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August 2, 2011

P: Text filtering problems with "Starts With"

  • August 2, 2011
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I used to use the "Text" option in the Library Filter in Grid mode to select photographs that needed renaming. I used the "Filename" "Starts With" option. It used to filter only files whose file name started with the text that I put into the search box. Now it appears to find any file that has the text in the file name, not just at the beginning. It seems to be looking at the beginning of every word in the file name. I think I first noticed this when Version 3 came out, but it might have been before that.

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johnrellis
Legend
June 30, 2014
Two more reports of the same problem with "filename starts with / ends with" treating filenames as punctuation-separated words:

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...
(see the post on 6/30/14)
johnrellis
Legend
September 5, 2013
Adobe Employee
August 2, 2011
I was able to reproduce this, and have filed a bug.
Known Participant
August 2, 2011
This is another example of the inconsistent and strange behavior with string matching in Lightroom. Hopefully now that the new rendering engine was finished in version 3. The developers can really work on cleaning up and enhancing the DAM functionality.