Searching for photos

Surprisingly you cannot search for photos with the iPad search feature. Does anyone now of a photo app that always searches on the file name? I am having a hard time finding one.
Or is there anyway to turn on the search feature to include photos?
TIA

Yes, unfortunately that is true… and there is no way to turn it on.
But you can always write a feedback:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
enjoy your magic machine

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Unable to search for photos in Spotlight.

Some weeks ago, I inadvertently dragged my 'Pictures' folder into the desktop, and managed to replace it, but after that, (and after temporarily renaming it 'Images') I can no longer search for photos in Spotlight.
Spotlight Preferences now recognises 'Images' and I'm unable to change it back to 'Pictures'.
Any advice or solution would be greatly appreciated.

Spotlight Preferences now recognises 'Images' and I'm unable to change it back to 'Pictures'.
As I said before there is no "photo" file type, just a bunch of other kinds (tiff, jpeg, GIF, and maybe 20 other possible extensions) that are used for photos. I don't think Spotlight uses the term "Pictures", just "images". I have a "Pictures" folder but in Spotlight I just see "Images" in the search results, and "Images" is what is uses in the preferences.
this doesn't explain why I'm unable to search for photo files using Spotlight.
Make sure that the area containing your photos is not excluded from search by the privacy feature in Spotlight's preferences.
Spotlight searches for text information. For example, I have lots of photos, but spotlight only find a single one since I don't use the word "photo" in any of my file names or folder names. The one file it finds has "Created by Adobe Photoshop" in the metadata - Spotlight is keying in on the word "photo". If I type in the word "Picture" it finds the Pictures folder, but doesn't list the contents since none of those have the word "Picture" in their names or text within the file.
What exact search term are you entering into Spotlight? Are you sure that a file exists with that term in its name, or perhaps in text included within the file?

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Is there a way to search for photo's not in an album?

Huh? Not sure at all what you are saying.
Camera Roll photos are photos that were taken with/saved from the iphone itself. Those are not part of the sync process at all. You import those as you would with any digital camera.
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A shortcut may be to first find one keyword and then use the filter panel
keyword section and select the other wished keywords by putting a checkmark
in front, only the selected files will show in the content window.
In other words I want to do an AND keyboard rather than an OR search.

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I would be concerned as well if my iPad was not recognized by iTunes. Thank you for providing all the information with the steps you took in regards to this issue. I found an article with a few more steps you can take (you can skip the steps you have already taken):
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Oh man, I've been beating my head on the desk trying to fix this. The only clue I have is that photos taken from iOS 7 (vs iOS 6) devices after about a week ago (wasn't there an OS X update recently?) don't show up in finder the same. When you dig through the "sub" folder to find the long-named folders with the photostream files in them, hit command+i and check out the "More Info:" section. The recent ones don't have anything in them (see http://d.pr/i/WKzR). Furthermore if you drill down to one of those folders containing such an image (see: http://d.pr/i/nIUP) and try to create a saved search from there it won't show up (see: http://d.pr/i/FOri).
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I want to use the Filter-Pane to find all photos with a certain keyword on my disk - and not only in a specifiy folder.
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I have an apple ipod model MB528BT version 4.2.1 (8C148) Im think its an iPod touch as opposed to the old iPod but cannot be certain. So first of all does this model number mean anything and/or can I confirm myself via the unit itself?
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Why would I want this? We go on wildflower walks and shoot hundreds of photos, perhaps dozens of species. Sometimes it's hard to know if Picture A & B, depicting very similar plants & flowers, actually show the same species. (We're still beginners at this, and some families like the penstemons and paintbrushes have lots of very similar species). So I use time as a helper. If they were shot within a couple of minutes, probably they are of the same plant.
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Right, now I see how it works for you.
Just temporarily switching the event sort to Sort By Date while you do all your initial titles is probably the simplest improvement to make in your workflow, and sounds like it would eliminate some hassle.
But I'll tell you how I would do it, just because workflows interest me and you say you are thinking about it.
Each wildflower walk is an Event. Keep your events sorted by Date/Time as you process and sort photos. Retitle as desired.
Create a smart album to actually show off and browse your wildflowers--perhaps based on Keyword is Wildflower. Easy enough to apply the Wildflower keyword to an entire event each time you download photos and un-apply it from the occasional people shots as you process. The Wildflowers smart album can be sorted by title so that you can group all the same flowers from multiple places, rate the best shots of that flower, etc.
Of course, that approach separates most browsing and rating from the initial sorting process--this helps me because I tend to bog down on the rating part, but might feel weird to others.
(I also name the Event with a precise location--eg, Crater Lake Wildflower Meadow--and then use Photos>Batch Change to put that same info into the Description. Then it's easy enough in the combined smart album to say "okay, where did I take that shot?" and check the Description. However, Places might serve that need more efficiently. Sometimes I use the overall Event Description for a sort of diary entry--"third trip to this garden, after a rainy March had the best flowers")
I never use the Title field and use Description a lot, but in this case, I'd say using Title instead of Description would be really annoying because I think you'd have to use the mouse to get to the description field every single time, instead of just being able to tab and type across photos, and you'd have to keep looking down to see if you already labeled the photo or not instead of that being right in your face. Photos>Batch Change would let you change a bunch at a time, but that's probably still slower. I tend to use Description for big general info like place and would think Title is more appropriate for very photo-specific info like flower names.
Although, using Keyword instead of Title might be an idea. With the long Latin names which I presume are a hassle to type, being able to just click or apply pre-entered names with a shortcut could be good, and iPhoto will auto-fill Keywords but I don't think it auto-fills repeated Titles? Keyword Manager is a third-party utility, I don't use it myself but Terence recommends it as excellent. If you are seeing the same flowers over and over again, keywords might make life easier, and if you frequently have variations on species--eg Poppies (California), Poppies (Opium), Poppies (I've exhausted my knowledge of flowers)---then Keyword Manager handles nested keywords and I think it would automatically let you really quickly browse ALL your poppies and then each type of poppy. Might be worth checking--there should be a free trial. A keyword approach would also eliminate the possible problem where you have multiple flowers in one sort, but Sort by Title misses the flowers that aren't first (although Title-based Smart Albums would also eliminate that problem).
One of the other things to consider there is what you intend to do with the photos, though--various forms of printing/publishing to web have varying support for automatically including the Title, etc. So if you know what you'd like to do with the pictures--slideshow? photo book?--it's worth playing around to see what the export options and integration are like before you process your backlog.
An interesting challenge! Have fun.

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Various organization schemes for photos.

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I have scanned in about 12,000 old photos into iPhoto. None of them has the correct date of the photo because the date given is the date I imported it. This does not concern me in the least. I do not mess with the internal file system of iPhoto outside the application.
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I have a film roll also labeled 1977, but sometimes I import the photos and then discover other photos from that same year that get scanned in later. They become film roll 235, but since I want them to be with the 1977 film roll, I drag them into my album first, and then drag them up to the 1977 film roll, where they are joined into it with the earlier-scanned photos.
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