[digiKam-users] On This Day

[Dougie Nisbet]

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

[Rob D]

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

[Dougie Nisbet]

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

[Sebastian Beer]

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 <[hidden email]>:

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

[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 <[hidden email]>:

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

[vaarticus]

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

On Mar 27, 2021, at 1:41 PM, Dougie Nisbet <[hidden email]> 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 <[hidden email]>:

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