P: Smart collection Folder start with doesn't work anymore

lightroom classic 8.4 smart collection not working for "starts with" nor "ends with". Seems this has been known about for over two years and no one can figure out how to fix it?!

Another workaround is to use the Any Filter plugin, but that's not nearly as convenient as a smart colleciton.

Thanks John.  Due to the way I'm organised I find this a significant restriction.  I get around it with metadata, but that needs manual actions.

The bug still exists in LR 8.1 / Windows 10:

It was fixed a long time ago, just install any update after that.

I'm hitting this problem too. Not only does "starts with" not do what it says, is is not the folder but the PATH that is examined.   Come on Adobe, fix the problem AND fix the description.

This is not marked as resolved, and to me seems to remain a problem.  To me it’s a pretty simple problem.  In my case I have two folders, one is called Open Edition, the other is called Photodeck Open Edition.  The rule says to find all images in a folder which starts with Open Edition plus some other conditions.  The smart collection will find all images in both folders that meet the other conditions, not just the ones in the folder Open Editions (which is the only folder whose name starts with Open Edition)

This very likely a different bug. Please post a new bug report and include more details about the problem, including the exact smart-collection rules you are using.  A screenshot showing the Collections panel would be very helpful too.

I am running CC Classic 7.3.1. on a Mac Pro running OS 10.12.6 and have the same problem. When I try to create smart folders, the Collection Contains selector does not work as it shoud. When I put in a word, for instance 'Composites', that occurs in many collections, the smart folder selects some, but not nearly all, the photographs in those collections

The Folder field refers to the full file path of the photo, with directory delimiters replaced by spaces, e.g. 

/Users/john/test pics/dsc_075.jpg

is treated as:

Users john test pics dsc_075.jpg

The "starts with x" criterion is true if any space-separated word in that path starts with "x".   So "starts with pics" matches, as does "starts with dsc". 

"starts with x y" matches if there is a word in the path starting with "x" and a word in the path starting with "y".

Many people think that's a weird definition of "starts with", and there's a years-old feature request somewhere here about that.  (Highly unlikely Adobe will ever act on it.)

But this doesn't address your strange symptoms of folders starting with "1" and "01".