Search by year only

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I'm posting my question to find if there's a better way to achieve my goal. My project is based on scanned images, not digital creations. So I do not have EXIF data to capture. I am also actively researching the potential years of past events, so I may be working with images and lack the date of such events.

Once I do find the information, I manually update the metadata for the capture date to the month/day/year of each event.

What I want to do is search the year a photo was taken, but not required to select month/day. I want to see "all" 1976 photos, for example.

I know I can keyword this option, and that is the solution I did use. But I can't help but feel that I'm missing something obvious.

I can also sort by Capture Date. This doesn't help as I have over 700k images.

So I wanted to ask, is there a way to search (not sort) images based on capture year only?

Lightroom classic; on MAC.

johnrellis · Accepted Answer

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Here's a screenshot of @dj_paige's solution to use the Library Filter bar:

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You could also use a smart collection with this criterion:

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dj_paige · Answer

If you are talking about Lightroom Classic (which you didn't say), and the year is in the Capture Date metadata field (which you did say), then use the Filter bar. https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/finding-photos-catalog.html

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