Working with Keywords

[csonnic]

Been down sick for the last couple of days and spent my awake time working on keywording all our 17,000 plus images in Bridge.  There's lots of "old" italicized keywords that I want to delete but I believe I need to unnattach them from their respective images, correct?  Strangely, when unselecting an italycized keyword, it also unselects the regular keyword that is the same.  My minimal OCD is kicking in hard on all this!  Is there a way of merging these italicized keywords with the same regular keywords? Is there some sort of "rhythym" I'm missing here? 

[Lumigraphics]

I'd start here. It explains keywords pretty well.

https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/using/keywords-adobe-bridge.html

[csonnic]

Thanks for the link but that doesn't seem to address my issue.  I have old (italicized) keywords that are the same as my new ones.  I want to merge those old ones to the new ones.  Should I Rename the old one and then make it persistant and than select images through that method?  Also, how is one to do a Find on the parent fold and all subfolders?  Only seems to work per folder, at least with the Keyword Find.

[csonnic]

I just found the "Include subfolders" in Find.

[csonnic]

I think I figured it out.  Do a Find on all the old Keywords (Italicized), unselect, reselect with New Keyword and delete old Keyword.  Seems to work.

[csonnic]

Thought it all was working....I maneauvered through all the old Keywords in folders and subfolders, unselected and deleted them only to have them start showing up again as I go through individual folders. Ugh.

[Lumigraphics]

When you select a file, all of its keywords will show up. Persistant or temporary. You have to change them in the actual files.

[csonnic]

Yes, I select all the files with the old keyword, unselect the old keyword, delete it and give all those files the new keyword.

[Lumigraphics]

Purge your cache maybe?

[csonnic]

Thank you.  I jsut tried that.  We'll see if that helps.

[csonnic]

I can see this is going to take more time than I expected.  To delete italicized keywords, it looks like it's required to unselect them from images their attached to first?  Would be nice to be able to delete without having to go through the unselecting part.  With over 17,000 images, it's quite a task for my MBP (M2 at that) to handle the indexing to show all contents of all subfolders.  

[csonnic]

Just found this to be helpful.  https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge-discussions/keywording-issue/m-p/11169795

[Lumigraphics]

You could use EXIFTool or a Bridge script to remove them all and start over. Or use Find to locate every file with a particular keyword and then you could batch change them.