Aperture 3.13 Keywords

Just updated to 3.13 and it looks like keywords are broken. I used to be able to select a bunch of photos then click and drag a keyword on which would effect all of them. In 3.13 now it only apprears to be applied to one of the photos
Anybody know how to apply a keyword to a whole load of photos at once in 3.13???
Alex

And the sensible response is: idiocy and ignorance are best not conflated.  We are all ignorant, just not about the same things.  Unfortunately, our diction tends to lump stupidity and ignorance together.  Perhaps "I feel like a novice" is more apt and less asp.
At the same time, in my experience, when I am not getting the results I expect from a computer, I try to exhaust all possibilities of error on my part prior to concluding that the software or hardware is malfunctioning.
Cheers. 

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  • Aperture Adds Strange Keywords

    Hello,
    I have imported about 20 iPhoto libraries into Aperture 3.  Many of these have keywords assigned in iPhoto and they appear correctly as keywords in Aperture.  Aperture adds other keywords such as iPhoto Original, etc. which I understand.  However, there are cases in which Aperture has also added one of its Project titles to a photo's keyword list (these were not keywords in the iPhoto images).  If I open the Aperture keyword list these are in it but  they are not in the Filter HUD keyword list.  What is going on here?  I am wondering if the Aperture library is corrupted and I need to restore from the Vault backup which I think was made before I noticed this problem.  The iPhoto libraries seem to work fine but could they be a problem (Aperture uses iPhoto Event titles as Project titles)?
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    Mike

    Hello Leonie,
    Thank you for your response.
    Yes, I did mean Keyword HUD, sorry.  If I examine the Keyword HUD and the Keyword Filter with all photos in the library selected, the oddball added keywords appear in the HUD but not the filter.
    Thanks for the tip on hierarchical  keyword categories.  I tried that with Library Manager but when they were shared among all my libraries the structure I set up was lost.  I plan to use this feature in Aperture once my library is complete.
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    Does anyone have any information regarding any changes or enhancements in the way that Aperture 2 handles keywords. Have there been any upgrades with this feature. For example, I have frequently wanted to be able to conduct an hierarchal keyword search, i.e. to be able to search on a top level keyword and find photos that are included beneath that keyword.

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  • Aperture 3 and Keywords

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    I can recommend you the online help, here the chapter about keyword handling:
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    That should certainly work.
    I just tested with my library and added the keyword 'Wout van Aert'.
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    Close Aperture, if it’s open.
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    DC Steve wrote:
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    Kirby,
    Thanks for the reply. Sorry. My post was sort of long. I wanted to be sure to give the full story so that people were not replying with things like "Did you restart your computer?" "Did you repair your database?".
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    This sounds like you are accidentally dragging your Keywords to a different level/parent in your Keyword HUD.  Is that possible?  The proper way to cancel a drag-and-drop operation is to press "{Escape}".
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    Where are you seeing these groups?  What do you mean by "group"?  The same Keyword can exist at different levels of your Keyword hierarchy ("Black" is not the same as "Colors➞Black"; each can be separately assigned and will have a number independent of the other).
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    What groups?  Do you mean Parents with children Keywords?  How do you know the children are missing?  Do they return?
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  • Another Aperture and iPhoto problem i am having

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