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Any way to search your own drive by metadata?
georgep7:
Here is an odd semi-offtopic answer.
Guess applies to starters with not at all ports or newbies with small ports like me.
edit (and requires a lot of time actually, I have tried and dropped it quite a few times... TBH)
Adding everything on a local wordpress installation and creating an offline site.
EDIT 2, local to save online hosting fees and all theme, CSS, or Commerse plugins usage etc restrictions that require e.g. a business plan ($25/month).
Assuming you do this, you get a cool instant browsing catalogue of all work with hot links to agencies selling the specific items,
image / video previews, applied categories, ratings, tables, monthly posts with self-reports and full title / description / keyword search.
In a laptop plus a fast external hdd is a really customizable and everyday upgraded portfolio to present to a customer or associate in person.
I mean full high res work without the option to get content hijacked or ending up to the wrong hands.
Using a web spider software (if media watermarked) you can also make an up to date static mirror and zip send as sampling or portfolio.
You can also just brag to friends and family if they don't observe the 127.0.0.1 starting web address... :P :P :P
Back to serious talking: Plus a (just a mind -relief not actual) possibility to bring site to life and try to sell online if everything else goes wrong...
Uncle Pete:
--- Quote from: philopenshaw on September 29, 2019, 17:15 ---Windows 8 and 10 does it if you have indexing turned on, press the windows key and w together then type 'indexing' 0to configure it. On mac OSX it shpuld do it by default when you type word combinations into the search.
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Alright I'm slow but I'm finally on my desktop. Go over that again? I hold the windows key and W and get Windows Ink Space. I look in explorer and I see nothing that says search Metadata but if I search for (example two words I know are in the iptc data) "orange flower" I get no matches.
Please tell me what I'm doing wrong. No I don't have Adobe cloud software, I still use Adobe Elements and although I have the last version of Lightroom, I don't want to index 8T of photos. ;) Probably have some PS stand alone around here somewhere.
But if Windows does this and yes I have indexing on and I don't want to go through some project? How do I search metadata based on my already indexed hard drives?
Lets see, I added E:, I checked file types (all image types were already included) I added properties and data, it was just set for properties. This could be really useful.
Thanks
cascoly:
--- Quote ---But if Windows does this and yes I have indexing on and I don't want to go through some project? How do I search metadata based on my already indexed hard drives?
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open a folder eg /this pc/pictures and enter search term in upper right
MotionDesign:
win 10 search, or adobe bridge (i use the latter)
hatman12:
--- Quote from: cascoly on October 03, 2019, 13:14 ---
--- Quote ---But if Windows does this and yes I have indexing on and I don't want to go through some project? How do I search metadata based on my already indexed hard drives?
--- End quote ---
open a folder eg /this pc/pictures and enter search term in upper right
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This is the correct and excellent answer.
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