Find photos used in projects (windows only), Find files by media type, Find media files in an album or smart album – Adobe Elements Organizer 9 User Manual
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Finding media files in Elements Organizer
Last updated 9/12/2011
Find photos used in projects (Windows only)
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Do one of the following:
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In the Media Browser, right-click the project and choose Show Project Items In Media Browser. The photos appear
in the Media Browser. This command is useful if you want to edit the captions or make other changes to the photos
in your project.
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Drag the project onto the find bar to display the photos in the Media Browser.
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Choose Find
> By History > Used In Projects. A list of projects appears. Double-click an item, or select one or more
items and click
OK to view the media used in the project.
You can also find out whether a photo is used in a project by looking under History in the Properties panel.
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Exclude media files from a search
Find files by media type
You can choose to view just one type of media file in the Media Browser. When you select a media type, you can
perform other searches that look only for the type of media you want. If you want to search by media type along with
one or more other search criteria, use the Find
> By Details (Metadata) command.
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In the Media Browser, choose Find
> By Media Type, and then choose one of the following options:
Photos
Displays just photos.
Video
Displays thumbnails of video clips (the first frame of the video clip is shown).
Audio
Displays audio clips.
Projects
Displays projects you made using previous versions of Elements
Organizer.
Displays PDF files.
Items With Audio Captions
Displays photos and projects to which you’ve attached audio captions.
The files of the selected media type appear in the Media Browser.
More Help topics
Exclude media files from a search
Find media files in an album or smart album
If you want to search in an album for one or more additional search criteria, use the Find
> By Details (Metadata)
command. Otherwise, follow these steps:
1 In the Media Browser, do one of the following:
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Drag an album or smart album icon onto the find bar.
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Right-click/control-click an album or smart album icon and choose Find Items In [album name].
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Choose Find
> Items Not In Any Album to find photos not used in any albums.