Aperture not recognizing keywords for smart album

Friends,
I've set up a smart album that contains images with a particular keyword. The smart album contains family pictures and I use it for my screensaver. I've done this for several years without incident.
Today, I noticed that the album only contained about six images (instead of the hundreds it previously contained). Baffled, I looked to see if the images that used to be in the smart album, but no longer were, still have the magic keyword. They do. If I add the keyword to an image again, it will be included in the smart album. However, there are hundreds of images with the keyword that the smart album is not picking up.
I'm running Ap3 with all updates.
Have any of you experienced this? I've repaired the library to no avail, and I'm currently rebuilding the library. Any other ideas?
Thanks!
Steve

DC Steve wrote:
Friends,
I've set up a smart album that contains images with a particular keyword. The smart album contains family pictures and I use it for my screensaver. I've done this for several years without incident.
Today, I noticed that the album only contained about six images (instead of the hundreds it previously contained). Baffled, I looked to see if the images that used to be in the smart album, but no longer were, still have the magic keyword. They do. If I add the keyword to an image again, it will be included in the smart album. However, there are hundreds of images with the keyword that the smart album is not picking up.
I'm running Ap3 with all updates.
Have any of you experienced this? I've repaired the library to no avail, and I'm currently rebuilding the library. Any other ideas?
Thanks!
Steve
I have had this happen. And, while I'm not sure why it happens, I've found that if you select "text" from within the smart album filter and enter your magic keyword, all works as it should. Totally baffled by the why's behind this issue.
Hope this helps!
Best,
CD

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