Nowegian letters Æ, Ø and Å as first letter in keywords fails

Question

I have a problem with LRC, not recognizing the Norwegian letters Æ, Ø and Å in the beginning of a keyword. These letters are common in Norwegian, and some words have them as the first letter, also among my keywords.

For instance, the name “Øyerfjellet”, the name of a region in the nearby mountains. Taking lots of pictures there and tagging them with the name is normal for me, I’ve done that a lot. This works well, if I use small first letters, avoiding capital first letter in the filter, even if it is written with a capital letter in the list.

Lately filtering the keyword list to this word, or any word starting with one of these three letters fails, the word can not be found. If I skip writing the first letter in the filter, only writing “yerfjellet”, the keyword is found. If the letter is within the word, there is no problem finding it in the list. In Word and other windows apps, searching for these letters is without any problems.

A solution to this would be appreciated!

My systemem: LRC 13.1, and Windows 11 Home v22H2

johnrellis · Answer

[This post contains formatting and embedded images that don't appear in email. View the post in your Web browser.]

Hmm, on my LR 13.1 / Windows 11, I don't observe that problem:

Some initial troubleshooting steps:

1. How many keywords do you have in your keyword list? (Do the menu command Metadata > Export Keywords and edit the exported file in Excel or Notepad -- the line count appears in the lower-left corner.) If you have more than about 1500 keywords, that could be a problem, considering that the problem letters are alphabetized at the end of the Norwegian alphabet (I think).

2. Try deleting the Helper.lrdata folder:

a) Do Catalog Settings > General > Show to open Finder / File Explorer on the current catalog folder.
b) Exit LR.
c) In that folder, delete the folder "<catalog> Helper.lrdata".
d) Restart LR, and it will rebuild the folder.

The Helper.lrdata folder caches information about metadata, keywords, folders, collections, and other things to speed the performance of LR and it can sometimes get corrupted. In recent versions, LR has used it more heavily to improve the speed of displaying metadata, and there have been a fair number of bugs with it.

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded