Filtering Images in the Catalog

Hello,
I am wondering how I might tell Lightroom to find all images that have a star rating in a specific folder and show them to me. I have used the "Rating" drop down menu but this only works if there are images that I have NOT edited in Photoshop (right click "edit in") upon being re-imported these images (TIFF) stay next to the original even if I set the rating to 0. I need to filter those out somehow.
TIA,
A

Using either of the Filter bars for Attribute (there is one at the top and one at the bottom, above the filmstrip) be sure to set the Equals sign for the star rating you want to filter. Often it is set to "Greater than or Equal to" which of course will include any star rating above the one you select. In your case it is probably set to "less than or equal to" which is why you still see the 0 star rated images.
Another option if this is a common use for you is to setup a smart collection with the same parameters.

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