Searching for file information

Is it possible to search for files that have File Information data embedded? The info could have been entered in either the Origin or Description tabs, and will have been entered in both CS3 and CS4 versions of Photoshop (ie not through Bridge).

I would like to find: A) all files that have any sort of file info attached, and B) to be able to search by keyword (or metatag, I'm not 100% sure of the difference).

Many thanks for any help.

Brian

Searching for file information

brianpeart wrote:

Is it possible to search for files that have File Information data embedded

Searching for file information

Dear Curt, thanks for your prompt reply!

Thats not quite what I was asking about. I have a customer's archive of many thousands of scans of 35mm slides, negs etc. (not from digi cameras). Some of these images have file info embedded - typed in using the File Info command in Photoshop. I need to be able to sort out those that have the info from those that do not, and further, I want to be able to search for a particular term, for example ''british rock group''.

I know about how to Search using Ctrl-F, and I have discovered the drop-down box that lets you select items to search on, but it doesn't appear to work properly, so either its a bug or I'm doing it wrong. For example, if I do a search where Keywords + Exists, it only finds 12 images and I know for certain that there are many more than 12 images that have info attached. If I change it to Description + Exists, it still only finds the same 12 images. If I search for Description + Contains + British rock group, it finds nothing, even though I can see two pictures that clearly have the term ''british rock group'' in their descriptions from the previous ''Keywords + Exists'' search.

I'm sure the data has been entered correctly in File Info in the first place, so I don't understand why Bridge cant find these files (or more than 12), there are many hundreds of files that have data embedded.

This is Bridge v 3.0.0.464 in CS4.

do you have the two checkboxes selected in the Find dialog box? (include subfolders and non-indexed files)

A neat shortcut for finding a keyword, without typing errors, is to go to the keywords panel and right click on the keyword.?In the drop down box click on Find and it will take you to the search engine and the keyword is already typed in.

If folders are not indexed the file will not be found.?Then do as Zeno recommends and click on searching non-indexed files.

Also, search starts at the ''look in'' directory and goes down.?So if the files are in a folder above the ''look in'' folder in the directory tree it will not search there.