Keyword Import Format

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August 30, 2023
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Are there characters that are not allowed or length limits to keywords when trying to import from a file?

I have a list of the Birds of the World in .TXT format.

I've tried cutting down the 10K+ entries and it will import but if I try to import the entire file I keep getting a "Corrupt Data" error.

Any ideas?

Windows

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RochambeauxAuthor

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Apparently you can't edit your own posts..

I figured this out - commas are not allowed anywhere in the file you are importing to LR.

Dashes, paranthesis, etc are fine just no commas.

johnrellis

Legend

Right, commas aren't allowed in keywords in general. Bugs in older versions of LR sometimes allowed keywords containing commas to be created, but those have been fixed.

Beware that the Keyword List panel and the Metadata browser's Keywords column can only display about 1500 lines. So if you try to display, say, 10K keywords, LR will misbehave without warning. The solution is to use hierarchical keywords and keep most of the hierarchy collapsed. (I assume your Birds Of The World file defines a detailed hierarchy.)

RochambeauxAuthor

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Thanks - The hierarchy problem is the challenge. Any existing Bird lists in that format are pretty dated. I've found some old infromation on "transforming" XML Bird Lists to LR format but they involve the use of programs that are even more dated and or not available.

https://github.com/rsjaffe/IOC-Bird-List-Lightroom-Keyword-Generator

https://saxon.sourceforge.net/

Manually converting these files to that hierarchy format is just too painful to undertake.

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