Searching for itens *not marked* as Favorite

[lopelisoli]

Hi, I have a question about the behavior of the favorite: search flag. I went to https://demo.photoprism.app and performed the following steps:

1. I picked a picture and marked it as a Favorite (using the 'heart' icon).

2. In the search bar, I typed favorite:true. As expected, the image I marked as a Favorite is shown, while most others (not marked) are hidden.

3. Now I changed the search bar to favorite:false. Instead of seeing only images not marked Favorite, PhotoPrism seems to show all images - effectively ignoring the favorite:false flag.

Is this behavior expected? If so, how can I search for images not marked as Favorite?

[graciousgrey]

At the moment it is only possible to search for favorite:yes or favorite:true 👉 https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/search/filters/#filter-reference

We do have an open feature request for a not operator, just no resources yet to implement it.

[lopelisoli]

Thank you for the clarification, @graciousgrey! I guess I was expecting favorite:false to be similar to private:false - which works as expected, even without the not operator.

[lastzero]

Probably because it defaults to public:true in this special case.

[lopelisoli]

Ah, that makes sense! To check, I went back to https://demo.photoprism.app and tried to search for private:foo - and sure enough, the results were again equivalent to public:true.

Thanks for the explanation @lastzero. I'll wait for the NOT operator.