ACDSee Pro 2 and 2.5

Search for unassigned category

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  shutterfly
  Member

  I've used ACDsee for a long time; I'm trying out the trial version of 2.5 Pro. Is there a way to search for pictures that do not have a particular category assigned?  I track a large number of high school sports players and it would be very advantageous to search for players that have not been assigned a player name category so I can catch the ones I've missed.

  Posted On June 8, 2009 - 05:28 AM (5 months ago) (Permalink to this post)
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  Marc Sabatella
  Moderator

  In the Organize window, under Special Items toward the bottom of the screen (scroll down to see it if necessary) is "Uncategorized" - clicking that should do what you want.

  Posted On June 8, 2009 - 02:20 PM (5 months ago) (Permalink to this post)
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  shutterfly
  Member

  Marc,

  Thanks for the reply. I assume that selection will show me any entries that don't have any categories assigned?  The problem is that I categorize the pictures into several broad categories first, like the year and the game the pictures came from, then I begin to assign player names to the pictures. This way I can easily narrow the search to the year or game if I need to later on. I'm guessing that once I've assigned any category to the picture that they won't show up as 'uncategorized'

  I did find a work around that's a bit clumsy. I can highlight all the player categories, selecting 'Match Any' and then tag all these photos.  Then under the Filter By dropdown I can choose 'untagged' and I think it shows me all the pictures that have no player name category assigned.

   

  Posted On June 9, 2009 - 01:49 AM (5 months ago) (Permalink to this post)
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  Marc Sabatella
  Moderator

  shutterfly said:

  Thanks for the reply. I assume that selection will show me any entries that don't have any categories assigned?  The problem is that I categorize the pictures into several broad categories first, like the year and the game the pictures came from, then I begin to assign player names to the pictures. This way I can easily narrow the search to the year or game if I need to later on. I'm guessing that once I've assigned any category to the picture that they won't show up as 'uncategorized'

  Correct.  How else could you imagine it working?  A way to teach it that you normally like to assign names, and show you only images that haven't had a name assigned yet?

  The way I'd suggest doing this as is would be to first display all all images with names - by clicking the top-level name category (the parent of all the individual names, presumably) with the "include sub-categories" option selected.  Then "tag" all of these (the little checkbox).  Next go and show everything from the shoot, and do filter by untagged.  You'll then be seeing only the images that did *not* have a name assigned.

  I did find a work around that's a bit clumsy. I can highlight all the player categories, selecting 'Match Any' and then tag all these photos.  Then under the Filter By dropdown I can choose 'untagged' and I think it shows me all the pictures that have no player name category assigned.

   

   

  Posted On June 10, 2009 - 04:58 AM (5 months ago) (Permalink to this post)
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  shutterfly
  Member

  Mark,

  Thanks but I think that's what I just said in my last post ;-)

  Again, the way I would imagine it working would be to have filter criteria that returned all the photos not assigned to a specific category.

  Posted On June 12, 2009 - 09:31 AM (5 months ago) (Permalink to this post)
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  Marc Sabatella
  Moderator

  shutterfly said:

  Thanks but I think that's what I just said in my last post ;-)

  So it is - well, a variation on the same idea, anyhow!  Sorry I somehow didn't see that right at first.

  Again, the way I would imagine it working would be to have filter criteria that returned all the photos not assigned to a specific category.

  I see now.  I assume you'd also need it use the "include sub-categories" option, so you could say ask for photos not in the parent category and have it return images that don't belong to any child category?

  Closest thing that I can see is the Quick Search feature, which allows "not" via the "-" operator.  So if you had something you knew would match everything (for me, "MJS" does that, because all my filenames that that way), you could type "MJS -category" to get everything not in that category.  But that would only include include images not in "category" itself, not just ones not in any sub-category.

  So unless you normally always assign images to the parent category when assigning specific names, you'd have a new multi-step process - first select the parent category with "include sub-categories" selected, then assign them all to the parent category, then do the quick search.  But I don't know, maybe this could be useful to you somehow?

  Posted On June 13, 2009 - 12:24 AM (5 months ago) (Permalink to this post)

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