add filename search as a chip

[akash1810]

This will make it easier to debug errors from s3 watcher.

[mbarton]

Great! I've wanted this for a while

[paperboyo]

Great! I wanted this for... like... 3 years.

More “debugging” chips I say!

[paperboyo]

For the future: this (and maybe all chips) should accept wildcards...

[akash1810]

For the future: this (and maybe all chips) should accept wildcards...

Interesting. Do you have an example where this should apply?

[paperboyo]

I try not to let me sick mind wonder where there are no examples. As with all things search/filter, this applies in the same way to Grid, Open Explorer, Bubbles (@currysoup 👋) and all else. If I would like to appear just a little bit facetious, I would say it wouldn’t exactly hurt to have it in dotcom too. Applies to fields AND to values.

(Baby-syntax for wildcards/broken regex/stupid mix. I don’t care much for which is chosen as long as there is an easily accessible help where I will be learning it all over again every single time.)

• filename:Screen Shot*.png (matches all OSX screenshots)
• filename:_MG*.jpg −has:fileMetadata.icc (finds candidates for straight from Canon JPGs in AdobeRGB)
• filename:\d*tomWimbledon5jul18.jpg (finds recent Tom Jenkins’ shoot)
• filename:.*_modified\..{3,4} OR filename:\1\..{3,4} (finds all occurrences where paperboyo tries to workaround the lack of Versions: originals and modified images; sorted by filename)
• fileMetadata:icc.Profile Description."sRGB*" OR fileMetadata:xmp.photoshop:ICCProfile."sRGB*" (finds all images with whatever crazy flavour of sRGB profile there is)
• fileMetadata:xmp.dc:creator["\d*"] (finds images with any number of Creator entries)
• fileMetadata:exifSub.Lens Specification."*-*" (finds images taken with a zoom lens)
• fileMetadata:xmp.dc.* (finds all images with any Dublin Core properties)

All this combined with filters showing no. of hits next to properties (and an extra free-text filter for entering the property you’re interested in*) should make most librarians blush.

*to explain, imagine:

• a search by:Tom Jenkins and a filter sidebar where for a free-text filter you enter filename:\d*.*.jpg
  (should return a list of shoots sorted by the number of photos in each shoot (provided he is consistent in his naming scheme. And provided someone fixes my baby-regex)
• a search fileMetadata:xmp.dc:creator["\d*"] and a free-text filter containing fileMetadata:xmp.dc:creator* (shows a distribution of Creator entries)

I could go on. How useful any of that would be? How popular? I’m not paid to care seriously for such questions. Luckily.

[paperboyo]

Anecdata-lly, out of all weak signals of photoshoots, filenames are a surprisingly strong one (just look for matching strings where only the numbers differ).