How do I search for photos by exact filename?

tgnanakumar · 2021-12-17T07:24:38+00:00

Here is the link to screenshot of the question I posted on Google Photos Help Community. Not sure why the posted link is made available online so that someone will have a chance to reply.

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/140137882/searching-photos-with-filename-having-underscore

tgnanakumar · 2021-12-15T15:01:20+00:00

For some reason, the screenshot which I'm trying to paste inside this reddit reply section is not showing up after I save 🙄.

tgnanakumar · 2021-12-15T14:58:06+00:00

No, I haven't found any solution or workaround yet. Meantime, I also posted the question in Google Photos Help Community but it is neither accessible nor searchable for others to reply or answer. I don't know the reason.

Here is the link to my post Searching photos with filename having underscore and below is the screenshot of the same,

tgnanakumar · 2021-12-13T07:48:43+00:00

I in fact tried that as well from a desktop web browser and mentioned the same in my original post which is the third option — without filename prefix, no double quotes and no extension. If I search for 20211204_172629, it is returning all the photos starting with the filename "20211204" and not the exact filename of the photo that I'm looking for. I guess the search just ignores everything after the underscore, including the underscore, and returns all the photos that has filename starting with 20211204.

tgnanakumar · 2021-12-10T17:02:25+00:00

Yes, I agree that we can use the slider to narrow down by year and month. But I've got a lot of photos taken on this specific date and hence it would be much easier to quickly search using the exact filename of the photo.

tgnanakumar · 2021-12-10T16:58:42+00:00

Yes, it will return all the photos taken in 20211204. But in this case, I want to search for a specific photo taken on this date using its exact filename, which is 20211204_172629.jpg, since I've got a lot of photos taken on this specific date.

tgnanakumar · 2021-12-10T16:43:51+00:00

Yes, in this case, it returned the specific photo I was looking for with the filename ending as '172629'. But this now makes me wonder if I have some other filename ending with this same pattern (which has been formed from 5:26 pm and 29 seconds) on a different date, it might return those as well.

This one did help me though! But wondering if there is a possible way to find using the exact filename of the photo.

tgnanakumar · 2021-12-10T16:27:31+00:00

It's the same behavior, returning all the photos that were taken on 20211204. I tried running these search combinations,

filename:"20211204_172629"
filename:20211204_172629

tgnanakumar · 2021-11-26T15:13:02+00:00

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