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Title: Find Files without GPS data
Post by: BanjoTom on October 21, 2016, 11:17:08 PM
I've gone through the Help files for the filter panel, but still can't seem to figure out how to set up a filter that will find just the files in a given folder (that's the scope) that LACK any GPS data, i.e., no latitude, no longitude.   

How should I set this up in the filter panel?  Any advice, anyone?  Thanks for any help you can offer!

Title: Re: Find Files without GPS data
Post by: jch2103 on October 21, 2016, 11:53:45 PM
See screenshot for one way, using a data-driven property to find files with Other (i.e., no coordinate). There's likely a more elegant solution, but this works for my purposes (note that it assumes all GPS coordinates are in pairs, allowing use of only GPSLatitudeRef).
Title: Re: Find Files without GPS data
Post by: Mario on October 22, 2016, 07:44:36 AM
Another way is the Filter Panel, using a Value filter:

Select the GPS latitude or longitude as the tag to filter. Then enable the option "Files with value" (which filters for all files with data in that tag) and also the "invert" option to get the opposite. The outcome are all files without data for the selected tag. Store the filter if you want to reuse it later.

This works for all metadata tags, not only GPS data of course.

See also the article How To Find Files Without Metadata (https://www.photools.com/3872/find-files-without-metadata/) in the IMatch DAM knowledge base.
Title: Re: Find Files without GPS data
Post by: BanjoTom on October 22, 2016, 04:47:27 PM
Thanks, Mario -- that's EXACTLY what I needed!  Your support and help are the BEST!!!   :)