Elements 12; Error Applying Keyword Tag(s)

Elements 12; Getting "Error Applying Keyword Tag(s)" when trying to add a photo to an album

Many threads about that error message:
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For instance:
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"Error Applying Keyword Tag(s)" in PSE 12

When I drag an album name onto an image (or vice versa) in Organizer 12 to add the image to the album I get an error dialog with the message "Error Applying Keyword Tag(s)" and the image is not added to the album. How can I fix this? Thanks.

HI,
I don't think the rename was necessary as I didn't do that - I think it was the creation of a new album that did the trick. It must be a sort of permissions problem.
Glad it is now working for you.
Your can have the beer for me, I'm in the UK and well into my retirement so I probably won't be over there in the near future.
Brian

When I try to assign files to albums, I get the message "error applying keyword tags"

This just started to happen, not sure why. I don't assign or use keywords. It does it on all albums. I made new albums and it did not work, even on the new albums. There was one album that did not have the problem, but when I tried to transfer an afftected album's files to it, it developed the problem. I reset the preferences in both Organizer and Editor, and that did not help. It prevents me from moving files out of as well as into albums. Any ideas on what caused this and what I can do about it? Thanks for any help.

A last try:
- what if you try to move the pictures with the common keyword (no album selected) to a new subfolder via the organizer,
- delete them from the catalog
- delete the catalog itself
- and re-import them ?
There is clearly something wrong with 'normal' or new albums as well in your case.
Your experience shows that the problem is not only in some albums, it's linked to the catalog itself. If you can create a new catalog and reimport the files of your test album and work normally, then you can test that other catalogs are ok. Otherwise, if all catalogs have the same problems, it's linked to the organizer itself, but I doubt it since you have already deleted the organizer prefs (the psa.prf and status in your 'Roaming' folder).
I have found that sometimes, using a newer version of Elements (a trial one if you want) and converting the catalog can solve problems; but on the other hand, PSE12 has new problems with converted catalogs... Also, the backup and restore process probably can't help because the catalog database is just copied, not converted.
What you have done with your test albums means that any meaningful organization is safely stored into the files metadata section, so that you can recover it in other PSE versions, Lightroom, Windows explorer or many organizing softwares. Of course with a large number of albums, that looks like a huge job.

PSE 9 Organizer Error Adding Keyword Tags and Other Woes

Hello, everyone. I am having a ton of problems with PSE 9 Organizer. The most frustrating and biggest problem is that I believe my catalog has been corrupted beyond repair. I spent all of yesterday tagging my photos. I had no problems and everything seemed to be going well until all of the sudden, the organizer suddenly froze up. I had to use the Windows task manager just to get it to close. This happened several times. Finally, the organizer locked up my computer and I had to restart. I opened the catalog and didn't seem to have any problems at that point. I was able to view all of the images, video files etc. I was even able to open the editor from the organizer. When I tried to add a tag to a photo it gave me an error. All it said was "error adding keyword tag" then nothing. I tried to delete the photo and all it said was "error deleting photo". This "error" shows up any time I try to make any changes to all of the images. I can't add any new photos, can't delete, or add tags. I have repaired the catalog several times. It found errors the first time, but evidently that didn't fix my problem. I also optimized and deleted my thumbnail cache to see if that was the issue. Still nothing. I have other catalogs and they work fine, so it is something to do with this particular catalog. Any suggestions on what to do next? Can I move the pictures to a new catalog without losing the tags? And no, I didn't write the tags to the images because I wasn't done tagging. Besides, PSE doesn't always write the tags correctly, as you probably know. Next problem. When I first open PSE and select the organizer, it doesn't alway open. I can see it on my taskbar (Windows 7 64 bit), but I can't get the window to maximize. I have to close and open several times to get the window to open. Sometimes it randomly jumps to my second monitor like it can't decide where to go. Very frustrating. I would appreciate any suggestions about what to do. Thanks.

Back to the original question, after thinking about this for a couple days I have had two ideas for workarounds:
1) Copy my tag names into the photo metadata and create a new catalog to bring all of my images into. This will allow me to keep all of my existing tags, and it MIGHT solve the tag display problem based on a test with a couple images in a new catalog. The downsides to this are a) permanently writes my tags into the photo metadata which will be bad if I decide to change something later, b) loses all version sets, and c) loses all albums (although I don't have that many). I found instructions for this workaround at http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Merging_Catalogs.
2) Live with the lack of color tag display in Organizer, and use reverse searches to find missing tag categories. For example, if I want to find all photos that do not have a "Places" tag, I check the box next to the "Places" category (which also selects all sub-categories and tags below this). Then I go to the Options drop-down in the Find Bar and "Hide best match results" and "Show results that do not match". This gives me every image in my catalog that does not have a tag from the "Places" category, so I can go through and tag these as appropriate.
I would have gone with #1 if it weren't for the permanence of the keywords. I guess I have a commitment problem (or I just haven't got my tag hierarchy figured out yet). Instead, I am going with #2 which should give me most of what I need for now. I will still hold out some small glimmer of hope that Adobe manages a fix for this issue down the road.

Organizer 9 often gets error adding keyword

I spent more than a week evaluating Organizer 9 for my use by playing with a test catalog with several raw photos from various cameras I have. I tried everything I could think of and posted here a few times asking questions. Everything seemed to be working well. I also saw posts saying some people had 100k photos in Organizer. All looked good. I wanted to be fairly confident before importing my 50k out-of-camera original photos and then spending a lot of time on adding keywords and star ratings since I didn't want to waste all that time and work if Organizer would not be a good fit for what I want or didn't work well. All signals were go.
A few days ago I got started on the real catalog. I turned off all the analyze stuff since I don't need it and it was likely to just slow the computer down. I imported about 50k photos. I then started adding keywords. I first made a pass through all photos and assigned a keyword for each photo that had the country or U.S. state where the photo was taken. No problems.
I then started another pass through all the photos adding one or two more keywords to some of the photos. I have been having problems with this though. I often, but not always, get a pop-up window with a message from Organizer saying it got an error adding a keyword to a photo. I click Okay and then Organizer hangs for several seconds and down at the bottom left of the screen it says Searching. Finally Organizer comes back, but now the thumbnail view doesn't show all the photos -- it shows only a subset. I then click Show all and then spend a lot of time scrolling into the 50k photos and looking for where I left off before the error. I then try to assign the keyword to the photo again and get the error again. I click okay again. This time it also says Searching for a few seconds, but when Organizer is ready again this time the thumbnail view has not changed so that is good. I then add the keyword and this time it works. Whenever I get the error the exact same sequence happens exactly like this with no variations:
1. Error adding keyword
2. Long wait with Searching shown in the lower left
3. Thumbnail view changes
4. I click on Show all and scroll down to where I left off
5. Again try to assign the keyword
6, Error adding keyword again
7. Wait with Searching shown in the lower left
8. This time thumbnail view didn't get changed
9. Try to assign keyword again and this time it succeeds
By the way, the error window I get says: Error Applying Keyword Tag(s). It always is this same sequence. Much of the time I get no errors and then I will get one and go through the above sequence. I often can do a few more with no error and then an error again. It seems to be random. Sometimes it might happen 2 or 3 times in a row and sometimes it takes a long time until it happens again.
I repaired the catalog, but it said there were no errors. I also optimized the catalog. Remember that I have just imported the photos and have been adding keywords. I have not actually made much use of the catalog. I have not been deleting or anything else. Just import and add keywords.
Any ideas? Thanks!

photodrawken wrote:
Where are the photos stored?
Where is the catalog located?
Are you running Windows?
How many drives on your computer, and how much free space on each?
Which drive are you using for your PSE scratch disk?
Ken, thanks for your reply.
The photos are on a 1tb USB 2.0 external hd. The catalog is on my computer local C: drive. I am running Win7 64-bit. The C: drive has 151gb free. The external hd has 245gb free. The PSE scratch disk is the default since I haven't changed anything, I suppose that would be the C: drive.
Adding keywords to all photos on the first round worked without problem. Adding one or two additional keywords to some of the photos on my second round works most of the time, but maybe about 20% of the time I get the error. The error always goes away after the above lengthy, very annoying sequence though and I can continue.

Transfer of keyword tags

I have just downloaded Elements 12 using my previous version catalogue of images in Elements 9 however the keyword tags have not come across. How do I transfer them?

prince of cliftomville wrote:
Thanks for your help. Where do I find Michael B’s info from the help Tab. Yes I have upgraded from Elements 9 to 12.
Prince of cliftonville
Here is the link to how to use workspaces.
http://helpx.adobe.com/elements-organizer/using/workspaces.html
You can also download the pdf manual, which makes searching by keywords much easier:
http://helpx.adobe.com/en/pdf/elements-organizer_reference.pdf
Many new ways to work in Organizer since version 11.
- Introduction of the new tabs for people, places and events
- Totally new way to work in folder view
- More advanced 'search by detail'
I think there is a video tut for the new interface... Hope I can find it soon!

How do I save my setup for Photoshop Elements 11 that I created for category - sub-category - Keyword Tags

how do I save my setup for Photoshop Elements 11 that I created for category - sub-category - Keyword Tags I would like to use the setup for other Photoshop Elements

First are you going to use the same keyword/categories hierarchy in the same Elements version (or newer)? If so, using the backup/restore process will also restore your hierarchy.
If you want to create the same hierarchy in an older Elements version, it's possible to save that hierarchy in a special text file and to restore it in the new catalog in the destination computer. It's also possible to restore it in another catalog in the same computer.
Look at the title bar of the keywords panel. Next to the '+' sign on the right, you see a small icon which opens a menu offering the option to save or to restore the text file.

Retrieving missing keyword tags from a previous version of Photoshop Elements

I just purchased an upgraded version of Photoshop Elements 12 and Premiere Elements 12, but after all my photos were converted to the new version, all of my keyword tags from the previous version are not showing. How do I retrieve them?

Thank you so much. I had tried to use both of those buttons, but I didn't know that I had to use them in that order in order for the tags to show up, and I couldn't find the answer in the Adobe help section, either. Looks like all my tags are there and the problem is solved. Thanks again.

Keyword tags on JPG from Photoshop Elements

Hi,
I have just started to use Lightroom and used to use Photoshop Elements for organizing my photos. And in Photoshop element I only put a keyword tag on the JPG file on and not on the RAW file. And after that I "hided" the RAW files in Photoshop elements.
When nI ow is using Lightroom I would like to use the feature that "combines" the RAW and JPG file but Lightroom can't do it because of the keyword tag. Is there a way to get Lightroom to combine the files and add the keyword tags to the RAW file? Or how can I get this to work.
Thanks

I have tried to remove the keyword tag in Lightroom and also remove the pictures in the catalogue. And import them again and now the tools combines the photos. But as I have a lot of these photos I would like not the use this way forward... as I have to tag them again...

Upgraded elements 12 to LR 5: Missing Most Keyword tags

I just upgraded my Elements 12 Catalog to LR 5 catalog on my Windows 7 machine. I followed the instruction listed in the conversion video.
For me the tags are the most important thing I use to Organize my images. I have over 20,000 pictures in my Elements Catalog and each one has at least 1 tag on it. After the conversion, LR tell me there are 13,500 pictures no tags. Furthermore, the tags that survived the upgrade are not linked to all the pictures that they are part of. Ie: In Elements, I have 136 pictures tagged in Venice, Italy. After the upgrade I see only 1 image even though all of the images are still in the present. When I look at the other images that are in that folder and click "Keywording" there are no Keywords listed for those images.
I've tried to reupgrade my Catalog with the same results. I've tried just giving LR time to load everything. I've rebooting my machine and reopening LR in case that would trigger a read of the Keyword database. In each case, everything just remained the same.
How do I recover all my tags? For me the tagging is the most invaluable part of my photo collection and if I don't have my tags in Lightroom then I can't make the switch.

There are increasing number of reports of this happening here in this forum.
I don't have an explanation.
I suggest you submit a bug report: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family
The alternative procedure (which has its own drawbacks), but is at least worth a try, is to have PSE write the tags to all of your photos and then import the photos into Lightroom. You have nothing to lose except a little of your time.

TOAD error : Missing close tag in element Container.

Hi ,
when i try to open TOAD 8.6.1.0 fo oracle data base login ,
It gives the error " Missing close tag in element Container", further i am not able to login and i have to forcefully kill the TOAD session , Please help me in this regard.
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Ashok

Hi;
TOAD is a product from Quest,not from Oracle. It may be better you ask such a question in an appropriate TOAD forum:
http://toadfororacle.com/index.jspa
I totaly agree to Werner . You can post upper related link about your issue, by the way you can use Oracle sql_developer instread of toad.
For more details please check:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/sql_developer/index.html#news
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Elements Organiser 10 in Windows 8 Lost the 'Imported Keyword Tag'

Using Classroom in a book (Elements 10) with Windows 8, I seem to have lost the 'Imported Keyword Tags' in the Keyword Tags Panel whilst struggling in Lesson 2, whilst trying to make sense of the Organiser,

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I have a similar situation. In upgrading from Elements 7 to 11 all my keyword tags are lost; both in the keyword panel and the tags on each of my imported pictures. I didn't install the Elements 11 I had a tech do it when I took my computer in for other issues, so I'm not sure of any of the specific steps taken when this was done. Any way to get these back short of "tagging" each picture again?
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Elements 13 Organizer Keyword Tags Missing

Many (not all) of my keyword tags have gone missing from my Elements 13 organizer. Any suggestions on how to recover them?

Are they listed under Imported Keyword Tags?
Click the small triangle icon to the left of the white check-mark box to expand the list.

Why are there are no checkboxes shown next to my PS Elements Organizer 12 keyword tags?

I'm new to Elements 12, but not to Elements. When I open the Organizer there are no checkboxes shown next to the tree of keyword tags in the Tags/Info panel. I don't see any settings to hide/display these checkboxes, so how do I get them to appear?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Val

here's a screenshot:

Keyword Tags PS Elements 8

How do I stop keyword tags running. I dont want it and it uses too much resource. Can anyone help.

Go to Edit - Preferences - Auto Analyzer (bottom of list) and then deselect everything you can.

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