Enhanment Idea: Search photo by folder name

Hi,
I would like to search photos in LR as I would do in Explorer.
I don't use tags, but I give folder names meaningfull names.
So for example if I have
Mark in Boston
Peter in New York
Mark in Rome
I would like to do a search like
1)
Find of pictures that whose's folders contains "*Mark*"
and this will pick "Mark in Boston" and "Mark in Rome"
2)
Find "Mark" or "Peter"
and he will give me pictures from all the threee directory.
It could be good if we could also actually filter the directory trees based on some parameters.

Geoff the kiwi wrote:
Feature request go here: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/
So what's this forum, Geoff? http://forums.adobe.com/community/lightroom/lightroom_feature_requests?view=all
I noticed that its latest posts are rather elderly, but it's the site linked to in the right hand column of this forum.

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If I cannot search on folder names, can Aperture import folder names into Metadata automatically. In other words, if I import a directory tree 2009Games, with subfolders Game-ABC, Game-DEF, etc.
Can Aperture insert the subfolder name into the photo's metadata? I know I can add the text manually, but I would like Aperture to import a top level folder like 2009Games, and add the subfolder directory name to each photo's metadata.
If that is not an option, how does someone migrate from folder organization to metadata searches without renaming every photo?

What project and folder naming structure do you intend to use in Aperture to manage your collection?
The inclusion of the file name in metadata for searching purposes seems to be redundant as you can always, if you really need to, see where a particular image is located on the hard disk by right clicking on it in Aperture and selecting "Show in Finder".
Regards,
Calx

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I do have several levels of nested email folders and several hundred folders created over the years. So I was hoping to be able to search for a folder's name, and be taken to it to see it and all of its contents.
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It appears that when I create a filter searching specific text, the text values of the underlying folders that the images are in are not being considered. For instance if my folder structure was YYYY\Event\Eventsub1\Eventsub2 and I wanted to search for all images that involved Eventsub1 or Event over multiple years, it doesn't seem to consider the folder name as searchable for the filter function.
Because I had a prior structure before moving over to LR (starting with beta) I have been reluctant to eliminate the structure altogether and rely solely on keywords as it is also easy to find images when outside of LR in this familiar structure. This has led to including a "theme" keyword with each image that pretty much is the Eventsub2 subfolder, then create a keyword structure equal to Event\Eventsub1 and drag the new keyword under that structure for organization. This seems to be duplicative, and error prone.
So ... my question, is anyone else able to search for images in folders with names that include text "xxxxxx"?
Thank.

It seems to have worked for me. I went to All Photographs and entered the name of a folder. For me it's kind of difficult because I often have other tags the same as the folder names, but I think my test was correct.
You might want to consider using other metadata fields besides just keywords. I use the field Job Identifier to identify pictures taken on trips or other identifiable groups of pictures (an example might be France 2009). It is usually the same as my folder structure (or a superset thereof, actually, because I usually have subdirectories by date) but I thought this gives me two ways to find things and if pictures get out of their file structure they still have that identifying information in the metadata. More commonly used tags are title and caption. Different people use one or the other for their primary "caption", depending probably on the other tools they use and their flexibility, or lack thereof, but that leaves the second one for something else. Also, there are a set of location fields which I usually fill in. City, State, Country are obvious, but the other one, called simply Location, can be more general. I let the GPS program fill it in but I often change it to something else. For example, Somethingorother State Park.
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An app to search photos by file name in ipad..

Hello Everyone,
Hi this is romit. I am looking for an application in which one can search all images in ipad by its name.
For instance: in Mac we have spotlight to find an app by its name, no matter whats the location or type of app it is. provided the name and there you go.
In windows OS we search box to find anything by its name. So I am looking for an app in Ipad which will give me result of provided photo with that file name.
If ANYONE KNOWS SUCH AN APP PLEASE REVERT TO THIS. IT WILL BE OF GREAT HELP.HNAK
Thanks apple,
people,
& the almighty
Cheerios...!

Photos on an iPad do not have meaningful file names. If you synced Photos through iTunes their file names are turned into number sequences (ie img_95040.jpg). There is nothing to search for that would be of any relevance, hence no to application really do this that I know of.

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You can install this add-on t0 add a column to the Library window ( Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks ) to indicate which Folders your search items are located:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7372
Once installed, in the Library window, click Views > Show Columns then click Parent Folder to show that column in the search results area.

Search photos by name

I have iPhoto 11 and it is getting me very frustrated
It has just created a new batch of photos when exporting a flagged selection to a folder. All the new photos have - Version 2 appended to the name.
There are about 240 new photos and I want to select jsut these new ones to delete..why the **** it created them in the first place is a mystery and a pain, but it seems to create duplicates al the time. liek when ediditn in an external editor too
So I want to search for all these new photos, do a CMD A to select them all and delete them
But I cant find a way to search just by name.
if you type in Version 2 in the seach box, it brings up lots more photos than those with just this name
If you click the disclosure triangle you can select to search by different criteria, but not by Name
The search results with All selected and Version 2 in the search window brings up over 9000 photos..most that do not even have even the number 2 in the name or keyword or anything 'Version 2 " does not appear anywhere I can see with relation to the photos it finds yet iPhot seems to bring them up
What the **** is going on here. Everything jsut takes soo long in iPhoto and you seem to have no control over what it does half the time
I have tried selecting different gropuings before the search, such as Photos/Events /Flagged etc but still can not get it to pull out just the photos with the name Version 2 appended to them.
Have treid entering with various operators or enclosed in brackets and quotes etc, but have drawn a blank
Any hints on where I am going wrong

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Search by folder name? Monitor folders for changes?

Im a long time PC user that LOVED how Picasa automatically indexed any locations that I told it to keep track of. I just got Aperture - but so far I am utterly disappointed in the search function.
When I used to import all of my photos the folder that each import would go under would be the events title.
For instance if I shot a wedding I would name the folder "John Smith" because in picasa I could just search for "Smith" and it would have all of the files in that folder as results - regardless of their metadata.
So here I am with a 2 week old Macbook that I love - but I cant find any of the photos that I want to find.
My library has roughly 40K images - so without the ability to search by folder names it takes me forever to find the files I am looking for.
*Surely I am an idiot and just dont know how to search by folder name - can someone enlighten me?*
Also - is it possible for Aperture to monitor certain folders for changes - for instance if I save something to my library folder from photoshop - do I then have to import that one file I just saved? Picasa would just display it under the folder its in - is there any programs for Macs that behave like this?

aperture can indeed search on the project title. a little harder to find in the filter dialog, but it is there.
but again, you'll have to import your data differently than i think you did the first time.
i'm sorry that you're not happy with Aperture doing what you want, but then again, you're upset because it doesn't work with you're old folder structure. Not every application can be expected to be designed for every possible methodology that someone used to manage their existing data. It was set up to be used more visually than your old method and if you can't take the time to organize your photos when you import them to Aperture, then you're right, it probably isn't for you.
i would suggest you watch the tutorial on searching to see all of the additional metadata you can search by, maybe it would help in some way.... but if not, good luck with LR

Changed folder name...photos are gone?? Cannot find them on HD anymore..?

I did not realize that the folder numbers in IPhoto were based on exact date to which they were taken. I renamed a folder and could no longer view the photos with IPhoto. I called Apple..they didn't really know what to do (great investment that was) and now I have completely lost all of my pictures by moving my IPhoto library and then deleating one of them because I then had two in different places on my computer. I cannot find any of the original photos at all now - even searching for every .jpg on my HD with spotlight. Is there anyway I can retrieve these pictures or am I going to have to upload all of them again from different CDs and edit all of them again??? Any kind of answer to this would be greatly appreciated as calling Apple has definitely not solved this problem. Thanks.
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renaud,
that is unfortunate, but I will leave you with info to help start again...
The first bit of info is help on importing images from folders on your hard drive in an organized way.
Importing Images from the hard drive, CD, or DVD
To import a folder with subfolders of images maintaining the same organizational structure (or close to it):
Drag the folder into iPhotos viewing area.
A film roll will be created with each sub folders name. To view the rolls in the Library you need to first go to the menu bar and choose View>by film rolls.
To make each roll into an Album, highlight the tile of the roll
Go to File>new album from selection.
You will now have an Album in the source column with the images from that roll. Do this for each roll if you want them to be an Album. This is your choice.
Next, go to the menu bar and hit File>new folder
Name this new folder with the year or whatever the name was of the Parent folder containing the subfolders that you had dragged into iPhotos viewing area.
Next drag all the Albums into the respective new Parent folder you just made.
Albums- collection of images from one roll or many rolls. The Albums will be listed in your source column when you make them. The albums only contain placeholders for the images that are still in the library. They are not duplicates.
Rolls- rolls are created when you import folder of images. It will be given the name of the folder you are importing.
Rolls are also created from each import from your camera. You are given the option to name the roll at import.
Folder-a folder you create manually using the File>new folder command
Folders can hold Albums, slideshows, books, another folder, etc.
One other way you can import a folder of images and have an Album created for it as the same time it is imported as a roll in the Library view:
Drag each folder of images into the source column of iPhoto. When you see the plus sign, drop it in the source column.
An album will be created in the source column, and the roll that the album was created from will be in the library view window.
The next info is just good things to know....
--First thing to know and remember is this...Do not drag any images, folder of images into the iPhoto Library in the Finder. Images have to be imported into iPhoto within the application. Do not scan images and save them into the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder. Save them to another location such as the Pictures folder or even the desktop. You can then import them into iPhoto.
If you have already put files/folders in the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder then you will also find out that if you try to import them into iPhoto you will get an error message. No worry, just drag them to the desktop and import from there.
--All images that you import are shown in the library view. You can choose how you want to view, by rolls, by date, by rating, etc. When you put images in an Album, slideshow, book, etc, you are actually just putting pointers to those images in the library. You are not adding more images. If you delete an image from the Album it will still be in the library. If you delete an image from the library it is deleted from iPhoto's database and your hard drive (unless you have it backed up somewhere else)
--You have a folder of images on your hard drive and want to import them into iPhoto. Drag the folder of images into an open iPhoto Library window and the folder of photos will be copied into the library, resulting in a new roll with the name of the folder. You now have two copies of those photos, the ones in iPhoto's database and the ones on your desktop. You can keep the ones on your desktop that you just imported as backup or you can delete that folder.
-- you scan a picture/pictures and save it in a folder. You cannot scan directly into iPhoto or the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder.
You want all your photos in iPhoto so you import them into iPhoto.
Now you have two copies of that picture/pictures, so you can delete the originals that were in the scanned folder and keep the one/ones that were imported into iPhoto.
-- You download pictures from your camera into iPhoto.
There is now one copy of each of the pictures. (DO NOT HAVE IPHOTO DELETE THE IMAGES FROM YOUR CAMERA! DELETE THEM MANUALLY WITH THE CAMERA-if something goes wrong with the import and they are never imported and then they are deleted from the camera you might end up losing those images)
You want to change something about a picture you imported, such as
cropping it or changing the size, or changing the orientation.
Once you do that to a picture, you now have two copies of the picture
in iPhoto, the original and the edited one. The edited one will be in the library organize view. The original is packed away in an Original folder in your iPhoto Library folder under the date of the roll. You can always revert to the original by control clicking on the photo and choose "revert to orginal" You will not have this choice if you used iPhoto Diet to get rid of the Originals.
(a quick note on cropping within iPhoto...when you are in edit mode, you automatically will be in the crop mode with cross hairs to highlight the crop area. To finish cropping you must click the crop button and then go back to library view and your cropped picture will be there.
3.You want to use Photoshop or another graphic program to edit a picture in your iPhoto library.
You can open up prefs for iPhoto and choose "when double clicking on
photo ..do" choose "other" and select Photoshop. Now you can edit all
pictures in your iPhoto library in PhotoShop by double clicking. If you save the photo with the same name and as a flattened file it will be saved right into iPhoto and you will see the changes. If you don't want to save it into iPhoto then do a "save as" and save to the desktop. You will then have the original photo still in iPhoto and your new edited photo on the desktop.
Or, with iPhoto open, you can drag a picture from the library window
to your desktop (you see a + sign on the pic you are dragging). You now
have two of the same picture, one in the iPhoto library and one on your desktop. You can open up the one on your desktop in any graphic program and work on it. The one in iPhoto stays the same. You can also share/export the picture/pictures to your desktop or folder to work on them or do batch processing, etc. You will still have the originals in your iPhoto Library.
Or, you can open up the ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/folders and option drag any
picture out of the folder to your desktop. Notice that you will see a plus sign while dragging the photo. This is copying the file to your desktop
I would advise anyone not to do this as they might forget to use the option key and drag the photo out. Next time you open iPhoto the photo will be missing.
Two Apple kbs for you to read
Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto library folder
About the iPhoto Library folder
Don't forget that in Library view you can Control click on any picture and get a contextual menu with many options. One is to revert to original.
Good luck!
Lori

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Clendenen02 wrote:
2) It would be equally helpful if there was something that would take the name of the picture file and spotlight comment, copy and paste it to a movie file's comments with the same name but obviously has different extention. For an example
In a Pictures folder
Name: Dark Knight, The.jpeg       Comment: (2008) Genre: Action...             <- copy comment
In a Movie Folder
Name: Dark Knight, The.m4v       Comment:                                               <- paste
and do this for all 700 files
This Bash script will do it.
Edit "PicDir" and "MovDir" to the location of your Folders
(Note: The comment is written to the m4v file using xattr, so the Spotlight comment field appears blank in Finder, but the comment metadata is still indexed by Spotlight (If you add a Spotlight comment from Finder, it is stored both as an extended attribute and in a .DS_Store file)
#!/bin/bash
PicDir=$HOME/Desktop/Pictures
MovDir=$HOME/Desktop/Movies
for f in $PicDir/*
do
     if [ ! -d "$f" -a "${f##*.}" == "jpeg" ]; then
          comment=$(mdls -raw -name kMDItemFinderComment "$f")
          if [[ $comment != "(null)" ]]; then
               picname=${f##*/}
               movname=${picname%.*}.m4v
               if [ -e "$MovDir"/$movname ]; then
                     xattr -w com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment "\"$comment\"" "$MovDir"/$movname
               fi
          fi
     fi
done

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Leave feedback for Apple here
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

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tell Apple
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Dear Zenos,
Thank you ever so much. That was exactly what I'd wished for and need. I have installed it on all five of my computers.
I have been working on electronics and computers component level and programming since I was a Ham radio operator at age 14. This is one of the few times I've ever asked for an answer to a question and had it so fully satisfied by someone else rather than having to muddle my way through to a solution on my own.
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