[Digikam-users] Solved - Re: How to EXCLUDE album names in searches?

[ruediger]

that exactly was the trick I was looking for, thanks a lot!

jim junk schrieb:
> Go to search in the left panel then click on advanced search.
>
> click on "File, Albums, Tags" to expand it then click on the Album.  
> You'll use the top choice and once expanded you can click on  all of 
> the albums you want to include.
>
> I'm not sure exactly what you want to accomplish but this limits what 
> you see to the selected albums.  I can't see why you would need to 
> exclude albums you can't see but since it's what you've asked for what 
> you need to do is go to the bottom of the search window and click on 
> "+ Add Search Group".
>
> This opens a second group that looks exactly like the first but it 
> gives additional Boolean choices.  So if I understand what you want 
> you should....
>
> Click first on the "OR" to change it to "AND" and then click on "None 
> of these conditions are met".  Then last you click on "File, Album, 
> Tags" then like above you open the album choice and click on the 
> albums that you don't want to see.
>
> If you just want to exclude an album again go to find > advanced 
> search >+add search group > Change OR to AND and select none of these 
> conditions are met then  >file, albums, tags > Albums and select the 
> albums you want to exclude.  Notice that nothing was set in the first 
> group.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>
>
> 04539_tJRVJ-3af4d58f1f79b4f89f1e7d370668d63b_123_23lo
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> > Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 21:58:25 +0100
> > From: ruedbi at yahoo.de
> > To: digikam-users at kde.org
> > Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] How to EXCLUDE album names in searches?
> >
> > no, it's not the same
> > the same way I can include album NAMES (!) I want to be able to exclude
> > them as it was in digikam <1.0
> > e.g. I want to exclude all albums named "work", "temp" or similar 
> that I
> > require for my workflow, but that may show intermediate processing 
> results
> >
> > jim junk schrieb:
> > > Under Searches/Advanced Searches the first item is "File, Album,
> > > Tags". If you click on this item you can use the Album choice to
> > > limit the search to certain albums which is the same as excluding
> > > certain albums.
> > >
> > > Then you could go to picture properties to set the date.
> > >
> > > It seems to work just fine for me. Good luck.
> > >
> > > > Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:54:23 +0100
> > > > From: ruedbi at yahoo.de
> > > > To: digikam-users at kde.org
> > > > Subject: [Digikam-users] How to EXCLUDE album names in searches?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > with digikam 1.0 I don't find a intuitive way to exclude 
> albumnames
> > > > > from searches as easy I could in v0.9. E.g.:
> > > > >
> > > > > search pics with date xy, excluding albumnames A and B.
> > > > I would like to specify something as "NOT (A AND B)", but I 
> can't even
> > > > negate a single album name.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any proposals? Thanks!
> > > > >
> > > > > Rüdiger
> > > > >
> > > > >
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