I am sure it used to work but then it means the root cause would be the loss of 
date-added in my items… mmhmmm… I don’t see anything I did that could have had 
that result…

> On 18 Sep 2024, at 10:58, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> That’s correct, the “is today” condition only has a start date for the range, 
> and that always matches for a missing date as I said, and it always did, so 
> this will include the item. So nothing has changed, I think you remember 
> incorrectly.
> 
> Essentially, current;y a missing date is interpreted as “now”. However I have 
> changed this for the next release to be interpreted as “long ago”, which 
> probably is more appropriate. 
> 
> Note that for items added in BibDesk there should never be  a missing 
> date-added, except perhaps for items that were added a very long time ago.
> 
> Christiaan
> 
>> On 18 Sep 2024, at 02:49, Luc Bourhis via Bibdesk-users 
>> <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Here is a screen capture.
>> 
>> <Screenshot 2024-09-18 at 02.48.31.png>
>> 
>>> On 17 Sep 2024, at 16:16, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Are you sure you are talking about the date-added? There has not changed 
>>> anything for many years for this, the filters work just the same as they 
>>> have done since 2006.
>>> 
>>> There was a bug fix in 1.9.4 with the modified-date, where we erroneously 
>>> compared the date-added instead for some functions. Perhaps this is what 
>>> you are thinking of?
>>> 
>>> Apart from that, I don’t see what you describe. What kind of condition do 
>>> you use? When I use a condition with a date range, I see that a missing 
>>> date-added is not included in the smart group. What I see is that a start 
>>> date is always considered true, and an end date is always false when a 
>>> date-added is missing. Tris has always been the case. Perhaps this logic 
>>> may not be the best though.
>>> 
>>> Christiaan
>>> 
>>>> On 17 Sep 2024, at 13:09, Luc Bourhis via Bibdesk-users 
>>>> <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I use Smart Folders with different ranges of date-added. It used to work 
>>>> fine but I have just noticed that Bibdesk 1.9.5 treats missing date-added 
>>>> as matching ones. This might have started in earlier versions: I did not 
>>>> pay attention. By “missing”, I mean that the column “Added” in the central 
>>>> list display has an empty entry.
>>>> 
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>> 
>>>> Luc J Bourhis
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