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march52368065
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March 7, 2024
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Keyworded images in Lightroom - Searched in Bridge

  • March 7, 2024
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Hi,

 

I have been using Lightroom as a catalogue to keyword and quickly find/view images. These keywords are only written to the catalogue and not to the actual image metadata.

 

I would like to be able to use Bridge to search by keyword and quickly find/view these images.

 

I have tried using the dropdown in Lightroom (see screenshot), this assigns the keywords to the image metadata. However, I can't search for the image by keyword in bridge until I have opened that specific folder/image in Bridge. Once opened I am able to search and view by keyword.

 

The issue is I have a over 10k images that are in various folders that I need to quickly access in Bridge via keywords. Is there a more time efficient way to assign the keywords from the Lightroom catalogue to the images and view in Bridge without manually opening each file in Bridge.

 

I hope this makes sense and appreciate any ideas.

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    gary_sc
    Community Expert
    gary_scCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 7, 2024

    Please, which LR are you using: Lightroom Desktop or Lightroom Classic?

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    march52368065Author
    Participant
    March 7, 2024

    Classic

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    march52368065Author
    Participant
    March 8, 2024

    No, no, no, no. Do NOT put the catalog on iCloud drive, this is not supported and WILL blow up on you. Local catalog storage only!!!!!


    Haha. Well it hasn't blown up on me yet, but it isn't working well and perhaps that it. I can't think of any other way of doing it so I can access it from home though. 

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    Lumigraphics
    Legend
    March 7, 2024

    Assign all the keywords and export in LR. Use View->Show items from subfolders in Bridge to display everything and wait until the Bridge cache is build anfd everything indexed.

    Be aware that there are bugs between dc:subject and lr:hierarchicalSubject (where keywords are stored) so only use one app or the other to make changes to keywords. Otherwise you can end up with a huge mess.

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