What is a Quickfilter / Quick Filter and will it help me with my problem?

I see Quickfilter/Quick Filter mentioned in posts, but after searching this forum and the online manual, I still don't know what or where it is. A search in Preferences yields no results.
I am also mystified by evaluator / evaluator columns also and the online manual seems to have evaluator info in bits and pieces all over.

The reason I am trying to figure this out is that I use Filters (Find > Utility Pane) a lot, but many don't work well and/or take ages to yield results. Right now, I am working with about 60,000 JPG files.

I keep trying to find a reliable way to find photos without an EXIF DateTimeOriginal (I have ExifTool Custom columns installed and it is working). If I use use the filter to look for photos with 'NO Match' to EXIF DateTimeOriginal before today (also tried after 1900-01-01), I get many results that DO have an EXIF DateTimeOriginal and then it stops after finding only 2 of the roughly 5000 photos without an EXIF DateTimeOriginal that I KNOW are in the collection.

If I display the EXIF DateTimeOriginal column and sort by EXIF DateTimeOriginal, I wait and wait and the blue circle keeps spinning...and spinning...I waited an hour earlier this morning and the blue circle was still spinning.

This is not a new problem. I have been frustrated about identifying photos without an EXIF DateTimeOriginal for 2 years.

So, I am wondering if Quick Filters and/or Evaluator might be a solution.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Filter Bar contains all you need to know. At least for the moment :slight_smile:

The filter bar is a small text field that pops up at the bottom of the file display, and makes it easy to quickly filter the current file list.

Its focus is the file display, while Find takes care of the rest of the universe.

Opus 13.4 has just introduced the power of Find and the Evaluator to the file display (which is very cool), but it doesn't assist much in your endeavor to find the right files.

So Quick filter is the Filter Bar? That is a revelation!

Element of toolbar that is type of Label and has Field Type of Filter.