Keywords fail to write to file

[mspiraino]

In Bridge 9.0.0.204, whenever I apply a keyword to several files, one always fails.  Once the other files are keyworded, I can then apply the keyword again and it works fine on the file that failed.  But this means always having to apply the keyword twice to files in the group.  I've tried this with different groups of files, always with the same error.  The files that report the error have nothing in common with each other.  It's not a file size or file type issue, and it doesn't matter whether the group is two files or ten.

[Lumigraphics]

Try resetting your preferences.

Troubleshoot Adobe Bridge for freezes and performance issues

If that doesn't work, test with this script to see what happens. Save it in a text editor as a PLAIN TEXT file (not RTF) with file extension .jsx. Open Preferences->Startup Scripts and click the button to reveal the scripts folder. Drag the .jsx file in and relaunch Bridge. Run that script and see if all selected files have keywords added.

#target bridge

if(BridgeTalk.appName == 'bridge'){

    VT = MenuElement.create('command', 'Keyword Test', 'at the end of Tools');

    }

VT.onSelect = function(){

    keyTest();

    }

function keyTest(){

    var thumbs = app.document.selections;

    var keys = ['Test', 'HTest|Testing', ''];

    if(xmpLib == undefined){

        if(Folder.fs == 'Windows'){

            var pathToLib = Folder.startup.fsName + '/AdobeXMPScript.dll';

            }

        else{

            var pathToLib = Folder.startup.fsName + '/AdobeXMPScript.framework';

            }

        var libfile = new File(pathToLib);

        var xmpLib = new ExternalObject('lib:' + pathToLib);

        }

    try{

        app.synchronousMode = true;

        for(var a in thumbs){

            if(thumbs.hasMetadata){

                for(var b = 0; b < 2; b++){

                    var md = thumbs.metadata;

                    var xmp = new XMPMeta(md.serialize());

                    xmp.appendArrayItem(XMPConst.NS_DC, 'subject', keys, 0,XMPConst.PROP_IS_ARRAY);

                    xmp.appendArrayItem('http://ns.adobe.com/lightroom/1.0/', 'hierarchicalSubject', keys, 0, XMPConst.PROP_IS_ARRAY);

                    var updatedPacket = xmp.serialize(XMPConst.SERIALIZE_OMIT_PACKET_WRAPPER | XMPConst.SERIALIZE_USE_COMPACT_FORMAT);

                    thumbs.metadata = new Metadata(updatedPacket);

                    }

                }

            }

        app.synchronousMode = false;

        }

    catch(e){

        alert(e + e.line);

        }

    }

[Abhishek.Seth · Accepted solution]

Hi mspiraino,

Please let us know if the issue still persists.

Regards,

Abhishek Seth.

[mspiraino]

The script worked for awhile. Now I continue to have the problem. Purging the cache doesn't seem to help

[mspiraino]

Only just had a chance to give this script a try and so far it seems to work