Keywords are Gone

[chrisste]

Hi,

I've been painstakingly assigning keywords to several hundred images the last month in Adobe Bridge 2020 on my Mac (Catalina). Today, when I opened the file to work on more images all the keywords are gone from the panel. Yikes! What do I do?

Thanks for any help.

Chris

[Lumigraphics]

Did you add keywords to individual files or to the list maintained in Bridge? They are not the same thing.

[chrisste]

I added new keywords underneath the list maintained in Bridge. The keywords are still on the files themselves, but the long list is not there. 

[Lumigraphics · Accepted solution]

You have to add them as persistent keywords to Bridge. Try selecting all youtr files then making the keywords you want persistent.
https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/using/keywords-adobe-bridge.html

[chrisste · Accepted solution]

Thanks! That works. Just have to go back to all my files now and mark them as persistent.

[teresaw92373786]

After this happened to me a couple of times, I finally realized I could export the persistent keywords as a list to a text file. Then the next time the keywords mysteriously disappeared from Bridge, I could import them and not spend hours redoing the list. Export is found in the "hamburger" icon (the 3 lines on top of each other), just to the right of the Keyword tab in Bridge.