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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
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
Thanks! That works. Just have to go back to all my files now and mark them as persistent.
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Did you add keywords to individual files or to the list maintained in Bridge? They are not the same thing.
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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.
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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
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Thanks! That works. Just have to go back to all my files now and mark them as persistent.
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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.