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marcop65148434
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April 5, 2020
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Removing orphans person names from the autocomplete

  • April 5, 2020
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After having assigned a number of faces name on person section, I had to rename a lot of them adding the surname to avoid homonyms. No problem in renaming, but now the old version of names (without the surname) conitnues to appear in the drop down list when assining new names and it is very annoying and can generate easily errors. How can I get rid of all those orphan names.

I already canceled all of them from the keywords tag, but they are stiil in dropdown list!

 

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Correct answer johnrellis

This bug was fixed in LR 9.2. Troubleshooting steps:

 

1. Do the menu command Help > System Info and verify you are indeed running 9.2.  If not, do Help > Updates.

 

2. Do Catalog Settings > Metadata > Clear All Suggestion Lists.

 

3. In the catalog folder (do Catalog Settings > General > Show),  delete the file <catalog>Helper.lrdata. Be careful not to delete the <catalog>.lrcat file!!!

 

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johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
April 6, 2020

OK, thanks, that information helps others.

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RatleyRambler
Inspiring
November 30, 2021

Hi,

I have exctly the same problem and I tried the steps as given but it hasn't worked. I also tried closing Adobe Lightroom Classic before deleting the helper.lrdata file. No luck, the orphan names keep coming back 😞

 

Anyone got any other suggestions?

Thanks

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    RatleyRambler
    Inspiring
    November 1, 2022

    I think I have finally fixed this;

    1) Do Catalog Settings > Metadata > Clear All Suggestion Lists.

    2) In the catalog folder (do Catalog Settings > General > Show),  delete the file <catalog>Helper.lrdata.

    3) Do Metadata > Purge Unused Keywords

    4) Close and Restart Lightroom

     

    Purge Unused Keywords didn't seem to work without doing the other steps first.

      johnrellis
      johnrellis
      Legend
      April 6, 2020

      Good. Which step solved the problem, 2) Clear All Suggestion Lists or 3) Deleting Helper.lrdata?

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      marcop65148434Author
      Participant
      April 6, 2020
      I did both.
      johnrellis
      johnrellisCorrect answer
      Legend
      April 5, 2020

      This bug was fixed in LR 9.2. Troubleshooting steps:

       

      1. Do the menu command Help > System Info and verify you are indeed running 9.2.  If not, do Help > Updates.

       

      2. Do Catalog Settings > Metadata > Clear All Suggestion Lists.

       

      3. In the catalog folder (do Catalog Settings > General > Show),  delete the file <catalog>Helper.lrdata. Be careful not to delete the <catalog>.lrcat file!!!

       

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      marcop65148434Author
      Participant
      April 6, 2020
      It worked!
      Thanks

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