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1101947
Inspiring
August 9, 2017
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Lightroom creates keywords duplicates

  • August 9, 2017
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Hello, dear Lightroom experts!

I'm using Lightroom for a long time. The catalog I'm working now I was previously used on Mac (current version of LR CC).

Now I switched to Lightroom CC 2015.12 on Windows10. In this catalog I have a large amount of keywords in strong hierarchy.

When I add new photos to existing folder (of courese, using LR interface, not moving files in OS file manager), I then sync keywords with existing photos, using Sync Metadata button in Library module. Previosly this worked very fine, I had the same keywords on old and new photos.

But now, when I use this scenario, I'm getting duplictes of some (not all) keywords. The duplicates has it's own hierarchy, it is the same as original.

I also tried to copy old photo's keywords fromkeywording pane and past it to the keywording pane for a new photo whith the same result (keywords are duplicted in the keyword list). Also I tried to copy metadata with Metadata menu with the same result. When the copy metadata window appears, there are not all kewords in the keyword field.

I don'tknow if it matters, but my keyword list is in Russian.

Does anyone have the same issue?

May be any thoughts?

Thank You for Your attention.

    Correct answer 1101947

    I have found the reason myself. The problem is because of using Cyrilic characters in keywords (I've told earlier, they are in Russian). After renaming keywords with Latin characters metadata synchronisation works fine. It is Lightroom bug. I don't know exactly is it new or Windows-specific. This catalog was created in Lightroom for Mac in 2014 and metadata syncronisation with Cyrilic worked normaly until april-2017. Earlier I worked with Win-based Lightroom using Russian keywords and never had problems. It would be interesting if someone could test this issue with other non-Latin characters on different platforms. I hope this information will help anybody.

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    1101947
    1101947AuthorCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    August 10, 2017

    I have found the reason myself. The problem is because of using Cyrilic characters in keywords (I've told earlier, they are in Russian). After renaming keywords with Latin characters metadata synchronisation works fine. It is Lightroom bug. I don't know exactly is it new or Windows-specific. This catalog was created in Lightroom for Mac in 2014 and metadata syncronisation with Cyrilic worked normaly until april-2017. Earlier I worked with Win-based Lightroom using Russian keywords and never had problems. It would be interesting if someone could test this issue with other non-Latin characters on different platforms. I hope this information will help anybody.

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    August 16, 2017

    Please file a bug report in the official Adobe feedback forum, where Adobe wants all bugs and feedback posted: Photoshop Lightroom | Photoshop Family Customer Community . If you post an extact step-by-step recipe for reproducing the bug, then Adobe is much more likely to fix it.  In general, without such a detailed recipe, they usually don't take the time to investigate.

    dj_paige
    dj_paige
    Legend
    August 9, 2017

    Show us a screen capture of the problem.

    1101947
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    Inspiring
    August 9, 2017

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