HOW TO REMOVE REMOVE ALL KEWORDS FROM A FULL FOLDER OF JPEG FILE

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HelloI have "kewords" in the metadata of my pjeg files coming from the days of using Picasa!  When I moved to PSE, I did not select them at import time, and therefore they do appear in my keywords structure I manage under PSE... So far so good.Recently I decided to copy the metadata (PSE ctrl W) to my files and to install Bridge.Bad news, all the keywords (old and new) sit together and make a mess . PSE "crtl W" do not erase existing keywords but just add the new ones.The simplest thing would be to remove all the tags and do the "crtl W" again...  But in Bridge I did not find a way to do that in batch mode but only file by file ... with 50000 photos a batch solution would be welcome (even working at folder level woul be acceptable).Does this function exist ? I could not find it in the user guide. Thanks for your help Alain

Erik Bloodaxe · Accepted Answer

I did a little investigation within Bridge.

I presume that your images contain different keywords which I thought initally presented a problem but here is a workaround:

In Bridge select a bunch of images.

In the Metadata Panel under Keywords you will probably see (Multiple Values), unless all of the selected images contain precisely the same set of keywords - unlikely.

Click in the Keywords box and enter a single, random keyword.

Click on one of your selected images and confirm that you wish to Apply metadata changes. All of the assigned keywords will then be replaced by the single random one you chose.

Now repeat this only this time you will be able to delete the single keyword simply because all the images now have the exact same keyword assignment.

This repetition is necessary as it seems impossible to do this when the selected images contain different keywords - you can't delete (Multiple Values).

Voila, no keywords!

Erik Bloodaxe · Answer

One possible method is to use Bridge's Export Panel. There you can create a preset to export your files without metadata - there are various options depending upon what you wish to keep and what you don't. Other solutions, outside of Bridge, include using Exif Tool though you will need someone else to chip in to explain how to do that as it is not something I am too familiar with.

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