advanced search on EXIF field empty or not allocated

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

I already responded in a similar mail from another thread from you in this
ML.

Please test the 8.9.0 pre-release to see if the current
implementation solves your wish, else report in bugzilla.

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

Best regards

Gilles Caulier

Le mar. 11 nov. 2025 à 11:07, olivier mimet <omimet at free.fr> a écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> My collection (#20.000 images) contains some media (~1500) with bad
> creation date (images received inside SMS -vs email- without EXIF data, and
> automatically tagged with the recording date  at postponed registration by
> the smartphone)
>
> In order to make adjustments I need to filter those images, but didn't yet
> succeed using the Digikam advanced search (my criteria : all the images
> with one dedicated EXIF field - "camera manufacturer" by example - not
> allocated)
>
> Is there a way to make such filtering (it seems to me that checking if a
> specific EXIF field is used or not is a very common concern...)?
>
> My feed back : I thought at first that the N/A value (see attached
> screenshot) was the way, but without result...
>
> Many thanks for your REX.
>
> Olivier
>
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