I have about 13K photos organized in Photos. I organize them in albums by year, and then by location / event within those albums. The photo titles and filenames are generally the same, as they end up on my Mac after some preliminary sorting on Windows. This is just muscle memory from doing things this way since the advent of digital photos when I was using PCs for school and work; I appreciate that this workflow is needlessly complicated and generally foolish. But it's the demon I know and whatnot. Besides I believe the sunk cost fallacy doesn't apply to me because I'm special.
Because of this, it's pretty easy to find things by time / event. But I occasionally would like to see every photo of our cats that are no longer with us. When I search for "sushi" a bunch of stuff happens.
1) If I have a photo titled "sushi" and ONLY that, it seems to find it. No issues here
2) If I have a photo of actual sushi or something with the word sushi somewhere in the image, it generally finds that, too. Pretty cool, and what a world that it knows what sushi looks like well enough to find every photo I've taken of sushi since 1999
3) However, and here's where the derp starts... if I have a picture of two of our cats together titled "Sushi, Miso" it WON'T find it. I assume the comma in the title is throwing it off and search is looking for a title that is "sushi" and "sushi" only
4) The numbers in the search results box seem inconsistent with the results shown in the app window at large, presumably because...
5) It appears to be indexing forever
Worth noting perhaps that the photos in "top results" are titled inconsistently. Some of the photos of sushi (the food) are titled "sushi" and some have no title; Photos just recognizes the food as sushi and it's in the results. The top results that include Sushi (the cat, RIP) are all titled "Sushi" but the filenames all have extra nonsense after them based on their respective folders. So I don't think it's searching in the actual filename, which makes sense given how Photos works.
Some of this may be related to indexing being apparently never ending. I rebuilt the library a week ago, have left Photos running since then, and when I search for anything, "Indexing..." is always present, always watching, eternal. It will be indexing at the heat death of the universe, I am sure.
Is there any way to get Photos to finish indexing? Is there anyway I can get search to work the way that "it should"? MacOS search in general does not seem to work this way. I have the rulebook for every tabletop game I own saved on my Mac. If I Spotlight search for "line of sight" it will find every PDF I have with that text string in it, even if it's written as "line of sight,". In that instance, the comma doesn't throw it off. It will even find photos with the words "line of sight" in them, again, even if there's a comma at the end of the string. It's frustrating that searching in Photos seems to work differently than every other place on my Mac...
Because of this, it's pretty easy to find things by time / event. But I occasionally would like to see every photo of our cats that are no longer with us. When I search for "sushi" a bunch of stuff happens.
1) If I have a photo titled "sushi" and ONLY that, it seems to find it. No issues here
2) If I have a photo of actual sushi or something with the word sushi somewhere in the image, it generally finds that, too. Pretty cool, and what a world that it knows what sushi looks like well enough to find every photo I've taken of sushi since 1999
3) However, and here's where the derp starts... if I have a picture of two of our cats together titled "Sushi, Miso" it WON'T find it. I assume the comma in the title is throwing it off and search is looking for a title that is "sushi" and "sushi" only
4) The numbers in the search results box seem inconsistent with the results shown in the app window at large, presumably because...
5) It appears to be indexing forever
Worth noting perhaps that the photos in "top results" are titled inconsistently. Some of the photos of sushi (the food) are titled "sushi" and some have no title; Photos just recognizes the food as sushi and it's in the results. The top results that include Sushi (the cat, RIP) are all titled "Sushi" but the filenames all have extra nonsense after them based on their respective folders. So I don't think it's searching in the actual filename, which makes sense given how Photos works.
Some of this may be related to indexing being apparently never ending. I rebuilt the library a week ago, have left Photos running since then, and when I search for anything, "Indexing..." is always present, always watching, eternal. It will be indexing at the heat death of the universe, I am sure.
Is there any way to get Photos to finish indexing? Is there anyway I can get search to work the way that "it should"? MacOS search in general does not seem to work this way. I have the rulebook for every tabletop game I own saved on my Mac. If I Spotlight search for "line of sight" it will find every PDF I have with that text string in it, even if it's written as "line of sight,". In that instance, the comma doesn't throw it off. It will even find photos with the words "line of sight" in them, again, even if there's a comma at the end of the string. It's frustrating that searching in Photos seems to work differently than every other place on my Mac...
