Filtering by months, captions etc with Search and Replace
Responding to a forum query about finding images by month, I write this little tip about using the Library Filter in conjunction with the plugin’s Refresh Workflow Filters command.
This menu command Plugin Extras > Refresh Workflow Filters analyses the selected photos and the results can be shown in Library Filter columns:
Notice how Date is standard Lightroom, but Month, Caption*, #Keywords, Keyword chars are generated by the plugin. Not everyone will find all this detail useful, but some might. Here I can see how many keywords I’ve entered, those with 0 or small numbers of keywords telling me I’ve work to do! Personally, I don’t care about the total number of characters of the keywords, but this was requested by someone whose stock agency imposes limits.
Now, as well as showing the months, what I immediately notice is that I can see that 129 images don’t yet have captions. I like to ensure every photo is captioned, so Refresh Workflow Filters is pointing out the exceptions.
Also, I quickly spot “Autumn colours in Mane…” is there twice, which seems odd. So I might change the Library Filter so it has only the Caption* column. In this case I can see that they are genuinely different captions that just happen to start the same.

To prove my point, when reviewing this screenshot I noticed the misspelling “Borrwodale” and could quickly filter the grid to correct it.
In some cases I find typos or errors from this analysis.
Hi,
I loaded latest version (1.63) when LR suggested it. Now I can not start this plugin anymore. Only this bad argument error appears to my screen.
BR,
Tomppa
Plug-in error log for plug-in at: /Users/tomppa/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/PlugIns/findreplace.lrplugin
**** Error 1
An error occurred while attempting to run one of the plug-in’s scripts.
bad argument #3 to ‘?’ (number expected, got boolean)
**** Error 2
The plug-in encountered an error when performing the menu item “&Search, replace, append and transfer”.
bad argument #3 to ‘?’ (number expected, got boolean)
Thanks this is very helpful..
I have another wish for the plugin.
I would like to transfer the recording date (Exif) into my keyword fields.
This works fine at the moment, but the recording time (2019-01-29 16:44:11) will also be added.
How can I realize that only the recording date in format 2019-01-29 will be copied into the keyword field? It would be great if you could do that too.
Thank you Wolfgang