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December 25, 2025
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Library:Filter Contains / Doesn't Contain`

  • December 25, 2025
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Library:Filter "Contains" / "Doesn't Contain" add option to open TWO input boxes

Library:Filter add "Recent Filters List"

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Community Expert
December 26, 2025

Sorry, but I don't understand your issue/question. Please describe more detailed.

 

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ebkhunerAuthor
Participant
December 26, 2025
Library:Filter*has only one box for placing search terms*.

I want *two boxes so that one can be "Contains" "Contains All",  and the
second box can be "Doesn't Contain"*

Furthermore, there is no drop down menu with either previous searches or
previous search terms.

Long winded complaint :

The current work-around (AFIK) is to create a smart collection. The
problem I have with smart collections is that it is tricky to reliably
create and later delete a smart collection.  LRC seems to have two types
of smart collections or smart collection folders, and I have struggled
to delete or edit a smart collection. Sometimes I double click on the
smart collection and LRC doesn't let me edit it - doesn't even open the
edit window. You seem to have put an invisible switch that causes
intermittent successes when attempting to edit.  I think you also have
two different context menus with smart collections, and I don't know
which one I am going to get.

Eliot Khuner
Berkeley CA
johnrellis
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December 26, 2025

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Your desired functionality is provided in a different way. You can use "!" to indicate strings that the results shouldn't contain. For example,

 

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will return photos whose captions contain both "A" and "B"  but not "D". See here for more details:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/finding-photos-catalog.html