Hey ive looked around some and could not find a definite answer to this question.

Is it possible to filter away search results using a search operator like "-".

Search strings may have boolean operators such as NOT, AND, and OR and may have parenthesized expressions

So im trying this in my album where i have 2 images, both are tagged with "topdrive". one is aslo tagged with "TDX" and the other is tagged with "HPS"

I searching for: topdrive NOT tdx

i would expect to get only the image tagged with both topdrive and hps but instead i get both.

Please check if your seach options are set to "Treat spaces as AND".

Hey, thanks that worked well. However i dont totally understand how it works as it sometimes adds a whole lot of parenthesis and stuff when i press enter. I have the tag suggest plugin enabled if that makes a difference?

could you show exactly what you would type if you were searching for images tagged with "topdrive" but exclude the images tagged with "2d" and "3d". is that possible?

I would try (with space set as AND) something like 'topdrive AND NOT 2d AND NOT 3D"