[digiKam-users] Searching ANDed tags

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[digiKam-users] Searching ANDed tags

Dougie Nisbet

I'm a bit confused about Search. I'd like to search for all photos which have two tags. The process and dialogue seems straightforward enough under Advanced Search, and I want all tags to be present. But nothing much seems to be happening. I've tried clicking on Try and OK.

I have a hunch that Digikam is very busy as I have a large collection of 100K+ photos so ANDing two tags in that lot might take a while. But there's no progress indicator and I'm not sure how else to see what's going on. The Linux System Monitor shows it at the top.

The Search Window also shows a couple of 'Current Search' entries under Searches and I'm not sure what they are, and if I should be trying to remove them. I'm guessing they're old searches, and I can right-click and Edit and I think that might be the case. Is this WAD or should I tidy them up?

I've not explored this corner of Digikam much yet but being able to do a boolean AND search on two tags would be enormously useful to me and I'd like to get my head around it.

Dougie

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Re: Searching ANDed tags

Maik Qualmann
If the search result includes several thousand items, it may take some time.
Open the extended search, select tags that must be included. It is important
to select the "In ALL" option. The search in the database is very fast, the
listing can take some time, if they are many items. But also 50,000 items in
the view normally only last a few seconds.

Maik

Am Sonntag, 14. Juni 2020, 21:43:37 CEST schrieb Dougie Nisbet:

> I'm a bit confused about Search. I'd like to search for all photos which
> have two tags. The process and dialogue seems straightforward enough under
> Advanced Search, and I want all tags to be present. But nothing much seems
> to be happening. I've tried clicking on Try and OK.
>
> I have a hunch that Digikam is very busy as I have a large collection of
> 100K+ photos so ANDing two tags in that lot might take a while. But there's
> no progress indicator and I'm not sure how else to see what's going on. The
> Linux System Monitor shows it at the top.
>
> The Search Window also shows a couple of 'Current Search' entries under
> Searches and I'm not sure what they are, and if I should be trying to
> remove them. I'm guessing they're old searches, and I can right-click and
> Edit and I think that might be the case. Is this WAD or should I tidy them
> up?
>
> I've not explored this corner of Digikam much yet but being able to do a
> boolean AND search on two tags would be enormously useful to me and I'd
> like to get my head around it.
>
> Dougie