The Light Developer program provides a 'searching mode' to navigate your photos. Where photos are catalogued by its property instead of file system.
The first time running 'searching mode', you need to specify photo folders where the scanning thread will build the database. After that, the next time you start up, (which means you cannot use it the first time), the Light Developer program will scan the photos in background.
After at least 1 loop of scanning over, you can expand the tree to see the result, based on a database, well sorted by time, tags and GPS location. Obviously, only photos with EXIF can be catalogued and sorted here.
You can also create a new folder under folder 'User defined searching' by clicking on the 'Create new searching catalog' button.
Here is a sample how to use this function. I want to find all photos taken by my Nokia cell/mobile phone, I set like this:
Name: Nokia, Have Exif Data: Yes, Meker keywords:Nokia
Then I need filter out photos in the searching folder Nokia which time after 2012, I build a subfolder under 'Nokia' to inherit the settings and input new:
Name: Recently, Photo Time (EXIF): Range, From 2012-01-01 to 2099-01-01
Inherit is a very important feature for searching based folder. This feature makes it possible to build trees which catalog your photos with time, tag, camera, file name… as flexible as it can. The tree is permanent until you delete it manually. So the searching based folder is actually a virtual folder which gives you a chance to arrange your photos in different way as the physical folder structures.