User Guide

Advanced search options
As well as the basic search features, you can use advanced options to narrow your
search by date, author, image properties or metadata.
To use advanced options to search for an item:
1. Do one of the following:
• Click Edit | Search.
• Select the Search tab.
2. Select one or more of the following options:
• Fast Search: Database Only
• Date
• Author
• Image Properties
• Metadata
3. Modify the criteria for each of the Advanced options you select.
4. Click Start.
Advanced options
The following options search either a file’s metadata or file information. You can
view file information in the File list under the Details mode.
Fast Search: This option searches the database instead of the entire (or
Database Only portion of) the hard disk drive. This option only works when
thumbnails are cached in the database.
Date
File timestamp: This option searches the last modified date.
Date in database: This option searches the database date.
After and Before dates: This option limits the search by the
dates of an item.
Author The Author option limits the search to files written or
associated with the specified author.
Image Properties Limits the search to exactly, less than or greater than a
specified dimension or color depth.
The width, height and color depth of an image are
displayed in the File list. For example, 530x384x24b.
Metadata Metadata, included with a file, was written by the device
that initially created the file. For example, a digital camera
or scanner.
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