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Is anyone smart enough to know how to avoid duplicate sub-keywords?

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August 8, 2023
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Is anyone smart enough to know how to avoid duplicate sub-keywords? I am not. I had made phylogenetic keywords originally, in the form, Diptera (FLIES). I found out, importing to my website, that the proper separation is with commas, and () causes problems. So I decided to rename to Diptera, FLIES,

This is an Order of Insects, and there are Families, Subfamilies and Tribes below this. And there are parents, Arthropods and Insects above. I was first just trying to work on one family of Bee Flies, Bombyllidae, whose format I thus changed. But then I found when I checked one of the subkeywords, the same one in the older one would also check. Likewise with uncheck. I spent hours, trying to view all the subkeywords and starting over, unchecking all the levels but they still came duplicated. that when I then went to the parent keyword Diptera and did the same thing, but it made no difference except creating another duplicate of Bee flies in the new format. Then I selected all the images in the family folder and selected every level and uncheck all the way up to Arthropods. I deleted all levels of duplicate keywords. I I closed and reopened the Bridge and tried again, all to no avail. I had also tried deleting both instances of a subkeyword in the old and new keywords and then putting back in the new and checking. The old came back with all the levels.. I changed the preference to not apply parents, but the subkeyword still duplicates.

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polyxo

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I did not perfectly understand your case – I would advise provoking a dead simple case with apples and pears and leave animal taxonomies away.

Yet, the situation looks to me as if some keyword-swap hadn't worked properly. The keywords in italic are (no longer?) in your keyword list, but seem still to be assigned on file-level. Bridge requires a rigid workflow for deleting or renaming keywords. You need to have absolutely all items that have a keyword-old assigned on screen and selected to perform a keyword deletion that applies both to your keyword list and your files.

This is a mayor difference from programs that use a catalogue, where you may freely rename and delete keywords and this metadata-change will get written back to all files / their database record – whether or not they are visible or selected.

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robirdman1Author

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Based on the link suggesed, I tried something similar. I had an arrangement with an examples such as thus: Arthropods>Insects>Diptera, FLIES,>Acalyptratae>Tephritoidea>Ulidiidae (PICTURE WINGED-FLIES)>Otitinae>Cephalini.

I lready had duplicates of almost all the subfolders in two places from previous parent folder renames, the old ones of which were Diptera , and Diptera (FLIES). So almost all below that was twice duplicated and I wanted to get rid of. I decided to work with all under Acalyptratae, and renamed that "Acalyptrate" and then all the FAMILIES ( end in dae) below it I changed to the comma format, so the example above became Ulidiidae, PICTURE-WINGED FILES. All child levels below that, I renamed with a period after. So Otininae becomes Otininae. .I'd go to a family folder where images are stored, and since Bridge removed the ability to find 'ALL' that it once had, I choose find all images that don't contain 'zzz'. this pulls up everything in the subfolders as well. Then in the folder panel I select a lowest level child keyword, such as Cephalini, and in the keyword panel, check the Cephalini. (with the period), then uncheck all the ones without the period and I can delete that keyword., from the other levels, I go up to the family level and delete that. Once the family was gone, I'd also remove parents above that if they didn't automatically. I would look on the folder panel with all selected and see if there were any old keyword, check them and uncheck in the keyword panel. Several hours of this worked well for quite a few families that didn't come back. It got harder when Acalyptratae would show once in the folder panel but be in 2 different old parent FLY keywords. Earlier, it seemed one check on the folder panel would show all checked in the keywords and I'd uncheck and they'd all be gone. but then I started getting cases where the 2 on the right would show (-) and I'd have to start doing smaller selections of images till I'd get a solid check and then uncheck and get rid of that group. sometimes it would only be one image that would allow a single check. Tedious. But then a stranger thing happened, before I could finish the last families in the group. "Acalyptratae" became uncheckable. Earlier as a parent, anything below would check it, now the non quote Acalyptratae would check when I checked a family or its child instead and if I checked "Acalypratate" the check would go away. Mind boggling, but I got rid of all the extra families and their children of the 25 families in the one subgroup. Not perfect, but I was able to export less cluttered keywords to the metadata file being prepared to re-import into my website.

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robirdman1Author

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You have to open the exported .txt file in Excel.

- Open your .txt file in a spreadsheet using tab delimiters
- Because the .txt file is created as UTF-8, it is best to use the Excel import text wizard to retain
proper character encoding, e.g. ©, 작, ü
- Use import option and select a .txt file to import
- Text Import Wizard
- File origin = 65001- Unicode (UTF-8) or (UTF-16)
- Delimited = Tab
- Finish
- The first row will contain the field names
- Each row below that will contain metadata for a single exported file

You can also find instruction b clicking the"?" button.

You might be able copy and paste columns from Excel and Access tables.

Your Keywords columns are probably going to be quite complex and will need to splitting, filtering, sorting, etc. to clean up. Have you ever tried OpenRefine? it's an amazing tool for cleaning and transforming data. The Cluster and Edit feature would very useful for your work.

You can accomplish a lot in Excel too. I can help with that, if you need it.

Also remember that you'll want to purge and reload your keyword panel list. You might want to start with creating your optimized hierarchical keyword list, then fix your file keywords based on that and then import everything back in.

One last thing...you mentioned using standard commas instead of parentheses (). I would avoid commas, if possible. They are allowed in keywords but, because some photo applications treat commas as separators, they are dangerous. Even in Bridge, you'll see that any keyword phrase containg a comma will be surrounded by quotes which can be confusing.

I was a away for awhile and have returned to try to get back to some kind of order with my keywords. Since Bridge had updated, the script was gone but I got it back. Before I do any more, the status is that I had exported and tried to correct things in the Excel, replacing ( and ) with , . But I created a worse mess in bulk replacement as sometimes the ) was at the end and sometimes it wasn't, so I have an extra multiplicity of commas and even more keywords. You had said that commas were not recommended, though the website accepts and rejects (). So would using | as in an earlier thread post be acceptable? I am so sorry I ruined my well ordered phylogenetic tree and really want to have something clear again that will also be accepted by the site and amenable to google searches. No I have lots like this:

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Hierarchical keywords are designed to peacefully co-exist.

Take for a simple example the parent of "House" or "Car". Both of which can have valid sub-keywords of "Door" or "Window", however selecting the Door sub-keyword in House shouldn't include the Door sub-keyword in Car.

gregreser

Legend

I think I found the problem, or at least I figured out why @Stephen Marsh example works.

If you enable Preferences > Keywords > Options "Write Hierarchical Keywords", the duplicate child keywords can be edited independently.

When "Write Hierarchical Keywords" is selected, the dc:subject is "Test - Car; Test - Car|Door; Test - House; Test - House|Door"

When "Write Hierarchical Keywords" is NOT selected, dc:subject is "Test - House; Door; Test - Car"

I think the problem is that "Door" and "Car" only exist once here and that affects how the Keyword panel edits them. When I delete "Door" under "Test-Car", "Door" under "Test-House" is also deleted. This is not apparent until you click off the thumbnail then click back on refreshing the keyword panel display.

When I re-saved my keywords with "Write Hierarchical Keywords" enabled, I was able to delete the child keywords independently.

gregreser

Legend

I should add that you can't just enable "Write Hierarchical Keywords" and solve the problem if your previous keywords were not saved in that form. The dc:subject (IPTC Core) keywords would have to re-written in hierarchical form which would require re-selecting them in the Keyword Panel or by using a script.

gregreser

Legend

Have a look at this post. It might explain what's going on. I think your case is more difficult to solve because you have a lot of deelpy nested keywords.

Unable to delete identical but re-assigned child-keyword

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