CS4-Exporting Keywords and other image data

I've been spending quite a bit of time going through my very large image library assigning keywords, filters etc to the images and am surprised to find there doesn't seem to be any file I can backup to preserve all this data.
Next month I will be buying a new Windows 7 system and am hoping all this time I've put in will not be wasted when I transfer CS4 to the new system.
Is all the data (keywords, filters etc) somehow embedded into the images themselves or do I need to back up a file?
I'd really appreciate any help with this.
pg

Pg,
Here is my experience with Bridge in its various guises.
I started with Photoshop 5 entering metadata into my digital collection. I then progressed to PS 6 and 7. Up to this point I had to do it all by hand.
After purchasing the full CS2 package I fell into love with Bridge as I could now setup templates. When managing tens of thousands of files templates made my job a whole lot easier. Bridge CS2 had no problems reading the metadata from my Photoshop files with metadata embedded.
After earlier this year upgrading to CS4 I had no problem viewing and manipulating my metadata. Since the information is embedded in the photos themselves it does not matter what viewer you use. That being said I find it disheartening that Win XP does not recognize my metadata. I suspect that Windows creates cart files to store its info in. Or perhaps in a file within its structure.
So go ahead and upgrade. As long as your metadata is embedded in the file itself you should have no problem. Unless I was just lucky.
Wayne

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Is there a way to export keywords, or comments?
Basically my iPhoto library is getting too big and running slow, so what I want to do is move all of the "older" photos onto an external drive and be able to find the pics using a spotlight search, but not keeping them in iPhoto.
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Problems with Importing / Exporting Keywords and Meta Datas

Hi to all!
I recently upgraded to Aperture 3 and upgraded my referenced library.
Today I opened the Keyword HUD and noticed some keywords splattered in my list, which seem to be any older ones, since the new numbering indicated that they are not applied to any pictures.
So I deleted them.
Than I noticed the <Imported Keywords> folder, opened it, and it contained also a large number of previous keywords. Also they seemed not to be in use, so I also removed them.
Than I locked the Keyword HUD.
Now my question: If I export a version, with the option for 'include metadata' ticked, and edit the version than in Photoshop, and after it, import it back into the Aperture library I do have the problem.
I have tried 'Import Meta Datas' and and click 'Append'. Than it is recognizing the former keywords, which I would appreciate, but not as 'Imported Keywords'.
If I would open the file w/ the External Editor and return it back, I guess I would not have this problem. Usually I do open the referenced RAW file, and import than the edited version back into Aperture. Keywords are stored in the Library, so I would not avail the former given keywords than, is that right?
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Incompatibility issue with imported images losing keywords and other metada

I am reposting this with a more descriptive title in hopes that the powers that be will look into this. This really nice piece of software is currently doubling the time in my workflow by having to re-input keywords, etc. after importing.
Wayne_N
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Registered: Sep 24, 2006
Re: import keywords and ratings into Aperture from adobe apps?
Posted: Nov 18, 2006 2:40 PM in response to: Egg
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I am getting the opposite result. I have lost a lot of my keywords and various other data input in Bridge. Is there a setting I'm missing? I also put in Country name, city, state, contact, etc. in my Brdige metadata, but this is not importing with the RAW files. I am referencing images if that matters, although it shouldn't.
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New! Re: import keywords and ratings into Aperture from adobe apps?
Posted: Nov 18, 2006 3:25 PM in response to: Egg
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I also used Bridge/ACR to rate and add keywords to RAWS (Canon) and also used Adobe DNG converter to make DNG files from these.
No ratings or keywords have imported for any RAWs and DNGs. And, for some DNG files (which I can see in Bridge and iViewMedia), they cannot be displayed in Aperture. It's very strange since I've used the same workflow to create the DNG files over the past year. Some can be imported/viewed, some cannot be viewed. All originally from the same camera/RAW file. I've read in this forum that Aperture cannot read things like keywords from sidecar files.
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Hello,
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