This should be so simple.  I want to find a photo I took in 2014.  If I search for .jpg  and filter on modified in 2014 I get a total of 2 returns. These are not even images.  If I search for .jpg and filter on created in 2014, I get over a quarter million returns, with "Modified" dates going back to 2001.  There has to be a happy medium where I can just get things that were new to the world in 2014.  20 or 30 years ago this was simple.  Do I have to buy a specialty program to do the same thing these days?  Do you have any recommendations?  (P.S> - I never want to search within files - just on file names. ) Oh, and when the scan got to about 285,000 hits, it just quit and started over.  it is up to about 180,000 so far on the second try.  Yes, I rebooted this morning so there are no patches, etc. that are half-installed.

Do you have any recommendations?  (P.S> - I never want to search within files - just on file names. )

Learn some AQS.  E.g. always use  name:~  with the appropriate position specifier.  So in your case you could try  name:~>.jpg  However, I think you don't even need to do that much, just learn which properties you want to find.  E.g. perhaps  kind:=picture  would be enough?  That one you wouldn't even need to know the syntax for.  It was given automatically when I used the Kind menu in the ribbon.

Good luck

Hi Lightft,

I am not clear about how many details you have got about the photo.

But we can add the detailed tab and filter the pictures according to the information we have got.

Choose the "view" and then choose "detail".Then add the tab according to our needs .

Add the filter factor .

Best regards

RA -

Thanks for the direction.  It got me to explore the search panel on the ribbon more than I had done before.  A search for pictures modified in 2014 got me about 280,000 hits.  I took the series of shots about a year ago +/- 4 months. It was of an antique radio schematic.  Searching on antique, radio, schematic, the guy's name all returned nothing. 

Suppose you're looking for an image named "early universe light map.jpg". Then you search for it like this:

        *.jpg early +universe

or

        *.jpg early +light

or

        *.jpg early +map

Bruce -

Thanks for your post.  Unfortunately, what I know is I took the photo series last summer, made copies and ran a bunch of tools on them and sent the tweaked copies to a third party.  I almost never delete either originals or final copies, so both sets should be on my media server.  I finally used the search string *.jpg datemodified:last year and narrowed the field to ~33,000 images which I searched visually. Fortunately, I remembered to disconnect a drive with another 30 GB of images from several other projects before searching!  An issue possibly for another forum is why in a number of cases I can type in what I am searching for in the search box and absolutely nothing happens. Literally, I can type in [person name] graduation and nothing will happen (it is as if the search box is empty), clear the box, rerun, and get the same lack of results, and then try the exact string 10 minutes later and get what I hoped. The first two times, no search took place. No progress bar, no results or "none found". Is there a special trick to saying "OK, that is what I want, now please do something"?  Hitting enter while the cursor is active in the search box seems to work about 30% of the time.