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Lightroom: Exact text match in smart collections and filters, including matching spaces
Is there really no way to search metadata for a term that has spaces in it? e.g. "brown hair".
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robgendreau
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5 years ago
I can't believe that in 2016 this is still an issue. I have to at times use other applications just to do what Lr should do itself.
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damon_crane
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5 years ago
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neil_tonge
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5 years ago
Let's get this more widely known and hopefully it should push up their priority list a bit further!
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rob_cole_2221866
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5 years ago
Presently there is no way to search for "brown hair" without matching everything that has "brown" or "hair" in it. - is there?
This seems like a glaring shortcoming - am I missing something?
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anders_sorensen_6378269
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5 years ago
A feature I would like to see in Lightroom is the ability to search for exact phrases. For example be able to use something like quotation marks to search for "Red Rock Canyon" in the key words and only get results that have the words Red, Rock and Canyon next to each other and not results like "Red cars climb rocks in Bob's Canyon" which is possible with the current search tool.
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Samoreen
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5 years ago
Hi,
Keyword1 = St. Peters
Keyword2 = St. Paul and Peters
There is no way to filter on "St. Peters" in LR, without having to specify "does not contain Paul", which is not a practical solution.
Keyword1 = John
Keyword2 = John Kennedy
These are 2 different keywords. There is no way to filter on John in LR, without having to specify "does not contain Kennedy", although John is a different keyword than John Kennedy ("Separate keywords using commas" set in the Preferences - Spaces are allowed in keywords).
Normally, filtering with Keywords / End with / John should be enough to isolate images with the "John" keyword and exclude those with "John Kennedy".
Problem reported the first time 5 years ago, still not fixed in version 6.4. Any developer should be able to fix this in minutes.
Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: Lightroom: Filter Keywords in the Keyword List panel does not match imbedded spa....
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neil_tonge
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damon_crane
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Samoreen
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5 years ago
For those who don't know what a regular expression is, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression .
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Patrick
www.ppphoto.fr
Hamburg ist der wahre Grund warum
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damon_crane
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anders_sorensen_6378269
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neil_tonge
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damon_crane
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james_harvey_7953820
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anders_sorensen_6378269
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