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Curioso
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August 17, 2018
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Bridge fails to forget the old structure of keywords.

  • August 17, 2018
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Hello.

I have a problem with Bridge and keywords.

I've changed the structure of my collection of key words and while I initially deleted all the words contained in the files, now when I assign a word that already existed previously shown me the new structure, and the old structure in italics.

I guess that Bridge has a cache file stored somewhere but do not find it.

I do not mean to Adobe Bridge file keywords.xml located in AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Bridge CC 2018. This contains the current structure.

Some idea of where you can walk that cache file? Because don't think Bridge say that clears the key words of the files but then do so not? It's another possibility.

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Correct answer Stephen Marsh

If you have cleared the old keyword structure from your images and it was no longer in the keywords panel….but now it is now visible in italics under other as a “non-persistent” keyword, then I would guess that it is still in at least one file that has been browsed (even if you think it has been removed).

Try this, browse to another location where there are no images that contain this keyword. Delete the other keywords that should not be there. Quit and restart Bridge if you like to ensure that the non-persistent keywords are still missing. Then browse to the various images that contain you new keyword structure. Do the non-persistent keywords reappear?

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Friendly_powerB839
Friendly_powerB839
Participant
September 26, 2018

We are having the same problem and I followed the above answer and it didn't help.

What happened was that we had a structure of:

A

- AB

- AC

- AD

And then we decided to make AB it's own top keyword with other keywords

AB

- ABA

- ABB

- ABC

- ABD

The problem is that we have one image that every time we set a keyword of AB, it automatically rebuilds the old structure in addition to having the new structure.  We've even removed all keywords from that one file, restarted the entire computer, but as soon we select AB from the keywords, it rebuilds the old A keyword and it's sub keywords and checks that AB as well.  (Yes, they old tree is italicized.)

I've also checked the keywords XML file and the old tree doesn't show up at all.

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 26, 2018

Try removing the document metadata using both of these scripts or ExifTool commands listed in the link below and then see if the problem file behaves:

Re: dc:subject and lr:hierarchicalSubject keywords out of Synch

Friendly_powerB839
Friendly_powerB839
Participant
October 1, 2018

Thanks Stephen.  That was perfect!  The problem was in the hierarchy and I used the exiftool to clean up the problem.

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Stephen MarshCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
August 18, 2018

If you have cleared the old keyword structure from your images and it was no longer in the keywords panel….but now it is now visible in italics under other as a “non-persistent” keyword, then I would guess that it is still in at least one file that has been browsed (even if you think it has been removed).

Try this, browse to another location where there are no images that contain this keyword. Delete the other keywords that should not be there. Quit and restart Bridge if you like to ensure that the non-persistent keywords are still missing. Then browse to the various images that contain you new keyword structure. Do the non-persistent keywords reappear?

C
CuriosoAuthor
Known Participant
August 22, 2018

Hi.

Thank you very much!

It seems that the problem was that some files kept the words with the old structure. As you commented, they had not been erased at all.

I selected all the images (enough) removed the old structure and put the new, but didn't leave time to Bridge to remove the old structure before putting the new and therefore the duplicate.

It will be a matter of taking it more calmly.

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