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Somehow I've got a filter that limits my search to one particular project, so I'm not searching the whole database anymore. Any ideas on how to remove that one filter? Besides updating to Aperture 3 that is?
Projects remember the last filter you applied. If you click the project, you'll see it with the last filter you used.
If you click the little x in the far right of the filter search field, it should reset to the default of 'Unrated or Better' filter.
After that it should now remeber this as the last filter used.
Andy
That got rid of the filter, but a search for flower still comes up with nothing, altho I've got a ton of flower-tagged images. Same thing for other search terms I know I have plenty of but I get no response from the search.
jan
The search is resticted to what you have selected in the inspector. So if you select a project, the search will only apply to that project.
To search your entire library, click the 'Photos' link under the Library section of the inspector. This shows all photos, and then anything you type in the Search box will search all images.
Andy
Sorry, still no search results.
Just so you know, I never seem to have the typical user error, my issues run much weirder :-)
jan
Can you visually locate one of your flower-tagged images and selector. Choose the 'Info' tab on the inspector and there choose to display 'General'.
What do you see in the Keywords: field?
Andy
when I search for flowers, plural, which I have quite a few of, I see it in the keywords of the 3 images I checked, but no images show in the search for flowers. Similarly, when I search for kitchen, there are no kitchen images, but it is a very common keyword.
janburg wrote:
when I search for flowers, plural, which I have quite a few of, I see it in the keywords of the 3 images I checked,
That's good, it sounds like search is working.
janburg wrote:
but no images show in the search for flowers. Similarly, when I search for kitchen, there are no kitchen images, but it is a very common keyword.
That's contradictory, I assume you meant flower (singular) ;-)
What I was asking was for you to locate an image of a single flower, that you believe has the keyword flower but which is failing to be recognised by the search for flower. By definition you can not use search for this because the problem we are trying to solve is where 'search is not working'.
So you need to scroll through your photos until you see an image of a flower (for example, or kitchen if it's more common) that has a keyword, I'd then like you to check what the keyword field is showing in the info panel.
Regards,
Andy
Ok, regardless of what keyword I see in the metadata of an image, when I do a search for that same keyword i see no images pop up. No matter whether it is flower, flowers, kitchen, all of which are keywords seen in the metadata of the image, no images at all ever show up in the search field.
Search used to work for me until a few months ago, but at that time i was too busy to deal with it. Now that I have some time, I need to know if this is an issue that can be fixed, if I need to upgrade to Aperture3 to get it to work, or if I just need to buy a different program. I've been using Aperture since version 1, so I'm not a total newby. It's the database where I find my thousands of digital images from the last 10 years, and if the search function does not work, it means looking up an image is back to the old search by time function, meaning I remember I did that shot about x years ago, and you know how fun that sort of search can be. If I have to upgrade to v3, will the search work on the old library of v2? I'd much rather be assured that search is working in v2 before I upgrade.
Thanks for your patience, but like I said, my problems usually are beyond the norm.
It sounds as if the keywords are in another metadata field than where the app is searching, I have that when some photos are coming from another application than I use.
I have to set the keyword in the right field then "write metadata to photo" when using my application, or I use the Better Finder Attributes tool.
Nothing has changed in where the metadata is compared to the last time search worked, the photos are all stored on dvds or cds, and the metadata is imported and added to in Aperture.
To clarify, here's a couple of screen grabs of the situation, one showing the search with no results, and the other with the metadata showing flowers as the metadata keyword.
http://jsphotofx.com/Aperture-search.png and http://jsphotofx.com/Aperture-metadata.png
So how do I get Aperture search to work again. I just reloaded the program from the disk, no change. I've rebuilt the database, no change. What am I missing here? I don't want to have to redo 10 years of database building!
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