Hierarchy in keywords

[Timo31395880hsfw]

Hi, 

I work with two Computers / Installations and Accounts. 

And one shows a hirachiy the other does not. Support of Excire tells me this is native beahaviour of Lightroom as soon as Keywords and Tags are within a different hirachy. Can anyone tell me what to do to get rid of this hirachy within Lightroom Classic.  See the XMP shows nothing which I could identify as a reason that the behavior of both installations is differently showing the Tags. 

Where can I adjust this in Lightroom Classic to NOT show the hirachy. You see the difference on the last two pictures. Best Regards Timo 

[JohanElzenga]

Lightroom Classic stores the hierarchy in the catalog, not in the image metadata. So to remove the keyword hierarchy, you will have to do this in the keyword list of the Library module. 

[Timo31395880hsfw]

Hi Johan, 

Thanks for your answer - please can you provide screenshot where I find this adjustment in Lightroom. I can t find such check box within catalog. 

[JohanElzenga]

There is no checkbox or adjustment. If only things were that simple... What you need to do is expand your Keyword List in the right panel of the Library module, and drag the subkeywords out of their parent keywords one by one, so this will be quite tedious.

If you have too many keywords to make this an option, then you could create a new catalog:

1: Go to 'All Photographs' and make sure you do not have any active filters.

2: If you use stacks* then expand all stacks.

3: Select all images and use 'Metadata - Write Metadata to files'.

4: Create a new catalog and import all images. Just add them to the catalog, do not copy or move them during import.

5: Now you should have a catalog with all the keywords as flat keywords; no hierarchy.

* Unfortunately, writing metadata to files does not save all catalog features to xmp. You will lose stacks, collections, smart collections, virtual copies, publishing services. So ask yourself if this is worth it!