Question about folders

[norville101]

I have a library with about 100K "diffusions"... I love this application and find it indispensable! But I have a couple of questions and I'm hoping someone has an idea of how I could address them.

First: my library is sub-divided into two main folders... one folder represents all the images created by me, and the other folder represents images created by someone else. I have these separated in the file system... they are two separate (and different) folder structures. My issue is, sometimes I want to browse, search, etc. across only one of these folder structures, sometimes across the other, and occasionally across both of them. What is the best way to set this up?

Right now I have both of these folders specified in settings, and when I go to the "Search/Diffusions" tab, all the images show up mixed together. Is it possible to temporarily limit the "scope" of the search/diffusions tab, to only a specific folder (and all its children)? Or can you think of workaround to accomplish something similar -- maybe involving the recently added support for "unavailable" folders?

[RupertAvery]

You should be able to limit searches by folder, but filtering can be a fit fiddly. There are two ways to search, one is by typing things in the search bar. Aside from search prompts, it can also filter by date, by folder and many others. If you press F1 there should be a section about searching using things like "date: from to "

So you could search through specific folders with

path: "D:\Path\To\Folder1*" cats, sunsets, beach

Or, you could click on the Filter icon (or CTRL-F) and under the metadata set the path to "D:\Path\To\Folder1*", the set the prompt as you want to search. Currently you can't mix the two, so it's either-or, seach in the search bar or the filter.

You can Search>Save Query/Filter after you perform a search, then you can click on the saved query as a sort of template for searching, if that makes sense

[norville101]

Thanks for the answer @RupertAvery ! I didn't realize you could type things like path:"..." into the search bar... that is definitely good to know! That will do for now!

Maybe if anybody else thinks it's a useful idea, there could be a way to save a particular subset of folders as a named subset of the folders... and then have a dropdown somewhere in the Search/Diffusions view, to search "only within" that named subset... because I tend to want these location subsets to be a little more persistant than the current search string. (Because I want to spend some time, often a whole usage session, in a single folder subset, while frequently resetting and changing the search string.)

But like I said, just being able to put the path wildcard IN the search bar, is great for now... didn't know you could do that. Awesome. Great, great piece of software, by the way!