I downloaded the free version a few days ago and I’m considering the license but I’m having some issues that I’m not sure how to resolve. After watching the video on how to use filters I tried to replicate and had issues:

  1. to find a person on their birthday (using filters for the name and birthday), it completed my name (maybe because I’d already identified myself in various pics) but wouldn’t give me “birthday.” It said “no matching filters”
    So I how do I resolve that? By creating a tag?

  2. I tried to find photos of my husband and myself (as I’d already linked ourselves to several pictures). That worked better BUT it only identified 12 photos when there are hundreds of us together. Now in People view it says some of his photos are hidden because of free limitations - is that the only reason more photos of him don’t come up in filter search? Or do I need to also be doing something else?

  3. Interestingly when playing with filters it autocompleted a tag for “Sandy Joe wed” – I looked at some of the photos and apparently that phrase exists in some photos in the “keywords” part of the file (when looking in photoshop). So I had some questions about filters/tags

  4. Am I correct in that the filter search will find keywords I might have inserted into a photo separately (as in the previous example)?

  5. But it also seems I have the option of creating tags WITHIN tonfotos to help refine future searches? But what about tags I’ve created via Finder (Mac)? It doesn’t seem like this works, but would be so helpful as I created a ton of tags before finding this software. Or perhaps it’s a limitation of the free version?

  6. I did a search for dog using the filter search and this was the weirdest one of all. I have hundreds of photos of my dogs as well as for work and the search pulled up maybe a dozen. How does this get fixed?
    Also, the results pulled up files (but no images) that have NOTHING to do with a dog - examples one was a video of my son (file “hcpiano411” but there is no dog in the video), another is of my husband’s grandfather - file name “FentonAlexmiltary” - again no dog. I attached screenshots of those. Just wondering how to resolve this so the correct items come up.

Thanks so much in advance for clarification and assistance.

    Sandy Hello Sandy, here are my replies:

    1) Correct, in the video Birthday was an album name. You can add files from certain folders to album (or tag) and then add it to the filter, then you will be searching among those files ony.

    2) That should not be the reason. Limitation is affecting number of the people you can work with, but not the amount of photos per person. So this should be somtehing else. Are you sure you accepted all the suggestion that program proposed? I guess those photos were just not accepted yet. They will show in personal album, but will not be shown in filter until you accept.

    4) I am not Photoshop expert so I cannot be 100% sure, but I guess that it stores Keywords in the file metdata and Tonfotos reads them as tags. Tonfotos can use Tags in both search and filters.

    5) This has nothing to do with free version. In Tonfotos we call Tags very specific metadata records that are stored inside image itself. Those are pretty standartized and are well understood by hundreds of other applications. So if you write Tags to file by Tonfotos, other applicaitons will be able to read it, and vice versa. As to Finder tags, this feature is only specific to your computer, and it is not stored in the image itself, it is stored somewhere in Finder’s own database. When you share this file with others, this data will not be transfered with the file, unlike tags stored in metadata. So this aproach is very limited and could not be consiedered as long-term solution for image organizing. Technically we can consider reading tags from Finder too, but so far this is not implemented.

    6) I am not sure what exctly you were using to search for dogs. Tonfots does not have that functionality.

      Thank you for your explanations! I am still having some issues, particularly finding people.

      1. I hadn’t accepted all of them as it was showing a lot of dupes (that’s an issue for another day). I’ve accepted them but still can’t find photos of specific people. Example - my husband is one of the people I have “named” so the system can find all photos of him. It recognized him wonderfully. But when I go to search for him specifically (Command+Option+F because I’m on a Mac) - he’s “Joe Lee Jr.” and I select it and it comes up with only 16 photos of him - mostly dupes of two different photos (mind you this is totally different result than the other day). I tried just typing in “Joe” and it won’t let me do it.

      The screenshots show the search pane and results after I’ve selected “Joe Lee Jr” (the one with the person icon, which should relate to the all the photos in the “person view” pane but instead I get these two photos duplicated. The duplicates are annoying (and somehow seem to be related to apples photos library in some cases but that’s not your issue 😄). However, I’m more concerned on why hundreds of photos aren’t coming up. I’ve confirmed more than 1,000 images (including a lot of duplicates) and I’m up to 19 pics when I search for him -
      This shot shows the results when I type in “Joe” (after doing Command+Option+F and the search results are inconsistent - it was 16 results, now it’s 9 and still dupes

      Second search, totally different results:

      1. Tonfotos DOES seem to read tags from Photoshop metadata - at least in the photos I tested.

      2. Thank you. Good to know. Wish I’d realized finder had worked that way before tagging that way lol.

      3. I used Command+Option+F as in the YouTube video and it gave me several options for “dog” - I just picked the first one and got those results.

        Sandy

        2) Have you tried to scroll up and down? Filter results are split by events, so the number you see is retaled to photos in just one of the events, but there should be more.

        4) Ok, good to know, thank you.

        6) Based on the screenshot, you have tons of tags that have word ‘dog’ in it. That probably came from Photoshop, correct? Going back to your original question - I guess the question should be addressed to the person or program that was adding those tags to images 🙂 However, you can do some cleanup to your tags using Tonfotos, if you want.

          The tags for “dog” - I thought Tonfotos did that but I guess they came from the metadata in the photos. I did not create those tags although yes, some are from Photoshop as some photos are from Thinkstock and similar and show within tags.

          Yes, I’ve scrolled - yesterday when I posted it was literally 19 photos. Now it’s a lot more so maybe the program is catching up (it seems like it’s always doing something when I open it lol) - it just has A LOT of dupes of certain photos (seems to be related to Apple Photos library but I have no clue why - I’d assume this is a Photos issue though)

            17 days later

            This got fixed. It looks like the accepted suggestions were not reflecting but all looks good now. But is it possible to move filter to photos or people view as it is inconvenient to scroll year wise to search a photo, if I don’t remember the year of photo.

              rahul please feel free to post separte thread with this suggestions. We will see if other users will support the idea.

                Write a Reply...