marijnkampf / Random-Photo-Screensaver

Source of Random Photo Screensaver
http://www.abscreensavers.com/random-photo-screensaver/open-source
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Need help with correct usage of filters #24

Closed rwburbage closed 9 years ago

rwburbage commented 9 years ago

First I want to say thank you for such an awesome program. I've been looking for a program to display family photos easily with filtering and or folder selection. Great work! I have a tremendous amount of family photos and I want to filter out any path or files names with 1,2 or more words. I've tried a number of way with apply filters, save the filter, save button and I can't seem to filter out photos names or paths. for example the paths and or filenames will contain 2 words to filter "mummy player" as a string in that order. Do I need to add quotes for exclude-paths-containing-"mummy player". I've tried that and it doesn't work either. I'm assuming I need to 'add filter dimension' for each filter correct? I have about 10 filters added. The save filter sql look fine but I test and the unwanted photos pop up with paths or filenames with mummy player in them.

rwburbage commented 9 years ago

AS soon as I leave a help message I tried again. It is working. The filters are case sensitive??...

marijnkampf commented 9 years ago

The filter names shouldn't be case sensitive, there is probably something else going on. If you create a filter:

Exclude paths Containing mummy player

it will exclude

c:\mummy player\example.jpg
c:\Mummy Player\example.jpg
c:\example\001 mummy player.jpg
c:\example\001 Mummy Player.jpg

but not

c:\mummy\player\example.jpg
c:\example\mummy\player.jpg

There is a \ between folder/file names, to exclude this add another dimension: Exclude paths Containing mummy\player

PS. Clicking on 'Show advanced settings...' shows an overview of the dimensions that can me used: The following dimensions can be used in filters: [database column] [description] paths full path (folder and filename) parent paths folder path only filenames filename (including extension) created date created date modified date modified date metadata all metadata of media size file size width width of the media in pixels height height of the media in pixels area pixel width x height of the media