keyword search not working in LR

Question

Just reset preferences on LR. Keyword search does not work like it should. when i type in a keyword it should populate that keyword underneith the search bar. also, this morning i was doing some searches off the main drop down that shows ALL the keywords and now the drop down looks like this. not sure exactly what i did but things are definetly wonky with this feature. keyword search does work when im using the library filter at top of screen.

johnrellis · Accepted Answer

thansk John

sent you a message with file. thanks Owen

The keywords in the catalog you sent were indeed corrupted, in a way that I hadn't seen before. I sent you a Dropbox link to a corrected copy of the .lrcat file. It's surely a bug in LR that corrupted the keywords, though no one has been able to figure out a way to reproduce the bug so Adobe could fix it.

Be sure to make a backup copy of the current catalog, then replace it's .lrcat with the corrected one and delete the Helper.lrdata file (all while LR is not running, of course).

There were many keywords containing commas, e.g. "apple, crates". LR doesn't allow commas, but it doesn't always check to prevent them. The commas in your keywords probably came from photos that you imported after they were modified by programs or services that don't conform with industry metadata standards.

I don't know for a fact that the presence of these commas in your keywords caused the corrupted keywords, but there's a strong possibility they did. So in the corrected catalog I sent you, keywords containing commas, e.g. "apple, creates", were replaced with multiple keywords, e.g. "apple" and "crates".

Before doing more "real" work with the correct catalog, I recommend you poke around the keywords and tagged faces, making sure the keywords are what you expect and appear to be working correctly.

johnrellis · Answer

@owenpga2, try deleting the Helper.lrdata folder:

a) Do Catalog Settings > General > Show to open Finder / File Explorer on the current catalog folder.
b) Exit LR.
c) In that folder, delete the folder "<catalog> Helper.lrdata".
d) Restart LR, and it will rebuild the folder.

The Helper.lrdata folder caches information about metadata, keywords, folders, collections, and other things to speed the performance of LR and it can sometimes get corrupted. In recent versions, LR has used it more heavily to improve the speed of displaying metadata, and there have been a fair number of bugs with it.

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