OK Mat, I get all that. But your response makes me wonder if you got what I was saying. "If you upload files without keywords already embedded in the metadata..." Whatever gave you that idea? I never upload files without the title/caption and keywords attached. I can only work on one image at a time because I need to re-arrange the first five keywords of each image. My problem stemmed from Adobe deleting all my keywords (not the caption) on import (or submission, I can't tell). This is only the second upload after about 1500 images where I have submitted all my images for approval BEFORE taking the time to re-order keywords (and therefore checking that they are right). Therefore, if the keywords were deleted on submission, I would not have noticed this glitch before. This is one image out of 100 or so in which I spotted this problem. What do you think - does Adobe occasionally delete keywords on upload, or more likely on submission? If it's submission, then it might be worth my while to go back through my existing port' to check that the keywords are mine. Since I've seen more than 1500 images go through upload intact, I'm thinking the submission process striped the keywords in this 1 out of 100 files.
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