Lightroom: Ability to search for Folder Names in Library Module

This feature was implemented in Lightroom Classic CC 7.2 - please see: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/help/create-folders.html#search-folders

Thanks Alan.  —Kirby.

Everyone who is participating in this conversation should check out Jeffrey Freidl's Data Explorer plugin. It allows quick partitioning of a set of files by parent folder, and more than 200 other criteria. I use it often to find images that don't have a certain keyword. It really will solve this problem for you.

Don't hold your breath waiting for Adobe to add this feature--unless you are an anaerobe.

Option 2, the ability to filter the list of folders in the Folders panel, seems like a no-brainer.

But, still, after all these years (5 years from this original posted idea) there's no filtering for folders.

I, too, am moving from Aperture (I am a Cert. Aperture Pro), and am astonished LR does not allow filtering by folder name. I have always used long folder names (Projects, in Aperture, similar but not the same) to store information that I use to search, find, and filter by container.  (My naming scheme is ShootName_ShootLocation_[Model1]_[Model2]_Photographer_#ofImages_DevelopmentCode_DDD-dd-MMM-yyyy.)  The utility of this should be obvious.  In Aperture, I used the same naming convention for Finder folders and for Projects.  LR _improves_ on this, by allowing me to use Finder folders as containers ... and then steps on a rake, hits itself in the face, and falls down knocked-out cold by not providing a way to filter the folder list.

This should be added, imho.

Why after all these years only Collections get a search bar to quickly and easily filter down the Collections but Folders do NOT get a search bar to quickly and easily filter down the Folders?

It would be great to have ability to search by folder name. The folder name is a 'metadata' that already exists. Making it searchable will save users trouble of creating another 'tag' or 'keyword'. 

It is a simple feature. It would tremendously improve user experience. 

If you want to, please see now defuct Picasa to see how to implement this feature. Picasa had (and has) the best implementation of this feature. 

It would be very easy to add feature and will same lots of time to lot of people. 

Thanks.

Lightroom should include the ability to search by folder name for folders in a given Lightroom catalog.  My main way of organizing photos is by folder.  Each folder generally contains photos from a different event or shoot.  I name each folder consistently, with a date and a short description.  For instance, 2016-12-06 Vacation in France.  While I might also include keywords for photos within that folder, the simplest way to find all of the photos I am looking for is to search by folder name.  People are much less likely to effectively keyword each photo, and even if they did, a search for keywords will often retrieve photos from different shoots on different days or years.  I am not a programmer, but I would think that this basic search function in the Library module (which you can do in Bridge, which doesn't have Lightroom's database functions, or even in the Mac or Windows OS) would not be a hard lift.  Please, please, please consider adding in this basic functionality.  Thank you.

I'm wondering why there isn't a catalog search for folder name/dates in the Library module. Wasn't that there at one point? I'd like to isolate folders to work on and find work in my archive hierarchy.

I wish there was a quick search / filter for folders.

ie. if I type in "Vienna" it would filter out all folders but "Vienna 2005", "Vienna 2007", "Roadtrip to Vienna" etc.