How to search for an image by date

[someothername]

I have an image out on Deviant Art that I can't find either the file I uploaded, nor the original image. DA's info tells me the date created was 12 May 2''7. I know for a fact that I actually took it in November of 2''6, so DA is using the file modified date, or maybe paint shop pro modified the date created in the exif when I saved my crop. I browsed through my november work, but it doesn't seem to be there, and this particular series underwent a lot of work between november and may and I'm pretty sure it got moved. Most likely to the same place the modified version was saved at.

The problem is that the Date drop down in the library filter does not have 12 May 2''7 in it. I'm quite confident I would have imported it when I built the LR catalog as I've been very good for several years now about keeping all my originals and their derivations in the same folder tree.

Any suggestions?

 

[someothername]

Never mind, mostly. I finally figured out that I needed to set all the things in the Library filter to "All" so that it would clear choices i'd made in earlier filters. Once I'd done that, 12 May showed up and I found it. And my fact was wrong, :-(, I did in fact take that one on 12 May. It just very much resembled a shoot from the previous November, though most of the others from 12 May did not.

But I wonder if there shouldn't be a "clear filters" button available, or maybe there is and I just don't see it.

And I also wonder if there shouldn't be a bit more kinds of dates? Date taken is probably the most important date in terms of managing a photo catalog. But date the file was last modified, date the xmp was last modified, even date last looked at are all dates that I have found useful in managing my image collection when all I had was the windows explorer available.

 

[Brad Snyder]

Brandon,

On the Filter Bar at the top of grid, what happens if you click "None" ? Also, on the Filters preset drop down is a "Filters Off" selection.

On the Attribute Filter Strip on top of the filmstrip, at the far right end is an on/off switch. (Up is on, down is off, [much argument ensued about applying a US electrical standard to international software] ).

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Nice quick find Brandon!

Yeah, I'd agree, searching on more dates would be useful. Another one for the feature requests!

 

[someothername]

Brandon,

On the Filter Bar at the top of grid, what happens if you click "None" ? Also, on the Filters preset drop down is a "Filters Off" selection.

On the Attribute Filter Strip on top of the filmstrip, at the far right end is an on/off switch. (Up is on, down is off, [much argument ensued about applying a US electrical standard to international software] ).

The problem I was having was that I didn't realize there was an "all photographs" above the folders. I kept trying to click on "data (D" and set a filter, and it kept going to my last folder and filtering on it. Once I spotted "all photographs", clicking none on the top bar now showed all 44 thousand plus of my photographs.

The on/off switch in the lower right has a special relationship with the attribute filter on top. If the attribute filter is the only one being used, it turns it on and off. But if another filter, such as metadata, is being used, the button applies the attribute filter to the results of that filter. Turning it off does not turn the library filter off. Plus it turns off the custom filter, if any. But again, interacts with the library filter bar somehow. This interaction is a bit too complex and needs to be simplified somehow.

I think maybe the custom filter box ought to be only up in the library filter bar with a pop up that explains the relationship between it and any other settings you make there.

And maybe change the on/off switch to just after the word "Filter:" and maybe even take up a bit more real estate and have that say "Attr Filters [on][off]:" so that we know that switch is only to add or subtract the attribute filters to whatever other filter is going on.

What "US electrical standard"? I've never lived in a house yet where all the switches worked the same way. There always seem to be one or two where up and down are different from the others.

 

[Brad Snyder]

What "US electrical standard"? I've never lived in a house yet where all the switches worked the same way. There always seem to be one or two where up and down are different from the others.

That pretty much sums up the commentary/discussion. Having worked as a standards engineer for an electric utility for a number of years, you'd think I could answer that one. But I don't really know if there's a 'standard' or just a 'conventional' way. And of course multi-way switches at the foot/head of stairs, and opposite room doors, just confuse the issue.

 

[Denis Pagé]

Then I have one for you Brad:
Do you know why the words "ON" and "OFF" are written in english on light switches?
Hint: It is a classic french joke...

Someothername, a simple check box should be more visible and shorter than "Attr Filters [on][off]". In the end, I think this is just Adobe interface designers who opted for that slick design...

 

[someothername]

Then I have one for you Brad:
Do you know why the words "ON" and "OFF" are written in english on light switches?
Hint: It is a classic french joke...

Someothername, a simple check box should be more visible and shorter than "Attr Filters [on][off]". In the end, I think this is just Adobe interface designers who opted for that slick design...

Yes, I'd agree, a checkbox would be fine, but right after the Filters word, Attr Filters, since it is only that kind of filter.

 

[Brad Snyder]

Do you know why the words "ON" and "OFF" are written in english on light switches?
Hint: It is a classic french joke...

While I had six years of high-school French, nothing's coming to me, I'll give in, Why?

 

[Denis Pagé]

:roll: ... french people do not need to read to know if the light is on or off... :twisted:

 

[Brad Snyder]

Mais, Oui!