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Searching for entry in history?

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DavidKosiur216

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Is there a way to search the history section of all my images for a particular entry? I'm thinking of looking for all the images that I've printed at one time or another.
 
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No, that is not possible. Maybe there exists a plugin that can do this, but I would not know one.
 
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Sadly no, and plugins can't access the history. Your example of finding printed photos is exactly the reason I'd like this to be searchable, but sadly Adobe have put more effort into allowing users to clear history data than allow us to use it.
 
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Apparently the AnyFilter Plugin by John Ellis has a Printed Date/Time Search or Filter that searches History as of Version 1.54 released 12/27/2022. I haven't tried it as I have no need for this.

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As Bob mentioned, the Any FIlter plugin has a number of criteria for searching the history, e.g.

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Technical details: For years, Lightroom needlessly placed an operating-system lock on the catalog’s .lrcat file while it was running, preventing plugins from accessing the catalog database. At some point prior to Lightroom 8.4.1, Adobe silently stopped doing that. But I just found out recently! Any Filter uses a safe method for accessing the catalog read-only, not interfering with LR's access.
 
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