[digiKam-users] On This Day

[Dougie Nisbet]

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 
>> <mailto: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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