Keyword List Suddenly Scrambled in LR 5.7

Question

Hi. I have been helped so many times down through the years in this forum and I hope someone can assist me with this situation.

My Keyword List has become scrambled for reasons unknown to me. I have 82,927 photos catalogued in LR and all but 49 of them have keywords. Up until yesterday all my keywords where in 4 main categories, 1-Events, 1-Other, 1-Places and 1-People and they appeared in the order listed at the very top of my Keyword List. As of yesterday the list has become scrambled...

As you can see 1-People is now a subcategory of '11 Ireland Trip. Some subcategories which used to reside in 1-People are now scattered up and down the Keyword List as you can see with 'Family' & 'Friends' in the screenshot above. Another puzzling aspect of all of this is the numbers to the right of the keywords. '11 Ireland Trip at the top of the list has '5' to the right of it. Clicking the triangle to the right of the '5' brings up hundreds of photos none of which have anything to do with '11 Ireland Trip. In fact none of the numbers to the right of the keywords in the list shown above correspond to the number of photos included under that keyword. As an example clicking the triangle to the left of 'Events' in the list above reveals this:

I am not sure what all is going on here. All the keywords appearing under 'Events' here used to reside within 1-Events at the very top of my Keyword List.

Does anyone know what might have taken place here and what I might do about correcting this other than going item by item to get everything in it's rightful place? The entire Keyword List seems to be fragmented for some reason.

My other question is how might I get the 1-People Keyword out from '11 Ireland Trip and back to the top of my Keyword List? Can I just drag it out? I'm hesitant to try because i don't want to somehow mix things up further.

Thank you in advance for any help with this.

-andy

JohanElzenga · Accepted Answer

I can’t explain exactly what went wrong, but it looks like you imported some images that have these keywords assigned to them but not the hierarchy. That can happen if you export an image and then import that exported image again.

The number 5 behind the parent keyword ‘11 Ireland Trip’ means that there are five images that have this parent directly assigned to them. There are lots of other images that have a sub-keyword assigned, but not the parent itself. You will still find these if you click on the arrow behind the keyword, so that explains what you are seeing when you do that.

johnrellis · Answer

I can clear up one source of confusion: The number to the right of a parent keyword (e.g. "Events") is the number of photos that are directly assigned that keyword. The number does not include the photos that have been assigned subkeywords (e.g. "Irish Army"). But when you click on the arrow to the right of a parent keyword ("Events"), LR shows all photos containing that keyword and all contained subkeywords (e.g. "Irish Army").

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