I have many keywords in hierarchies. I am planning on exporting a collection I have been working on for another to work on. When he is done, I will need to import the collection again to finish the collection. If I export the hierarchies then and again later, will the hierarchies get duplicated? Or do I need to export flat the first time and then hierarchically the second time?
If you export the photos with the Export option Metadata > Write Keywords As Lightroom Hierarchy, the full names of the hierarchical keywords will be recorded in the photos. When you import modified versions of those photos, if those keywords are still present in the files, they will match with your current hierarchy (and you won't get any duplication).
If the other person working on the photos is also using LR, consider exporting the photos as a catalog instead, using File > Export As Catalog. Give that sub-catalog to the other person, who opens it, works on the photos, and then sends it back to you. You can then do File > Import From Another Catalog to bring in the changes the other person made.
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