Search for dates within an album

[del.hand]

Lightroom Version

6.1

Operating System

1. Windows 11

Hi,
I've sorted lots of old photos into "Year" folders. This is old stuff with no exif date.
I've also got my general folders / albums for years / months - for convenience rather than just relying on the date search.
The hiccup is that I have some photos with duff dates - either as above or where the dates have been screwed up at some point.

What would be useful would be for me to look in a folder, then search by date to find the rogue date photos.
Eg, I went to say France on holiday in 2000 but some of the photos from that trip say 2003 etc.

A bit like if I go into say that France Holiday example, I could then type "lens:" and it would give me a list of lenses.
I'm thinking that but where I type in "Year:" and it gives me the list of possible options. Up pops 2003 and BINGO - there are my rogue photos

One I've done that, I'd never need to have dated albums and I'm in the pure Lightroom Cloudy methodology
Thanks.

 

[tspear]

I am confused. Are you discussing folders in Classic or Cloudy?
Based on the description, I assume you are still in Classic but looking to switch. If that is the case, I suggest staying in Classic to clean up first. Or use an add-on like I did to load in folder data as meta-data before converting to Cloudy. The reality, the tools in Cloudy just are not as advanced (or even existing) to do large clean up efforts.
Cloudy seems more focused on helping the social media crowd keep up to date than with cleaning up everything you had before.

Tim

 

[del.hand]

Hi Tim, thanks for replying.
Apologies if I’m in mixing classic / cloudy - folder vs album terminology but I am in cloudy.
Eg, I have folders for years then each month / event has an album which actually contains the photos.

I prefer cloudy for the mobile workflow - my edits are pretty minimal so 95% of the time cloudy is sufficient - but that last 5%….?

 

[tspear]

If in cloudy, you will need to put in a feature request at Adobe. If you click the link above, you can ind the feedback forums from Adobe, and search there for date search in Cloudy and "upvote" it. Adobe actually does pay attention to requested items; I just wish they would follow my priority list!

Otherwise, you the best work around is to use LrM (I have Android, I believe this also works in Apple); select the album. Then clock the drop down "..." and adjust the display settings to segment by year or other metrics. This is likely not a 100% to solve all your use cases, but likely will handle most of them.

Tim

 

[del.hand]

Thanks Tim.
I’ll go onto the Adobe site as suggested - though I can’t see a link?

Re the LrM idea, that does work. As you say, not quite - you can only do it at album level and you also don’t appear to be able to change the date within LrM?

 

[tspear]

Thanks Tim.
I’ll go onto the Adobe site as suggested - though I can’t see a link?

Re the LrM idea, that does work. As you say, not quite - you can only do it at album level and you also don’t appear to be able to change the date within LrM?

Never tried to edit EXIF data in LrM and my wife has my phone at the moment.
Try this link: https://community.adobe.com/t5/foru...&location=category:ct-lightroom&q=date search

If it does not work, in the menu above look for the bug/feature request link.

Tim

 

[del.hand]

I’ve just looked on the forums you linked and found a way round this.
If you got to the album and start typing a year, it’ll start giving you options.
For example, I go into my album with old stuff in and type into the search bar 1…9…. then it drops down and offers me a list of albums that gave 19 somewhere in the album name but then year’s beginning with 19 underneath that.
Oddly, if you click on one of the years it offers, it just ignores it and loads up more search options - but if you finish typing the year - given the years it offers then it works.

So successful - though slightly odd operation.

Thanks Tim.

 

[prbimages]

Hmmm, I'm not sure that it is working as you think. I have no particular insight into how Lightroom works internally, but my guess is that if you type "2021" then it is searching for the text string "2021" somewhere in a list of searchable fields ... and I suspect, in my case anyway, that it finds it in photos which contain the copyright string "© 2021 prbimages". Of course, that gives you what you want if you are interested in photos taken in 2021, and if you have set the copyright string properly everywhere. But it's not really a date search.

 

[del.hand]

Hi Peter, in my case, I was picking up photos that have a wrong date in the exif(?) data.
So, I go to my folder in cloudy and then start typing 19 ad it gives the attached results....

 

[del.hand]

Hi Peter, in my case, I was picking up photos that have a wrong date in the exif(?) data.
So, I go to my folder in cloudy and then start typing 19 ad it gives the attached results....

(I say edit the exif data for date - not sure whether that's exif data or a different date - either way, I mean the date you can edit in LR.)