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RowFH-65
RowFH-65
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January 12, 2022
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Cannot remove or edit Keyword

  • January 12, 2022
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I have added keywords to photos over the last couple of years.  Now I am wanting to edit a keyword. 

 

As per other suggestions to similar questions in this Community, I tried using the "Find" utility, which was fine to identify all the photos across 130 albums with that keyword, but it was clumsy to change the Keyword because for some reason not all photos would allow the old keyword to be removed at all let alone add the new one, which meant I ended up manually going through all the changed photos to find the ones that hadn't changed.

 

When I changed the next keyword I decided it would only be marginally longer to work album by album manually bulk select the old keyword then change it to the new keyword.  However, I'm STILL getting photos that will not let me make ANY changes to ANY keywords.

 

I have learned that if I shorten the file description (some of them do run long to cover names, locations etc, (but that was how long it was when I added the keywords in the first place) - yes I know that is a duplicate of the keywords to have the same information in the description, but some of the people I'm sharing the photos with are technophobes that need to read the details in the filename!), however, the length of the file description doesn't seem to have any bearing on which photos will/won't let me change the keywords as there are photos with longer file names that DID let me change the keywords.

Is there some other property I am not aware of that is impacting the change of keywords please!


Rowena

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Lumigraphics
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January 12, 2022

More.Information.

Operating system, Bridge version, type of files, storage location, how are you replacing keywords.

RowFH-65
RowFH-65Author
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January 12, 2022

All the files are jpg photos.  They all formatted with no issues originally, the ones I'm looking at right now I added Keywords to in 2019.  They're all stored in one folder on my PC.  It's a solid-state drive, so much more stable than my previous drive, so that surely shouldn't be an issue and I had that changed over a year ago now anyway. 

 

Originally I selected all the files from the Find tool and clicked on the new Keyword, waited until they'd all (except for the ones that wouldn't) processed, then I de-selected the "old" Keyword.  The second time I did the same process, but from Folder view ie selecting all files, adding the new Keyword, then de-selecting the old one.

 

With those that it brings the error message up for, I've made a note of them and when all the above processes have completed, I've gone directly to that photo and tried to shorten the file description.  Sometimes it only needs 1-2 characters being removed. 

 

My issue is that the file name was that long when the originally Keywords were added, but also that sometimes there are LONGER file names that had no problem wiht my adding/de-selecting process above.  Most of the files that have been thrown up I have been able to deal with, but some just will not let me change any Keyword!  It's very frustrating!

 

However, as per your advice, I'll go through and see if there is a Windows/Adobe update due that I haven't done... I'm sure Windows did one recently, but I'll check 🙂

Rowena

RowFH-65
RowFH-65Author
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January 12, 2022

There isn't any Windows update and I checked for Adobe updates, there was one for some bugs from the last major update.  I've installed that now, but it made no difference to my problem.

 

Rowena

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