★☆ chosen, the ★★★★★ row counts the five-star frames you would see by switching to it. A chip already on the line has no count of its own; its count is the pass.
On the pass line
1 of 24 is where you are in the pass and how long it is. At the end the line adds the last of 24 frames, or last of Evening · 3 more when the frame is the last under a group heading and the pass goes on. A pass of one frame reads 1 of 1 with nothing after it, and an empty pass reads 0 frames. While Rejects is on and the bin holds something, the bin's own count stands here too — 180 frames · 1.2 GB — with the size shown only when Vixlo has measured it off the files.
Over the Frames sheet
The sheet's header starts with a count line in orange, set in capitals: STABLE QUEUE · 24 OF 451 FRAMES · 3 SESSIONS · 9 STACKS. The frames are the pass; the library's total is named only when the pass is smaller than it, so a narrowing is never mistaken for a smaller library. The sessions and stacks are those in the pass, and each is left out rather than printed as a zero. The frames are always printed, so an empty pass reads 0 OF 451 FRAMES.
Every group heading counts what is under it — 8 frames · 2 takes — and so does each sub-heading when a second level is on.
In the Groups pane
All frames reads the pass: 451 frames · 6 sessions, and at the right the ratio of takes to frames in the pass, 12/451, with a bar that says the same thing at a glance. Each row of the tree carries the same pair for its own group — 2/8 — and its own bar: grey while nothing is taken, amber part-way, green when every frame is. Hover a row's ratio to read it in words: 2 takes of 8 frames.
Under PEOPLE, the number beneath an unnamed circle is how many frames that person is in; hover a circle for the same count with the name. A place's or a journey's number is its frames. All of these leave out rejected frames. A saved search's number is what it matches right now, recomputed as you decide.
In Organise and filter
18 of 66 frames pass these filters is the pass over the library. 12 stacks · 31 frames is what the Similar photos setting gathers; 45 min · 6 sessions is how the session gap cuts the pass: with a person or a state up, it counts that pass's sessions, not the library's. Each of these follows its slider as you move it.
On a session card
2 of 2 takes counts the session's takes against the target you set: green when the target is met, amber when it is not. A proposal is never counted as a take.
What a count is not
The numbers on the views line and the pass line are counts of frames, not of cells: a stack of five is five in them, however it is drawn. And no count anywhere is a decision — a number says what is there, and the keys say what stays.