Is there any way to search for files in specific folders?

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January 28, 2021
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So, I have a drive with about 1TB of photos on it. Every photo is in it's own folder and the folder is labelled by event (Think a folder for X&X's Wedding, M's Birthday, X&Y's Wedding, etc.). I'm working on keywording them which at 1TB of stuff, is tedious. However, if I could search by FOLDER and find anything with the word Wedding, I could batch keyword all the stuff for Weddings.

I can't seem to find anything online on how to do this though and the search capabilities makes me think this isn't possible.

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Correct answer Stephen Marsh

Sure you can:

Edit menu > Find

Many people don't know of this feature, they only know of the search field in the upper right of the main window.

Stephen Marsh

Correct answer

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Sure you can:

Edit menu > Find

Many people don't know of this feature, they only know of the search field in the upper right of the main window.

lisad56619443Author

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I use Ctrl + F but there isn’t a drop down option for folder name

lisad56619443Author

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Look lower, sorry I didn't circle this before

The files have to be named for that to pull them. If it's just img_ then searching wedding won't pull them though, right?

if I'm searching in windows I'd used a syntax like kind:folder AND filename:*wedding and it would pull all the folders and I could open the folders and batch change info but for bridge I can't seem to find a way for it to search for folders of a certain word so I can batch keyword everything in them. It just does a blanket search for file names.