Using "File Locator Pro" to search Windows Explorer properties.

How can this be done for image searches such as "dimensions", F stop",
size, etc.? There seems no such properties in "File Locator".
Peter

Peter Jason wrote:

How can this be done for image searches such as "dimensions", F stop",
size, etc.? There seems no such properties in "File Locator".

That's correct, even in the Pro version, you'll have to use another tool.

On 29/09/2015 08:41, Peter Jason wrote:
How can this be done for image searches such as "dimensions", F stop",
size, etc.? There seems no such properties in "File Locator".
Peter

What exactly are you trying to achieve? It looks as if you may be
looking for exif parameters in photographs in jpeg format. Is that correct?

There are a number of programs which can display and/or manipulate exif
data but I don't know of any which can (say) find all the photos taken
at f5.6

WAIT - I've just had a look at Irfanview Thumbnails, and it *does* have
a feature to search for text strings within the exif data - so that
*may* just do what you want.
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Cheers,
Roger
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On 29/09/2015 08:41, Peter Jason wrote:
How can this be done for image searches such as "dimensions", F stop",
size, etc.? There seems no such properties in "File Locator".
Peter

What exactly are you trying to achieve? It looks as if you may be
looking for exif parameters in photographs in jpeg format. Is that correct?

There are a number of programs which can display and/or manipulate exif
data but I don't know of any which can (say) find all the photos taken
at f5.6

WAIT - I've just had a look at Irfanview Thumbnails, and it *does* have
a feature to search for text strings within the exif data - so that
*may* just do what you want.

Yes, EXIF parameters. I checked Irfanview and it looks good but
needs more testing.
Many thanks.

On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:29:40 +0100, Roger Mills
wrote:

On 29/09/2015 08:41, Peter Jason wrote:
How can this be done for image searches such as "dimensions", F stop",
size, etc.? There seems no such properties in "File Locator".
Peter

What exactly are you trying to achieve? It looks as if you may be
looking for exif parameters in photographs in jpeg format. Is that correct?

There are a number of programs which can display and/or manipulate exif
data but I don't know of any which can (say) find all the photos taken
at f5.6

WAIT - I've just had a look at Irfanview Thumbnails, and it *does* have
a feature to search for text strings within the exif data - so that
*may* just do what you want.

It works sometimes, but if I try to sort/search by dimensions eg (
1600 x 900) etc, it fails. Very inconsistant results.

This sort of searching software seems rare indeed.

In message , Peter Jason
writes:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:29:40 +0100, Roger Mills
wrote:
[]
WAIT - I've just had a look at Irfanview Thumbnails, and it *does* have
a feature to search for text strings within the exif data - so that
*may* just do what you want.

It works sometimes, but if I try to sort/search by dimensions eg (
1600 x 900) etc, it fails. Very inconsistant results.

(That's inconsistEnt by the way.) Have you tried searching for just the
1600 or the 900? It wouldn't surprise me if the syntax of the " x " is
important - and may also vary.

This sort of searching software seems rare indeed.

Can't ordinary Windows Explorer be persuaded to have a column for
dimensions, at least for .jp(e)g files? (I don't have my 7 machine on
ATM.) If it can, then of course clicking on that column heading would
sort by it.
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I am the person for whom 'one size fits all' never fits. - Chris McMillan in
UMRA, 2011-11-12

On 30/09/2015 21:35, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Peter Jason
writes:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:29:40 +0100, Roger Mills
wrote:
[]
WAIT - I've just had a look at Irfanview Thumbnails, and it *does* have
a feature to search for text strings within the exif data - so that
*may* just do what you want.

It works sometimes, but if I try to sort/search by dimensions eg (
1600 x 900) etc, it fails. Very inconsistant results.

(That's inconsistEnt by the way.) Have you tried searching for just the
1600 or the 900? It wouldn't surprise me if the syntax of the " x " is
important - and may also vary.

This sort of searching software seems rare indeed.

Can't ordinary Windows Explorer be persuaded to have a column for
dimensions, at least for .jp(e)g files? (I don't have my 7 machine on
ATM.) If it can, then of course clicking on that column heading would
sort by it.

I don't think so because that would require it to understand the
*contents* of the file rather than just file system parameters such as
file size and creation date.
--
Cheers,
Roger
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In message , Roger Mills
writes:
On 30/09/2015 21:35, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Peter Jason
writes:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:29:40 +0100, Roger Mills
wrote:
[]
WAIT - I've just had a look at Irfanview Thumbnails, and it *does* have
a feature to search for text strings within the exif data - so that
*may* just do what you want.

It works sometimes, but if I try to sort/search by dimensions eg (
1600 x 900) etc, it fails. Very inconsistant results.

(That's inconsistEnt by the way.) Have you tried searching for just the
1600 or the 900? It wouldn't surprise me if the syntax of the " x " is
important - and may also vary.

This sort of searching software seems rare indeed.

Can't ordinary Windows Explorer be persuaded to have a column for
dimensions, at least for .jp(e)g files? (I don't have my 7 machine on
ATM.) If it can, then of course clicking on that column heading would
sort by it.

I don't think so because that would require it to understand the
*contents* of the file rather than just file system parameters such as
file size and creation date.

It already does so for .mp3 files: you can get columns for artist,
album, duration, and so on. I'm guessing it can probably do so for the
commonest image format too, though I don't know for sure.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Our enemies are inventive and resourceful. And so are we. They never stop
thinking of ways to harm out country and our people. And neither do we. -
George
W Bush, quoted by Rory Bremner in Radio Times, 10-16 January 2009

On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:13:04 +0100, Roger Mills
wrote:

On 30/09/2015 21:35, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Peter Jason
writes:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:29:40 +0100, Roger Mills
wrote:
[]
WAIT - I've just had a look at Irfanview Thumbnails, and it *does* have
a feature to search for text strings within the exif data - so that
*may* just do what you want.

It works sometimes, but if I try to sort/search by dimensions eg (
1600 x 900) etc, it fails. Very inconsistant results.

(That's inconsistEnt by the way.) Have you tried searching for just the
1600 or the 900? It wouldn't surprise me if the syntax of the " x " is
important - and may also vary.

This sort of searching software seems rare indeed.

Can't ordinary Windows Explorer be persuaded to have a column for
dimensions, at least for .jp(e)g files? (I don't have my 7 machine on
ATM.) If it can, then of course clicking on that column heading would
sort by it.

I don't think so because that would require it to understand the
*contents* of the file rather than just file system parameters such as
file size and creation date.

Win 7 & 8 have a "Dimensions" column available in Win Explorer. When I
enable that column in a folder containing pictures, the folder contents are
sortable on the first dimension. Perhaps that's all that the OP needs.

--

Char Jackson

Char Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:13:04 +0100, Roger Mills
wrote:

On 30/09/2015 21:35, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Peter Jason
writes:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:29:40 +0100, Roger Mills
wrote:
[]
WAIT - I've just had a look at Irfanview Thumbnails, and it *does* have
a feature to search for text strings within the exif data - so that
*may* just do what you want.
It works sometimes, but if I try to sort/search by dimensions eg (
1600 x 900) etc, it fails. Very inconsistant results.
(That's inconsistEnt by the way.) Have you tried searching for just the
1600 or the 900? It wouldn't surprise me if the syntax of the " x " is
important - and may also vary.
This sort of searching software seems rare indeed.
Can't ordinary Windows Explorer be persuaded to have a column for
dimensions, at least for .jp(e)g files? (I don't have my 7 machine on
ATM.) If it can, then of course clicking on that column heading would
sort by it.
I don't think so because that would require it to understand the
*contents* of the file rather than just file system parameters such as
file size and creation date.

Win 7 & 8 have a "Dimensions" column available in Win Explorer. When I
enable that column in a folder containing pictures, the folder contents are
sortable on the first dimension. Perhaps that's all that the OP needs.


A Windows search of

kindictures width:640 height:480 florida

kindics width:640 height:480 topeka

is supposed to work too.

*******

I'm having a lot of trouble finding the documents pages.

I dug this up from the WinXP days.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110101.../advquery.mspx

*******

I took the OS offline, grabbed the windows.edb file,
uses the Sysinternals "strings.exe" program to
dig up Unicode strings, sorted the results, and
these are some things found inside there. What I notice,
is the "standard" ones are poorly represented.

cameramake:Canon
cameramodelC100
dimensions:8X10
orientation:landscape
datetaken:yesterday
width:1600
height:1200
flashmode:Auto

So those would be the standard ones, the ones shown in
the documentation.

But with the "strings" search in the .edb file, I see
things like this. I think the System and Photo part
identify which subsection the terms are for.

System_Photo_Aperture
System_Photo_CameraManufacturer --- possibly cameramake ???
System_Photo_CameraModel --- OK, a standard one...
System_Photo_ContrastText
System_Photo_DateTaken
System_Photo_DateTaken
System_Photo_DigitalZoom
System_Photo_Event
System_Photo_ExposureBias
System_Photo_ExposureProgram
System_Photo_ExposureProgramText
System_Photo_ExposureTime
System_Photo_Flash
System_Photo_FlashFired
System_Photo_FlashText
System_Photo_FNumber
System_Photo_FocalLength
System_Photo_FocalLengthInFilm
System_Photo_GainControlText
System_Photo_ISOSpeed
System_Photo_LightSource
System_Photo_MaxAperture
System_Photo_MeteringMode
System_Photo_MeteringModeText
System_Photo_Orientation --- orientation:landscape ???
System_Photo_OrientationText
System_Photo_PeopleNames
System_Photo_PhotometricInterpretationText
System_Photo_ProgramModeText
System_Photo_SaturationText
System_Photo_SharpnessText
System_Photo_ShutterSpeed
System_Photo_SubjectDistance
System_Photo_TagViewAggregate
System_Photo_TagViewAggregate409
System_Photo_TagViewAggregateV409
System_Photo_WhiteBalance
System_Photo_WhiteBalanceText

Paul

On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:35:37 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Peter Jason
writes:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:29:40 +0100, Roger Mills
wrote:
[]
WAIT - I've just had a look at Irfanview Thumbnails, and it *does* have
a feature to search for text strings within the exif data - so that
*may* just do what you want.

It works sometimes, but if I try to sort/search by dimensions eg (
1600 x 900) etc, it fails. Very inconsistant results.

(That's inconsistEnt by the way.) Have you tried searching for just the
1600 or the 900? It wouldn't surprise me if the syntax of the " x " is
important - and may also vary.

I have tried a few things in Irfanview, such as:"

F/2.8 pulls up a few, but not all such F stops. Some are missed.

No luck at all with dimensions: 1200X1600, 1200 X 1600, [1200 X
1600], (1200 X 1600), "1200 X 1600" etc all give the wholw lot without
selections.

I'm going to try Lightroom soon, maybe this will work.



This sort of searching software seems rare indeed.

Can't ordinary Windows Explorer be persuaded to have a column for
dimensions, at least for .jp(e)g files? (I don't have my 7 machine on
ATM.) If it can, then of course clicking on that column heading would
sort by it.

Yes, Explorer does the job, but I have to let it run overnight because
it's slow.

On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 20:59:00 -0400, Paul wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:13:04 +0100, Roger Mills
wrote:

On 30/09/2015 21:35, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Peter Jason
writes:
On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:29:40 +0100, Roger Mills
wrote:
[]
WAIT - I've just had a look at Irfanview Thumbnails, and it *does* have
a feature to search for text strings within the exif data - so that
*may* just do what you want.
It works sometimes, but if I try to sort/search by dimensions eg (
1600 x 900) etc, it fails. Very inconsistant results.
(That's inconsistEnt by the way.) Have you tried searching for just the
1600 or the 900? It wouldn't surprise me if the syntax of the " x " is
important - and may also vary.
This sort of searching software seems rare indeed.
Can't ordinary Windows Explorer be persuaded to have a column for
dimensions, at least for .jp(e)g files? (I don't have my 7 machine on
ATM.) If it can, then of course clicking on that column heading would
sort by it.
I don't think so because that would require it to understand the
*contents* of the file rather than just file system parameters such as
file size and creation date.

Win 7 & 8 have a "Dimensions" column available in Win Explorer. When I
enable that column in a folder containing pictures, the folder contents are
sortable on the first dimension. Perhaps that's all that the OP needs.


A Windows search of

kindictures width:640 height:480 florida

kindics width:640 height:480 topeka

is supposed to work too.

*******

I'm having a lot of trouble finding the documents pages.

I dug this up from the WinXP days.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110101.../advquery.mspx

*******

I took the OS offline, grabbed the windows.edb file,
uses the Sysinternals "strings.exe" program to
dig up Unicode strings, sorted the results, and
these are some things found inside there. What I notice,
is the "standard" ones are poorly represented.

cameramake:Canon
cameramodelC100
dimensions:8X10
orientation:landscape
datetaken:yesterday
width:1600
height:1200
flashmode:Auto

So those would be the standard ones, the ones shown in
the documentation.

But with the "strings" search in the .edb file, I see
things like this. I think the System and Photo part
identify which subsection the terms are for.

System_Photo_Aperture
System_Photo_CameraManufacturer --- possibly cameramake ???
System_Photo_CameraModel --- OK, a standard one...
System_Photo_ContrastText
System_Photo_DateTaken
System_Photo_DateTaken
System_Photo_DigitalZoom
System_Photo_Event
System_Photo_ExposureBias
System_Photo_ExposureProgram
System_Photo_ExposureProgramText
System_Photo_ExposureTime
System_Photo_Flash
System_Photo_FlashFired
System_Photo_FlashText
System_Photo_FNumber
System_Photo_FocalLength
System_Photo_FocalLengthInFilm
System_Photo_GainControlText
System_Photo_ISOSpeed
System_Photo_LightSource
System_Photo_MaxAperture
System_Photo_MeteringMode
System_Photo_MeteringModeText
System_Photo_Orientation --- orientation:landscape ???
System_Photo_OrientationText
System_Photo_PeopleNames
System_Photo_PhotometricInterpretationText
System_Photo_ProgramModeText
System_Photo_SaturationText
System_Photo_SharpnessText
System_Photo_ShutterSpeed
System_Photo_SubjectDistance
System_Photo_TagViewAggregate
System_Photo_TagViewAggregate409
System_Photo_TagViewAggregateV409
System_Photo_WhiteBalance
System_Photo_WhiteBalanceText

Paul

I often use the 'Camera Model' to help sort images into sets (they
tend to be taken with one camera.) Other parameters help too,
especially 'Dimensions'

Peter Jason wrote:


Yes, Explorer does the job, but I have to let it run overnight because
it's slow.

Do you have Indexing turned on for the drive ?
Does the Control Panel for Indexing Options show
things are up-to-date (indexing is finished) ?

The purpose of generating an index, is so it
doesn't run overnight, but comes back almost
immediately.

Generating an index of my C: drive takes three
hours, but once it is done, a search result comes
back quickly. If you decide to not generate an
index, the resulting brute force run could
indeed take a long time. So it's a "pay me now
or pay me later" tradeoff, for any kind of
content search. If all your search requirements
could be satisfied via file name, there are better
tools than Windows Search for that.

Paul

In message , Paul
writes:
Peter Jason wrote:

Yes, Explorer does the job, but I have to let it run overnight
because
it's slow.

Do you have Indexing turned on for the drive ?
Does the Control Panel for Indexing Options show
things are up-to-date (indexing is finished) ?
[]
Or, if it's a directory with a lot of pictures in, do you have thumbnail
preview (or whatever it's called) turned on? (Can it even _be_ turned
off? I think it's on by default.) That could certainly slow things.
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