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Offline franslemmens

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Search for empty fields
« on: January 13, 2009, 01:39:52 AM »
Is there a possibility to search for empty fields in the SEARCH and/or FIND option.

Thanks for any help,
Marjolijn van Steeden

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Re: Search for empty fields
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2009, 07:41:33 AM »
Marjolijn,

Is there a possibility to search for empty fields in the SEARCH and/or FIND option.

Find can look for empty fields, that I am certain.  I don't think Search can since it is Spotlight-based and Spotlight wants terms to search for.

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Re: Search for empty fields
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2009, 08:30:18 AM »
Thanks again,
best regards,
Marjolijn

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Re: Search for empty fields
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2014, 03:04:38 PM »
Marjolijn,

Is there a possibility to search for empty fields in the SEARCH and/or FIND option.

Find can look for empty fields, that I am certain.  I don't think Search can since it is Spotlight-based and Spotlight wants terms to search for.

-Kirk

So , what's the search term for an empty field ?
This will be so helpful for us.
PA
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Re: Search for empty fields
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2014, 06:09:28 AM »
Photos that have an empty field

-   Set the Find panel to find "Any of the words",
-   make the find text blank/empty,
-   set In: to "All Items" set the Keyword or whatever field to be searched
-   click Find. 


I hope this will help.
Marjolijn

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Re: Search for empty fields
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2014, 11:46:39 AM »
Very useful to find pictures without keywords or other things
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