by Jeff Goldberg

Ever visit Danita’s web site to retrieve an image that you’ve found in a previous search, only to be unable to find it?

Sure, it happens – but it doesn’t have to.

Keep in mind that there are hundreds of routine and successful searches every day on Danita’s web site. Perhaps once a day, though, a photo researcher or editor enters an image filename or partial filename into the search engine and it spits back, “Image could not be found.”

“Image could not be found? I just looked at the ##*%@% thing yesterday!”

Here’s why this happens:

Our search engine can’t process partial filenames or filenames with periods, underscores or extensions such as “jpg” or “tiff.” You might use the keywords “Texas and flag” to find image “US44_DGU0049_L.jpg.” But if you return later to Danita’s site to download the comp or high-res version of the file, and enter this filename into the search engine, you’ll get the “Image could not be found" message.

There are four ways to avoid this problem:

1) If using the search box, strip out the underscore, the period and the file extension from the filename. Searching for “US44 DGU0049” or “us44 dgu0049” brings you straight to the image you want. Both parts of the filename are required, with one space between the parts.

2) Repeat the original keyword search – it’s inefficient, but it works.

3) Save an image to a lightbox the first time you view it. You must be a registered user to access the lightbox feature.

4) Record the image’s filename and Email us at Danita@DanitaDelimont.com requesting a link to a lightbox with the image.

Remember, to retrieve images by filename, follow Danita’s golden rule: filenames are “2letters2numbers1space3letters4numbers”.

For further information or site help, call 425 562-1543 or Email us at Jeffg@DanitaDelimont.com