P: Please add advanced keywords - controlled vocabulary

In Lightroom (not LRc) in the keyword list that appears wehn using search filtet I would like to

(1) Delete a key word and have that keyword deleted from all images using that keyword.

(2) Change a key word and have all instances of that keyword changed.

Yes, one can filter to a keyword and display the results. Then select all the images and delete a keyword or add a revised keyword and delete the old keyword. 

Please please include a way to manage keywords.

Honestly, this is so basic.  

- List available keywords in a printable / copyable format

- delete / modify existing keywords

While it's possible to add keywords in Lightroom ecosystem, the capability is truely a Minimal Viable Feature.    

Adding and maintaining any rich set of keywords is Lightroom ecosystem is a fools errand IMHO (so says this fool, but no longer - I have now punted back to classic as my primary catalog for this reason after 3 years of trying to make the ecosystem work using catalogs and existing functionality - it does not).   

i do enjoy the new, tech features that are being added to Lightroom, but without the bread and butter features a photographer needs, the ecosystem is becoming increasingly irrelevant to me.  

I want to copy and paste the keywords of the Metadata panel to other apps but this is impossible in Lightroom. You can only export as txt or csv (slow method and convoluted) or copy the tags but only in the "enter Keywords" section . This does not work for me as it includes the top hierarchy tags. I would need those tags without the hierarchy top tags. I could get those in "will export" but then in this view the panel is greyed out and you cannot copy the tags.

This is well thought. They will export panel should be able to be copied like the enter keywords or even better let us choose if we want or do not want to see the upper hierarchy tags in the enter tags one.

Right now my only choice is to keep doing this with Photo Mechanic which I have to say is so much more intuitive than LR in many ways, the keywording being one of them.....

The keyword list option in LR is another anachronic horrible implemented feature in LR that is convoluted but this is another thing that does not relate to this post.

I also would really appreciate if the CC/Web/Mobile versions were to gain more advanced keyword support.  Keywords are core to my organization in Lightroom, and without them I can't make much use of anything other than LR Classic.

If CC supported hierarchical keywords, I could shift to using Classic on my workstation and CC/Web on my laptop or tablet, which would be perfect.

I have about 45k photos occupying half a terrabyte of space and I'm trying to get them organised. I used to use Apple Aperture but migrated across a few years ago so you can imagine the mess.

I'm set up with Lightroom and my 1TB of storage so I shouldn't have to worry about syncing and can use mobile or web if needed. To print I just do "Edit in Photoshop" and print from there. It seems like it should be easy.

Alas I'm finding the implementation of Keywords in Lightroom absolutely terrible! For starters it is case sensitive with no protections on creating near duplicates so it is really easy to create multiple versions of the same keyword. I have a few hundred images tagged with "Dry Plate" and/or "dry plate". Plus may typos and other things in the keywords it suggests.

There appears to be no ability to merge keywords or edit the keyword list. (I believe this exists in Lightroom Classic.) Neither can I delete "dry plate" from multiple images simultaneously. So I can't select all those images, tag them with "Dry Plate" and delete the "dry plate" tag.

I could migrate to Lightroom Classic but that looks like a complete pain. I'd have to buy more local storage for starters. 

Any suggestions?

I'm pretty disappointed because I believed Lightroom would have caught up with Lightoom Classic a lot more by now. I've been subscribing for years and it just hasn't happened. This is feeling like the last straw and that I should look for an laternative to Adobe. If I have to go to the bother of migrating to Classic and buying myself and external drive to do simple keywording then I may as well migrate to something else that I don't have to pay a subscription for.

I can't believe I am saying this but after my experiences today Lightroom just doesn't feel like it is fit for purpose as a tool to curated large collections of images. Maybe classic is but the new version certainly isn't. Please show me otherwise!!!

• use LR Classic on my Macs as it's the only app of the two with professional features (like batch processing with various 3rd party plugins)
• use LR Classic's Synced Collections to have selected photos of my mine available on-the-go on an iPad, iPhone and LR Web
• use LR Mobile on iPad to review my photos from time-to-time and occasionally present my photos face-to-face
• use LR Mobile on iPhone to have my important selected photos available to me on my pocket all the time