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Add a basic 'Find' command to iPhoto4 Apps
After upgrading to iPhoto 4 I was stunned that there was no Find command. You could search your photo collection by keyword, but no other way. After a bit of cursing, I found a way to use a smart album as a makeshift search command.

Create a new smart album and call it something like "Find...". I set the conditions to "any text contains" and then several "Keyword contains", but you can set up anything you think you might search in regularly. Leave the fields blank for now and save your new album.

When you want to perform a search, click on your Find album, hit command-I and tab to the field you want to search by. Once you hit enter, your search results appear in the Find album. The nice thing about this is it will also remember your last search until you perform another one.

Not quite the same as searching in iTunes or Address Book, but it works pretty well.
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Add a basic 'Find' command to iPhoto4
Authored by: Barney15e on Feb 03, '04 02:23:04PM

Did they remove the Search field from the keyword window? I haven't bought 4, yet, but that worked pretty well in 2.



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Add a basic 'Find' command to iPhoto4
Authored by: adrianm on Feb 03, '04 04:49:39PM

Correct, the find field has gone from keywords window.

I too use smart albums for my searching now and find it quite useful. just requires a right click on album, then choose edit... just a bit harder than cmd+f ...



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Add a basic 'Find' command to iPhoto4
Authored by: dogboy on Feb 04, '04 04:57:03AM

You could set up a keyboard shortcut, probably.



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Great!
Authored by: Chronologist on Feb 03, '04 05:29:54PM

One of the first things I did with iPhoto 5 was submit feedback to Apple over the need of a search function (or even keyboard navigation; ie: press "f" to highlight the first pic named "Ferrari"). While not quite the same, and I'm surprised I hadn't thought of this, this hint is a great replacement. Only a few seconds longer than a search field would take.. but I don't search so much that it matters.

Now I just have to fix all the names of downloaded pictures to something besides a string of numbers. Big thanks from me, though.



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Add a basic 'Find' command to iPhoto4
Authored by: ClassicUser on Feb 03, '04 09:52:54PM

Great workaround - but the lack of a simple text search in iPhoto 4 is a rather curious omission...



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Add a basic 'Find' command to iPhoto4
Authored by: ajoakland on Feb 08, '04 11:43:35AM

The Apple include iPhoto help file tells you specifically to do as this hint says if you want to do a general text find. Definitely Kludgey on Apple's part. Anyone up to creating an apple script that prompts you for your search term and automagically creates the smart album for you?



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