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Keyword phrases don’t stay intact

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
August 18, 2020
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This has always happened when creating keyword phrases with all versions of LR Classic and all OS versions.

When I type a keyword phrase followed by a comma and hit enter, the phrase breaks into its individual words. Empire State Building becomes Building, Empire, State. However, when I put quote marks around the phrase, it remains intact.

This is a now a big problem because I have a project involving long keyword lists with phrases created outside of LR that I need to copy and paste into LR.

Now using LR Classic 9.4 and Mac Catalina 10.15.4

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RichardP

Participant

This is so obvious that I hesitate to suggest it, but have you by any chance got Preferences to seperate keywords by spaces rather than commas?

GoldingD

Legend

Please post your System Information as Lightroom Classic (LrC) reports it. In LrC click on Help, then System Info, then Copy. Past that information into a reply. Please present all information from first line down to and including Plug-in Info. Info after Plug-in info can be cut as that is just so much dead space to us non-Techs.

GoldingD

Legend

You are talking about a keyword tag?

markr82473664Author

Participant

Yes.

GoldingD

Legend

Try giving an image a new keyword phrase involving words never ever used in any catalog on your computer, just make something up, does the issue repeat?

markr82473664Author

Participant

Unfortunately that doesn't make a difference.

GoldingD

Legend

Not having that prroblem.

If I give a image say

Yosemite National Park

That is exactly what I get, not National, Park, Yosemite

Ian Lyons

Community Expert

>When I type a keyword phrase followed by a comma and hit enter, the phrase breaks into its individual words. Empire State Building becomes Building, Empire, State.

Using above example from OP, the original phrase is retained. I see no evidence that the phase has been split into individual keywords. Also, and like Johan, I have been using multi word keywords since it was possible to add keywords.

markr82473664Author

Participant

Ian, did you misread my post?

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

I don't know about copy and paste of lists, but if I type a keyword phrase, then that phrase remains intact. I use lots of keywords that contain multiple words.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

cmgap

Community Expert

Not sure if this is helpful but when you add quotes when keywording you are nesting:

Put Inside "[keyword]"

(Available if an existing keyword is selected when you create a keyword) Nests the new keyword under the selected keyword so that it is contained by the higher-level keyword.

You'll find the full explanation here: https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/keywords.html

And this may be helpful too... https://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2020/03/working-with-keywords-in-lightroom-classic.html