[digiKam-users] On This Day

[Chris Poldervaart]

Good catch. That might be why I can’t find it! 

> On Mar 27, 2021, at 1:41 PM, Dougie Nisbet <dougie at katsura.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> I've got it now. I was on version 7.2.0-rc which doesn't have it. What a fantastic feature. Thank you.
> 
> Dougie
> 
> On 27/03/2021 11:54, Sebastian Beer wrote:
>> You may try to do an advanced search on the picture properties and choose a particular month and day.
>> This is doing perfectly what you are searching for.
>> 
>> Schönen Gruß,
>> 
>> Sebastian Beer
>> 
>>> Am 27.03.2021 um 11:26 schrieb Dougie Nisbet <dougie at katsura.uk>:
>>> 
>>> I can see how to do a date range search, so I guess I could put midnight to midnight from a previous year (although trying just now accidentally put start and end date the same which seems to have caused a freeze). That would be useful, but what I was looking for was something that would return all images on a particular date in a year, for all years. e.g. All photos for 27 mar in the range 2000 to 2021. 
>>> 
>>> [later ... It's not frozen. There's no status indication that a search is running and could take a long time. Ok, just be patient. 
>>> 
>>> Actually I've noticed I can do it by using a text search on filename, since all my photos contain the date taken as part of the name. Which can also be done on the command line in Linux using 'locate'.]
>>> 
>>> Dougie
>>> 
>>> On 27/03/2021 02:06, Rob Dueckman wrote:
>>>> That is a new feature in the 7.2 release.  It can be found under the advanced search.
>>>> 
>>>> Rob
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, 2021-03-26 at 22:14 +0000, Dougie Nisbet wrote:
>>>>> Here's a thought. Is it possible to perform a search that would return 
>>>>> all photos from a particular date (e.g. Today) from previous years in 
>>>>> the collection? I'm guessing no, and there may be a way to do in Linux 
>>>>> that I haven't explored yet. But that would probably work, if it worked 
>>>>> at all, on file modification time stamps. So not much use.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dougie
>>>>> 
>> 
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