Photoshop Elements Conjunctive (AND) Find with Details (Metadata)

[RichInSF]

Hi. I am having issues executing a Find by Details (Metadata) search with two metadata conditions using AND. I have photos in a folder named “My Wedding” that were taken using two different camera models (“iPhone 13” and “iPhone 16”). I am trying to use Find by Details to display only the photos taken by the iPhone 13 in that folder. Pretty simple, but it doesn’t work for me.

If I execute
    Find by Details where “Camera Model CONTAINS 13”

I get a bunch of photos as the result, and these are the photos taken with the iPhone 13. This is a correct result

If I execute

    Find by Details where “Folder Name IS My Wedding”

I get the contents of that folder as the result. This is correct.

Many photos are in the intersection of these two Find by Details results - i.e., many photos were taken with the iPhone 13 AND are in the “My Wedding” folder.

However, when I try to use an AND search, I run into problems. If I execute

    Find by Details where “Camera Model CONTAINS 13” AND “Folder Name IS My Wedding”

I get the message “No media available”, I.e. no results in the intersection. Clearly this is incorrect.

And more confusing, if I reverse the conditions and execute Find by Details where

    “Folder Name IS My Wedding” AND Camera Model CONTAINS 13”

Elements freezes up and stops responding, and the rotating progress icon shows in the bottom status bar of the Elements main window. I must manually kill the Elements process at this point, because the search never returns.

Any suggestions? I am using Elements 2022 on a MacBook Pro with MacOs 15.3.1 (Sequoia).

[Monte307]

I too am experiencing the same freezing issue you're having when attempting a compound search on my Mac using Elements Organizer.  I suspect it's a Mac-specific issue with their new chips.  You can successfully conduct your search using Adobe Bridge, which is a free download (see attached worksBridge.png).

[RichInSF]

Thanks, I will check out Adobe Bridge to see if that produces the correct result. Obviously, one shouldn't need to go outside the product to perform such a basic search. But note that my Macbook is Intel-based, so I don't think that's the issue. This seems to me like a bug in the implementation since for the one version of my query that doesn't freeze, it still gets the wrong (null) result. Or perhaps my catalog is somehow corrupted, and that is the problem.