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Inspiring
Nov 6, 2017 10:15 PM UTC
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P: Ability to search Album and Folder names

I have not found a way to search for FOLDER names, or ALBUM names in the new Lightroom CC. If a person has nested folders or nested albums there should be a way to search for keywords in the folder or album names.

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Participant
Aug 17, 2025 10:46 AM UTC

8 years later it is still not possible to search album titles ... How can this be such a difficult task? Skip the superfluous AI stuff and concentrate on basic functions please. 

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Ragartus
Participating Frequently
Jun 25, 2025 5:41 PM UTC

Also want to chime in that I've been waiting for this feature for years on mobile. 

it kind of works on LR desktop now. It shows album names most of the time and I can use Album: to prompt a search. 

But on mobile there is absolutely no way to find albums by a keyword. It's a real hassle, I also nest folders to keep things organized and I have over a hundred albums. It's way too much to scroll through each time. 

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Wurstkrapfen
Inspiring
Aug 18, 2023 12:49 PM UTC

I can search but nothing will happen, even if it finds the photos it's still not going to tell me the location of the album. 

 

Are you talking mobile or desktop version? No way in the mobile Android version. 

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danielw58122329
Known Participant
Jan 30, 2022 4:31 PM UTC

Ok, mea maxima culpa, you can search albums in the universal search bar. I was wrong.

Still think the dual code bases is a bad idea.

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danielw58122329
Known Participant
Jan 29, 2022 6:20 PM UTC

Four years later and you still can't search album titles.

 

It's just a fundamentally broken process to think that all of the BASIC functionality from LR classic really needs to be individually asked for in community forums so that it can be ignored.

 

It's a fundamentally broken process to have 2 codebases where the implementation promotes such ideas as "text searching through a list of album names is a 'classic' feature, a feature more suited to 'old school' users not modern 'cloud' users"

 

We're approaching a decade now of this split and Adobe needs to step up and start and finish and initiative to fix the fundamentally broken gaps in functionality between classic and CC.

 

The only way to do that is to not have 2 codebases. Two codebases is going to equal a decade of missing functionality for your users.

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salimnensi
Participant
Dec 2, 2021 3:54 PM UTC

Here is my use case. 

I have a lot of albums as gallery (event name as title) and too many to scroll and get distracted while going through the list.

 

When I search with title name of the album, I get no results.

 

It would be amazing if the search logic has the ability to pull the folder/gallery name too.

 

 

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Inspiring
Nov 7, 2019 11:05 PM UTC
I don't know about LRCC. I use LR Classic (desktop).
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Known Participant
Nov 6, 2019 8:27 PM UTC
You talking about LRCC or LR Classic? My understanding is that LRCC organizes for the user and provides a sophisticated search algorithm to find individual images but that there is no "folder" structure only albums generated automatically. At least that is what I understood Jared Platt to say in his video on CreativeLive.com. Do I misunderstand?
GEGJr You are right.  Lightroom (new version) is much better at finding images and doesn't organize by folders, but it does allow for an "Album" based organization on top of the shot date organization that it uses on its own.  This is true in Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Mobile.  What people are seeking is a FIND option that allows us to FIND a specific "album" which is called a "collection" in Lightroom Classic.  Lightroom Classic already allows for this in the Collections area, but somehow they didn't figure that out in Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Mobile.  So we are pestering them for it.

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Known Participant
Nov 6, 2019 8:01 PM UTC
I vote a thousand times for this feature.  It shouldn't be hard to see how important this feature is.  No one can find their albums without this feature.  It is so frustrating.
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Inspiring
Mar 18, 2019 4:22 AM UTC
I'd vote early and often for this feature.  It's a bit hard to remember folder names, and even harder to remember individual album names.
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