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Keywords keep being re-applied

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December 20, 2021
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Mac 10.4.6

Brideg Version 11.1.1 185

I have spent ages trying to resolve this by trial and error and online research.

I delete a keyword by unticking the shown keyword, the image previews with the unwanted keyword disappear. In the metadata filter panel the unwanted keyword disappears, so far soo good, however, after shutting down Bridge and then re-opening it, the deleted keyword reappears in the keyword list and filter panel.

Any ideas why deleting the keyword is not honoured by Brideg please?

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Erik Bloodaxe

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Another issue is that keywords and hierarchical keywords are written to different metadata fields and clearing one set does not seem to clear the other. I once created a real mess for myself over this and had to resort to using the well known exif tool by Phil Harvey to clear out the field which was causing my issue.

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Nick WalkerAuthor

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I hope this doesn't happen to me! I am re-keywording 4300 images. I am beginning to think that I should stay well clear of Adobe Bridge and stick to Photo Mechanic, which I have been using for many years and hasn't caused any issues.

Bridge is superior to PM (only offers a find, and find and replace tools) for the task I am currently working on as it offers a keyword 'filter' list to easily identify any typos or superflous keywords, and a keywords list to deselect or apply keywords.

At least I have found out by trial and error that turning off 'Read Hierarchical Keywords' stops Other Keywords | being added to the chosen keyword.

Erik Bloodaxe

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I think the symbol you are seeing is there because you must have "Write Hierarchical Keywords" set in your Bridge Keywords Preferences. It's a delimiter between Hierarchical Keywords. Personally I find such keywords a complete pain and do not have that feature set.

"Atomatically Apply Parent Kewords" is extremely useful however.

Take Lumigraphics advice and study the help pages in some detail. Having a clear understanding of keywording is a real boon.

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Lumigraphics

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Each use case is different. For my day job (product work) using Hierarchical Keywords is a must. Regular keywords would not work for my needs.

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Nick WalkerAuthor

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Hi Lumigraphics,

Thanks for taking the time to reply and Adobe Link, I will take look.

Erik Bloodaxe

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I hope that I understand you.

~~Unticking~~ a keyword will remove it from the images you have selected. It does not delete the keyword from your keyword list so it may therefore reappear in the filter panel if you have other images selected with that keyword assigned. You can delete keywords from your list by right clicking and choosing to delete but then that does not remove this keyword from any images to which it has been assigned. When selecting such images, the keyword will then appear under "Other Keywords" in italics at the bottom of the keywords list.

Hope that helps in some way.

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Nick WalkerAuthor

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Hi Erik,

Thank you for taking the time to reply and advice. One last question, I simply donlt understand Adobe's logic of prefixing 'Added Keyword' I, to a new keyword e.g. Other Keywords | Toyota World Match Play Championship 1997.

I don't require the annoying and irrelevant (for me and esp from a picture reserchers point of view) 'Other Keywords |' - all I require is the keyword to be applied!

Is thare a way of applying a keyword from the keywords panel list - not metadata panel using the pencil icon method - to add a keyword without adding 'Other Keywords |'?

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Lumigraphics

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There are two types of keywords. Persistent keywords are actually added to Bridge's list. Other keywords are assigned to files but NOT persistent.

As long as a keyword is assigned to any file in a particular folder, you will see it in Other keywords.

https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/using/keywords-adobe-bridge.html

I recommend looking at the help pages, they have a lot of useful information.

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