Lighttable, How to see all images from folders with some name "%aaa%

Software darktable
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Hi.

My folder structure is as follows:

  • \pictures
  • \pictures\years
  • \pictures\years\events - these folders contain pictures

I have many folders where events are “Velo - ***”.
*** means the second part of the folder name, e.g. Niedzica or Czorsztyn.
So in the end we have e.g. \pictures\2024\Velo - Niedzica.

I would like to filter all photos so that I can see only all photos where the folder name is Velo - Niedzica (e.g.).

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In the “collections” module, select as filmroll something like
“\pictures\2024\Velo - " : the "” acts as a wildcard to select all directories where the name starts with "Velo - " (unfortunately, in this case only for the year 2024). I’m not sure if you can use a second wildcard in place of “2024”.

Another approach is to add keywords. I find that an easier way to set up somewhat more complex searches.

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I found solution.

  1. Set collection as folder
  2. Type path z:\pictures%\Velo% - this gives a content of all Velo beginning folders
  3. or type z:\pictures%\Velo - nnn% here nnn is name of specific event
    Thank You

Please note - between pictures and % it should be \ .
I don’t know why it is automaticly deleted by forum automation.

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\ is treated as a special character.

Enclose paths and such between ` characters, or several lines with special characters between 3 such backticks:

`this\could\be\a\path`

this\could\be\a\path

```
This is a code block. 
It has multiple lines. 
They can contain \ characters.
```

This is a code block. 
It has multiple lines. 
They can contain \ characters.
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Another approach can be filter by date:

image

assuming that your events happened in different days.