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Title: Find images with identical entries for title and description
Post by: ben on March 04, 2017, 12:51:54 PM
Hi everyone,

i have a bunch of images, that have the same title (xmp) and description (xmp).
Is there an easy way to find those pictures?

Thanks,
Ben
Title: Re: Find images with identical entries for title and description
Post by: Mario on March 04, 2017, 02:00:48 PM
Two Metadata Filters in the Filter Panel? One for Title, one for Description?
If you enable the Title filter for a scope, the Description filter will show all unique descriptions in that scope, and how many files have the description. Then you can pick easily (n > 1).
Title: Re: Find images with identical entries for title and description
Post by: ben on March 04, 2017, 04:06:48 PM
not sure, if i understand that correctly.

Title and Description are identical for those images.
But each affected file has another title/description.
Title: Re: Find images with identical entries for title and description
Post by: Mario on March 04, 2017, 04:22:41 PM
When you filter for title "A" you see files with descriptions A,B.C.D in the value filter for the Description tag. Then click on A in that filter and you see all files where Title (A) = Desc (A).

There is no built-in feature for "Show me all files which have the same value in tag 1 and tag 2 and group them like this...". This is a functionality that is very rarely needed, if at all.

If you have many files, try to create a data-driven category. With a variable as the source.

Create a variable expression that becomes "1" when "Title" = "Description" and 0 otherwise.
If you use this to drive a data-driven category, you will end up with two children: 1 and 0.
1 contains all the files where the title is the same as desc, 0 all other files.
You can fiddle the variable in the Var Toy, then transfer it to the data-driven category.
This way you can solve almost anything.
Title: Re: Find images with identical entries for title and description
Post by: ben on March 04, 2017, 09:45:30 PM
i finally just wrote a short script.
Easy with iMatch :-)