Searching for Special Characters

Photos seems to be treating the underscore character as a catch all for any character, so we cannot search for it in a smart album.

You will have to exclude all Characters, that you do not want to precede the "2.jpg"

Like this:

and so on 😢

However, it really is strange that characters typically generated as filenames can't be searched for.

It is confusing and annoying.

Consider to send feedback to Apple; it looks like a bug. we should be able to search for "_", and having wild cards for the search, for example regular expressions, would be a great improvement.

The feedback form is here: Feedback - Photos - Apple

But wants to find only the images with filenames ending in "_1.jpg", excluding the filename ending in " 1.jpg", "-1.jpg", "01.jpg", etc.

Your screenshot is showing 2850 matches, I suspect many of the matches included filenames ending in" 1.jpg", "-1.jpg", "01.jpg" or similar. The problem is to ensure that the second but lastt character in the filename will be "_", but I could not find a way to escape the "_", like it is possible in shell commands, for example with a "\".

The "*" wildcard is partly there. We can search for "starts with" and "ends with". But when I need regular expressions and wildcards to search for files, I use the Terminal. And then use PowerPhotos to reveal the files I found in Photos.

Try entering "2.jpg" into Search:

& use the Return key to show only the filtered images, or click onto the area highlighted in red:

When I use the "Search" box (top-right) "1.jpg" in a library gives:

& "2.jpg" gives:

& "3.jpg" gives:

I do understand, but I have only found files ending "_1.JPG" & "_1.jpg"

Nb. I try maintain a strict file naming policy.

& the same for "_2.JPG"