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mvanderbilt
Participating Frequently
Jul 10, 2024 5:41 AM UTC
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P: Starts With … text filter on captions or filename incorrectly matches words

The previous behavior was to match a caption or filename that starts with the search string.

 

For example, searching for filename that "Starts With" "FE" matches both "FeeDemoWall.jpg" and "Big Tree 12 Feet.jpg"

 

The same behaviour happens searching for captions. Maybe other things too but I only tested these two.

12 replies

WeekendCoder
Participant
Aug 16, 2025 4:14 AM UTC

14.5 just came out and... STILL the bug is there. It's a simple bug to fix (I'm a sw engineer) but a PITA to live with. Why??

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Participant
Jul 2, 2025 12:19 PM UTC

v14.4 and still the same odd behaviour:

"ends with"- or "start with"-filter matches words of the text not the complete text.

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mvanderbilt
Participating Frequently
May 10, 2025 7:38 PM UTC

This can't be that difficult of a fix. I have thousands of captions created with this search pattern in mind and it's a PITA to have lots of other photos match when I'm searching for that set.

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Califdan2
Inspiring
May 10, 2025 7:23 PM UTC

14.3 and still no fix.  Can this please get some attention !

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Legend
Feb 4, 2025 6:48 AM UTC

LrC 14.1.1 and this is not fixed. Shame on Adobe.

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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
Jan 13, 2025 1:20 PM UTC

The team has confirmed the previous issue regressed in 13.3 and we've opened a new bug. 

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Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
johnrellis
Legend
Jan 10, 2025 5:17 PM UTC

A different aspect of Starts With/Ends With also broke in LR 13.3:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-bugs/p-issue-in-text-filter-caption-ends-with/idc-p/15082240

 

As with this behavior, it had originally been broken and fixed somewhere between LR 7 and LR 8.3, and then broke again in LR 13.3. I wonder if a developer accidentally restored an old version of some code and introduced a true bug regression.

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Participating Frequently
Aug 16, 2024 10:16 PM UTC

Bonjour, 

 

Sur Mac, je viens de faire la MaJ vers LRC 13.5 et j'ai remarqué un bug : 

- lors de la création d'une "Collection dynamique"

- avec un filtre sur la propriété "Nom de Fichier" le critère "Commençant par" fonctionne désormais comme "Contient". 

 

A connaissance, cela fonctionnait jusqu'à la version précédente, c'est donc une régression de la 13.5. 

 

Pouvez-vous corriger rapidement ? (enfin moins lentement que d'habitude)

 

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johnrellis
Legend
Aug 17, 2024 3:17 AM UTC

Adobe has acknowledged this bug. Unfortunately, they rarely indicate ahead of time when a bug will be fixed.

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Participant
Aug 8, 2024 3:50 PM UTC

Also the "Ends with" filter on a caption does no longer work. It returns the same as the "contains" filter.

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johnrellis
Legend
Jul 10, 2024 5:28 PM UTC

I too observe this change in behavior from LR 13.2 and previous versions. It also affects Keywords Starts With.

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