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April 8, 2011

P: Contains Words Bug (Big Mallard Ducks)

  • April 8, 2011
  • 19 replies
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'Contains Words' has a data sensitive bug that causes it to behave seemingly flaky.

Details are findable on the forum if the forum search ever gets fixed. I remember it by the keyword: "Big Mallard Ducks". Try searching for a photo with this keyword using 'Contains Words' and the various contained words and you'll see the problem - somebody already identified detailed cause - see somewhere on the Photoshop Lightroom forum.

I never use keywords with spaces anymore, so this bug means nothing to me personally.

This one falls in the category of "should be fixed next rev" in my opinion - it has persisted for a long time now.

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    19 replies

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    April 26, 2015
    Excellent! (Better late than never...)
    J
    J453
    Legend
    April 21, 2015
    This should be fixed in Lightroom CC/Lightroom 6.
    areohbee
    areohbeeAuthor
    Legend
    December 8, 2013
    Not fixed @10908910.3RC (and 2-space work-around still doesn't work around it anymore).
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    Babar_e
    Known Participant
    April 18, 2013
    I have been bugged by this bug for years now, and I do not see why I should add 2 space, that is a workaround but not a solution.
    Please fix it
    thanks
    areohbee
    areohbeeAuthor
    Legend
    April 18, 2013
    Not fixed @Lr5b.
    (is this really so hard to fix?)

    You've heard the phrase "JDI" (just do it). Well, I'd like to coin a new phrase JFA (just fix already).

    As it stands, I just tell people "Contains Words" is buggy - don't use it (or at least: you can't trust it), to avoid having to explain the "Big Mallard Ducks" affliction. I'd rather not have to go through that.

    It's no problem for me, since I know how to get around it, but not everybody is aware of the bug, or knows how to work around: for them - Lr just seems flaky...
    areohbee
    areohbeeAuthor
    Legend
    October 4, 2012
    @LR4.2, this work-around no longer works-around - so, a step backwards... Thank goodness for plugins like SpaceUrchin and AnyFilter.
    areohbee
    areohbeeAuthor
    Legend
    October 4, 2012
    Not fixed @LR4.2, and the double-space work-around no longer works around it.
    areohbee
    areohbeeAuthor
    Legend
    April 23, 2012
    Wow. Thank you Miroslaw.

    Although I wish Adobe would just fix this already (more for their sake than mine), this is a good workaround for now.

    I've been using:
    * SpaceUrchin
    * AnyFilter

    which work around it, and also extend Lightroom's search and filter capability.
    M
    mlawczys
    Participating Frequently
    April 23, 2012
    Keywords which consists of several words do not work properly when a word starts with the same character as a previous word ends. For example - if you tag a photo with a keyword: "South March Highlands" you will not be able to get search results with "highlands" word (using text search on keywords with keywords "contains words"). No hits. Simply because "Highlands" start with the same character as a previous word "March" ends. This is always true no matter how many words you have in a keyword. I tried different words and different letter combination - always the same result. The workaround is to use two spaces between words in a tag when you have one word ending with some character and the next word begining with the same character. For example if my tag is now: "South March Highlands" (two spaces between Macrh and Highlands, my searches on keyword "Highlands" give expected results.

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    mlawczys
    Participating Frequently
    April 23, 2012
    You can work arothis bug by adding two spaces between offending words. "Mallard duck" will not work but "Mallard duck" (two spaces between mallard and duck will.
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