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GordonShock
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November 4, 2022
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Keywords/Tagging inconsistencies

  • November 4, 2022
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Hello,

 

I started a collection with a nice list of keywords so far. For the particular set I am working on if I look at the Windows Explorer where they are located I can see that some photos have keywords, while others have none. For those that do, they have the proper ones while also having some keywords which are not selected in LR.

 

Are keywords saved automatically into the file once it is selected or applied?

 

Perhaps there is a logic here that escapes me, I'm still greenish...

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Correct answer dj_paige

Keywords are saved automatically to the Lightroom Classic catalog (database) file. You can't turn this off.

 

Keywords are optionally saved to photo files (or sidecar .xmp files). To turn on the option, go to Catalog Settings->Metadata and check the box "Automatically write changes to xmp"

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GordonShockAuthor
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November 5, 2022

Checking "Automatically write changes to xmp" applied the proper keywords to all files automatically. Also, the only files that had keywords were the copies created by LR when sending them to PS, none of the original files had keywords, but all do now.

 

Thanks for the help!

GoldingD
GoldingD
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November 4, 2022

 

 

I look at the Windows Explorer where they are located

 

 

Sounds like OP is looking at properties of the original files, this via Windows File Explorer, not via LrC, and finding missing keywords applied in LrC via post editing.

 

And asking, how to fix.

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Oh, and an inquiry to the more informed, if you turn on "Automatically Write Changes Into XMP" will that write the keyword data into the original files, or just the sidecar xmp file?

 

    Sean McCormack
    Community Expert
    Sean McCormackCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 5, 2022

    If it's a Raw, to a sidecar. To rendered files it adds to the original file. Checked by adding the keywords, saving to metadata, Open as Original and check File Info in Ps to confirm. 

     

    Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.
      dj_paige
      dj_paigeCorrect answer
      Legend
      November 4, 2022

      Keywords are saved automatically to the Lightroom Classic catalog (database) file. You can't turn this off.

       

      Keywords are optionally saved to photo files (or sidecar .xmp files). To turn on the option, go to Catalog Settings->Metadata and check the box "Automatically write changes to xmp"

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