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Tags problem

Started by Golani in HoudahSpot Support: I am a new user and just encountered a problem I hope someone can assist me with. I had a ton of old tags so I simply deleted them all and have added back some new ones. Unfortunately, it doesn't...
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Using .csv & converted .gpx files to automatic geotag photo's

Started by Martijnonthemove in HoudahGeo Support: Hi, I'm trying to geotag my photo's using a .csv file but only the first and the last of the 5 photo's I've uploaded are tagged correctly. Later I've converted the .csv file using HoudahGPS...
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Feature Request: Toggle Search Pane with keybord key

Started by OmarKN in HoudahSpot Support: Hey and good day, I set up a "Recent viewed documents" template and I can access it with a macro. Additionally, I want to hide the Search Pane with keybord key, so the...
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International Dates

Started by Richard in Photos Workbench Support: I have pictures from Australia, but in Photos they showed Dallas time. Fixing this always seems hard, but I just changed the location to Sydney, and the sun is up at noon again! All the dates and...
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With HS 5.1.4... the RESULT of SEARCH appears about 10 scds... then... disappears about 3 scds... etc... again & again repetitively

Started by wes8 in HoudahSpot Support: July 31, 2025 (Sorry for my very bad English) Hi... Everybody,... After performing a search in HS 5.1.4 ...., not always but often,… the RESULT of the SEARCH : - Appears during about...
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Icon in menu bar mac os 26

Started by ffjxc in Tembo Support: Has anyone lost the icon in your menu bar after installing mac os 26? Mine is gone & no matter what I do take it out of login at startup, toggle tembo helper it will not appear. If...
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Set HoudahSpot so window doesn't open on Mac startup

Started by robgendreau in HoudahSpot Support: What setting do I need to toggle so that HoudahSpot's window does NOT open every time my Mac starts up?
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ACTprinter MAC not working with IPad

Started by nic59 in letZi, ACTPrinter, Sudoku Uno/Duo, …: Hello, my Problem is that ACTprinter is working fine with my IPhone but not with my IPad. All devices are in the same network. On the IOS devices the Version 5.1.2 (14373) is installed, OS...
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HoudahGeo fails to load photos from photo library (Mac osx apple photos)

Started by xienixs in HoudahGeo Support: I am exploring the possibility of using houdahgeo to correct thousands of photos of which I sometimes do not have geo information available. When using the Media Browser I easily see all...
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Mail plugin for Sequoia?

Started by rocklobster in HoudahSpot Support: Is there still a mail plugin with version 6.5.6 and MacOS 15.5 ? Or did Apple kill access again? I see no way to install it via HS > Settings > Extensions. (not in System or 3rd...
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Interpolate locations from time surrounding photos

Started by xienixs in Photos Workbench Support: Is it possible to estimate locations using time nearby photos? I don't have GPX track files that could potentially do this...
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Feature request - OpenStreetMap maps

Started by Phill in HoudahGeo Support: I use HoudahGeo for geocoding photos taken on mountain walks and the Apple maps are next to useless for showing paths and terrain. I'd love to see an option an option to use OpenStreetMap for the...
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Search Results Disappear

Started by deryk in HoudahSpot Support: Hello, I've used Houdahspot for a handful of search tasks over the past few years. As a researcher writing literature reviews, I really like that you can search inside of PDFs and get snippets of...
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Please ask Apple to restore HoudahSpot's ability to search Apple Mail

Started by Ward in HoudahSpot Support: There has been ongoing discussion here about HoudahSpot's inability to search Apple Mail in recent releases of macOS. I'm opening this new topic to call attention to a FAQ on HoudahSpot's...
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translation of ‘Content Kind’ in the French interface?

Started by semfind in HoudahSpot Support: Good evening, What is the translation of ‘Content Kind’ in the French interface? More generally, with a French version of the system (macOS Ventura 13.7.5), is it possible to have an English...
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when Kind = Image, nothing is found

Started by OmarKN in HoudahSpot Support: Hey and good day, How can this be? (when Kind = Image nothing is found) When set to jpg = good. Any assistance will be much appreciated, OmarKN - - - scroll down all the...
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Just upgraded to Sonoma. Where is Houdah Spot extension for Mac Mail 16?

Started by rvmeush in HoudahSpot Support: After upgrading to Mac OS Sonoma, I'm not finding the previous Houdah Spot extention (plugin?) that I had before. How do I reinstall the extension to let Houdah Spot search Mac Mail?
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Help Needed – Unable to Index eM Client Emails in HoudahSpot

Started by lpreihs in HoudahSpot Support: Hello everyone, I recently switched from Apple Mail to eM Client, hoping it would resolve some issues I had with email management. Unfortunately, I still can't index or search my emails in...
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kMDKeyphraseLabels

Started by gilby in HoudahSpot Support: macOS now has kMDItemKeyphraseLabels and kMDItemKeyphraseConfidences metadata for PDFs and other document formats. I am not sure when these were added to macOS, but are present in macOS 15.3.1. We...
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System Library only? Help me!

Started by Richard in Photos Workbench Support: I've been stabbed! I OK'd the new version only to find it doesn't work! Shouldn't the statement about not upgrading have been big with exclamation points all around it? What am I to...
Photos Workbench Support 2 0 58 1738034205
Can search results in Quick Look be visualised?

Started by OmarKN in HoudahSpot Support: macOS 14.7.1 HS 6.4.1 Hey and good day, Can search strings (words) which are found in Quick Look be marked or visualised, so they can be discovered easily? As for now with my HS settings,...
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Searches don't find plist files in Sequoia 15.2

Started by gilby in HoudahSpot Support: I think this is a change in Sequoia relating to files in ~/Library/Preferences. I am running macOS 15.2. This file exists:...
HoudahSpot Support 2 0 141 1734557227
Why isn't HoudahSpot working?

Started by mejabrey in HoudahSpot Support: I've been using HoudahSpot for several years, and it has been brilliant at locating files. However, since recently upgrading my iMac IOS to Sequoia [151.1, I have noticed that HoudahSpot is failing...
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HoudahGeo gobbling up disk space

Started by Pingle in HoudahGeo Support: I have about 40GB of images from a month in Europe. I just went through them with HoudahGeo adding location and altitude. I update the images using EXIF/XMP Export. I notice that every...
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In need of old software driver/software wbt-201 wintec GPS

Started by dannyg in HoudahGeo Support: Hi everybody, if you could please indulge me, I really need the drivers and software for Windows machine as I have two of these units that I would love to get back into action. Silicone Labs no...
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Photos Workbench for iOS, please?

Started by silverlaker39 in Photos Workbench Support: Is there any possibility we'll see Photos Workbench for iOS? I really like using it on the Mac and much more than Photomator. Would love to see it ported so I can use it on my iPad. Thank...
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Feature request - Extrapolate location?

Started by EdwardD20 in HoudahGeo Support: I have a bunch of aerial photography and a GPS logger. The GPS logger lost its signal for about 3 minutes while I was taking photos. I was able to tag the photo's before and after the signal loss but...
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2 questions about Advanced Uses of the Search Field

Started by ionah in HoudahSpot Support: I was wondering: Whats the difference between the attributes: contains , content and intext ? I tried to consider diacritics with this: ...
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Suggestions for locations to add for broadest searching?

Started by chazzo in HoudahSpot Support: Can anyone please suggest specific locations to add to my standard search template to ensure the broadest possible search across my main disk (which is already at the top of my locations...
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HoudahSpot crashes after update to version 6.5.2

Started by Corplinguist in HoudahSpot Support: I'm not sure if it's something on my end, but I just updated the application to version 6.5.2 and every time I try to search for a file, HoudahSpot hangs and eventually stops responding. Activity...
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Prevent Auto-Zoom when More than One Image is Selected in Process Panel

Started by Peter_J in HoudahGeo Support: Is it possible to prevent HG from automatically zooming in to show only 'selected image location pins' when more than one image is selected in the 'Process' panel? I would like to set a map zoom...
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moved library to external disk - projects no longer contain referenced photos

Started by bins in HoudahGeo Support: I recently moved my photos library from my MacBook Air M1 to an external ssd disk, made an alias to it in the Pictures folder, but my old (and recent) projects no longer contain the referenced...
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How can I exclude "~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary" from a search

Started by jandubois in HoudahSpot Support: I wanted to search all pictures, including ~/Pictures, but not the photos from the Photos app. The file chooser dialog didn't let me select the "~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary",...
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Trying to use Houdah Spot to find things on iCloud

Started by VictoriaJZ in HoudahSpot Support: How do I do this = I just tested by searching for something unique using HoudahSpot and did not turn up this pdf on my iCloud == is it because I need to force Spotlight to index iCloud? Or...
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HoudahSpot refine criterions doesn't work on server

Started by blablablazhik in HoudahSpot Support: Hello! I have such an issue. I'm working with server. When I search files on the server the HoudahSpot sees everything (including kind info and others) and can search by name. But, if I set up...
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Grid View Default

Started by ham in HoudahSpot Support: Can I set Grid View as my default for search results? Everytime I should change the list to grid.😐
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Tag colours missing

Started by David_Edge in HoudahSpot Support: Almost all of my tagged files are highlighted in grey, which is odd because my tags have a variety of colours in Finder and if I save a search and open it in finder the colours appear. Any...
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HoudahSpot 5.1.7 & Sonoma 14.1: "Enable HoudahSpot Helper"

Started by pdgalaxy in HoudahSpot Support: Hi, I just upgraded to Sonoma and turned on "Enable HoudahSpot Helper" and the magnifying glass icon displays for a split second in the menu bar and disappears. About 8...
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Captions, Keywords, Titles-- help please!

Started by Richard in Photos Workbench Support: I use Photos Workbench to attach sensible titles to my pictures in Photos that help keep them organized. It works great! But the iPhone and iPad ignore titles and keywords and only show...
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Change Date and Time?

Started by KeithRB in Photos Workbench Support: Other than Geocoding, is there a way to change the date and time on an image? The standard Photos method is unintuitive to say the least.
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Jpg icons don't show image

Started by Judy_Murdoch in HoudahSpot Support: I've been organizing my image files by tagging them. Previously when I used HoudahSpot I would view the jpg files as a grid and each icon showed a preview of the image (rather than the generic jpg...
HoudahSpot Support 1 0 67 1696367348
Cursor Focus

Started by tway in HoudahSpot Support: I want my Default Template to open with the cursor blinking in the first field of Refine rather than the topmost search box. I had it working that way before but I just moved to a new computer, moved...
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MacOS Ventura mail not working extension not installing

Started by santhoshr in HoudahSpot Support: tried multiple times to install apple mail extension, did not work
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FileMaker Pro file contents

Started by Kazoiks in Tembo Support: Is there any way to search the text contents of FileMake Pro files? If not, please consider this a feature request! Using Tembo 3.0.2. My six-year old version of FileMaker is 16.0.5 but its...
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Apple Mail Ignored

Started by sperkins in HoudahSpot Support: Running HoudahSpot 6.3 (Build 813), Ventura 13.4.1. Two months ago searching for Apple Mail sent or received on a particular date captured the messages. Now that search produces no emails, even...
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Setting GPS location by dragging iPhone photo from Photos app...

Started by DrRoot in HoudahGeo Support: Hi, I mostly take an iPhone photo at the same location I take photos with my DSLR and other cameras. Using HoudahGeo it would be very convenient if I could drag an iPhone photo...
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Houdah spot search is not working at all

Started by subrata2000 in HoudahSpot Support: It doesn't matter what I search for, all I see is a "Searching ...." in the interface, and nothing comes up. I am running on a MacBook M2 Pro on Ventura 13.3.1.
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Grid View Default

Started by ham in HoudahSpot Support: Can I set Grid View as my default for search results?
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Houdah STILL failing over and over and over — please FIX!!

Started by Jamesnlond in HoudahSpot Support: About 10 months ago I was trying so hard to find some solutions on here — and being told over and over that it was all an indexing problem on my end, despite repeated indexing — that in...
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How to do something similar to Saved Search Folders in Finder for HoudahSpot?

Started by OmarKN in HoudahSpot Support: Greetings and good day, Similar to Saved Search Folders in Finder (or Smart Folders) → how to set an icon of a specific HoudahSpot Search Template - if not into the left Finder column - then at...
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