Organizer: Folder Name criteria in menu 'Find', 'By details'

Michel, I guess I did not understand your question, because I was able to display all of the files in a given folder without making any temporary keyword tags. I first found the pictures in a selected folder, and then with only them displayed, clicked on the desired Atar Rating in the upper right corner to only display those images with that Star Rating in the grid.

What did I miss?

The option to search by 'Folder name' in the 'Find by details' menu is wonderful, as I said, but the problem is that the 'Find by details' option is the tool to combine several criteria, for instance files in a given subfolder AND in a specific time lapse AND from a given camera model AND with a given keyword.
If you use the 'Folder name' criteria only, no problem but with combined criteria as above, your search will freeze your computer.
The workaround given by the Adobe staff to use the new advanced search button works better, my advice is to take the time to test it to find how easy and powerful it is.

Technically my suggestion is:
- to implement the sql query for that command in a better way
- or to locate that option in the global search menu where the criteria is used alone, not mixed with other ones.

Hi Michel,

My folders are named by date in the “yyyy mm dd” format. As for the pictures, I usually keep the name attributed by the camera, in the “img_n” format. I have more than 5 000 pictures. As a consequence, keywords and various search possibilities are crucial for me.

I use PSE 14 and also find that it does offer powerful and useful search possibilities, under the “Find” menu Item. Thank you for mentioning more specifically the “Folder Name” criteria in the “Find by details (metadata)” option. I was among the users who had not realized it was there.

I did experiment with it and, contrary to you, I did succeed in mixing the “Folder Name” criteria with another criteria. I chose “All the following search criteria [AND]” operator. Then I did the following:

Line 1: “Folder Name” “Starts with” “2008 07”.

Line 2: “People” “include” “Jo” (my lovely wife).

I had 12 folders from different days in July 2008 for a total of about 200 pictures. The result extracted all the pictures that were taken within that period and containing the “People” tag “Jo”.

I must admit that although I have a relatively recent computer, it took a while before the result came in (about 15 seconds). It was a lot faster (almost instantaneous) when I did the following:

Line 1: “Capture time” “is before” “2008-08-01”

Line 2: “Capture time” “is after” “2008-06-30”

Line 3: “People” “include” “Jo”