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NosekTomas
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June 4, 2024
Question

Lightroom offers two "duplicates" of one keyword (face)

  • June 4, 2024
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Hello,
I'm having a problem with Lightroom. When I name people, for one person it gives me 2 "keywords" when there is only one. I don't know why. It goes the same in "faces" and in "keywording tab"...

 

Please why? 

 

Thank you

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    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    June 5, 2024

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    Your screenshot shows you have two keywords named "Snévajs Martin", one at the top level and one with ancestors "Ucitelé < RG PV < Skola < 00000000_A_Osoby":

     

     

    If you search in the Keyword List panel, you should see both.

     

    To merge them into one keyword:

     

    1. In the Keyword List, hover the mouse over the keyword you want to merge and then get rid of.

     

    2. Click the right-arrow that magically appears to the right of the keyword. That will display all the photos with that keyword.

     

    3. Select all those displayed photos.

     

    4. In the Keywording panel, type the name of the keyword you want to keep to add it to the selected photos.

     

    5. In Keyword List, delete the keyword you want to get rid of.

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    NosekTomasAuthor
    Participant
    June 6, 2024

    Thanks for your reply.

    But if you look at the first screenshot (I'm pasting again), you can see that the keyword is only one...But it is offered twice...I don't know why...

     

     

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    June 7, 2024

    Oh, sorry, I missed that screenshot. Try these next steps:

     

    1. In Catalog Settings > Metadata, click the button Clear All Suggestion Lists. (Make a backup of your catalog first, in case this doesn't help and you want to restore the other suggestions for keywords and metadata fields.)

     

    2. If that doesn't help, 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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