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Participating Frequently
November 17, 2025
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I search my LR catalog by text - it often returns images that do not contain that text!

  • November 17, 2025
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This has been a long standing issue and I can't for the life of my figure out why searching for "street" for example will also include pictures of birds with no keyword "street" ... what gives!

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johnrellis
Legend
November 18, 2025

There is still ambiguity in your descriptions. Please post a full-resolution screenshot (not a phone pic) of the Library Filter bar showing what you're searching, and we'll be able to help.

Crockny作成者
Participating Frequently
November 18, 2025
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johnrellis
Legend
November 18, 2025

The filter in your screen shot is Keywords Contains Words New York. The Keyword Tags panel for one of the matching photos show APAP, Charnett Moffet, Fine, Motema Show.

 

It's likely that one of those keywords is a hierarchical keyword whose ancestors contain the words "new" and "york".  For example, Motema Show < New York City < New York < US < Places.  When a hierarchical keyword is explicitly assigned to a photo, LR considers its ancestors also assigned to the photo, and those ancestors will be searched the Keywords criterion in filters and smart collections.

 

So the filter shown in the screenshot would match any photo assigned Motema Show, New York City, or New York.

 

You can quickly verify the ancestor keywords of Motema Show by typing "motema" in the Filter Keywords box of the Keyword List panel.

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 17, 2025

Do you specifically search for keywords, or for any text? If you search for any text, then perhaps your photos are tagged with GPS coordinates and so Lightroom finds the word 'street' in the GPS location...

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
Crockny作成者
Participating Frequently
November 17, 2025

I am searching keywords but see above - I think it's picking up metadata that is not in the keywords

Srishti Bali
Community Manager
Community Manager
November 17, 2025

Hi @Crockny,

 

Thanks for reaching out. A few details will help us understand what’s happening:

  • Which version of Lightroom Classic and Windows are you using?

  • Has this behavior started after a recent update?

  • Could you share a screenshot or short screen recording showing the search term and the unexpected results?

 

Once we have this info, we can dig deeper and help troubleshoot.

 
 
Regards,
Srishti
Crockny作成者
Participating Frequently
November 17, 2025

Yes of course ... LR Classic 14.4, Windows 10,  -- in trying to find an example using "New York"  it seems the search is  picking up "New York" from metadata even though it is not in the keywords ...