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robtmccann
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February 22, 2020
Question

Can keywords be stored in cloud?

  • February 22, 2020
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Well, I just lost all the keywords from my ten plus years of shooting digital cameras. Auto-Update deleted old versions this last round,and along with it all my workspaces and keywords. The workspaces were easy enough to redo, took about twenty minutes tops. But the keywords will never be redone. People, places, project titles, client info, all gone. No, I don't have this as a backup as none of my backup drives have the requisite folders. Of course this is entirely my fault, compounded by my niave trust that Adobe would give any thought to transferring what is arguably some of the most IMPORTANT information from one update to the next. 

 

So, before I bother moving forward keywording as I have done for years with new image files, is there any means of having this information stored in the cloud so that it will not be deleted by mistake again? If not, I will not bother doing any keywording at all.

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Legend
February 23, 2020

You didn't lose anything. All of the keywords are still in your files.

 

I have a new script that I'll be releasing in the future as an update to my Utility Script Pack. You can also simply select all of your existing files, and then convert all the temporary keywords to persistent. Google for Adobe Help pages on this topic.

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 22, 2020

You posted in another topic covering how to retrieve and recreate the keywords from image files:

 

How to recover my lost keywords in Bridge

 

The following topic was also linked in that topic thread:

 

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2016/11/bridge-restoring-lost-keyword-xml-file.html

 

Automated file system scripts or 3rd party apps could be used to automatically copy the Adobe Bridge Keywords.xml file to various local or cloud storage backups.