Ios18 on MacBook Pro - photos search problem since updating to Sequoia - no longer able to search on file name (or part of) … is this right?

As per the title line, when I try to search for a particular photo by referring to the file name (or part of it, I get no results. When looking in the latest photos help, file name name is no longer there as a search criteria.

Is this right? If so, will it be fixed? For me this was a useful search feature.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 15.0

Posted on Oct 21, 2024 9:19 AM

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Oct 22, 2024 4:03 AM in response to marie@milton keynes

I saw that someone said this was just a problem with it taking a long time for the tables etc to be re-built after upgrade. so I left the Mac on overnight (and plugged in) and sun enough, this morning the search function is working. I have around 11000 photos and 2000 videos - I guess how long it takes for everything to work properly depends on how big your library is. Phew - glad that’s sorted.

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