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?
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Back to the original question, after thinking about this for a couple days I have had two ideas for workarounds:
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Jimbo

I have Elements v10 on my desktop with numerous tags, with the assoicated file structure.
I want to have the same tag structure on my laptop which has elements 12 installed.
to create and save the keyword structure, I did is this;
1. w/in v10 went to key word tags [see above]
2. clicked on the down arrow to the right of the + sign,
3. selected 'save keyword tags to file ...'
4. kept the default option 'Export All Keyword Tags'
5. clicked 'OK'
which of course saved the keyword tags in a file name keyword tags.xml
Oh, by the way, I learned how to do this save from a previous forum question. (see my earlier post).
Am I asking to do something that can't be done? I hope not, because my keyword tag file has > 1100 entries.
By the way, I viewed you suggested option from your previous input above, but I do not have the same view. My view is shown below;
which as you see has the [ Create (down arrow) Share (down arrow) ] at the top
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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.
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I am experiencing difficulties while finding images with keyword tags.
I am using the Organizer of Photoshop Element 12 (French version) and I think I follow the procedure described in “ADOBE ELEMENTS ORGANIZER Help and tutorials” (page 168 in the English version or alternatively 150 in the French one), i.e. :
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Thks
You are right, my problem is to select only the close matches.
Based on your comment, I am afraid it’s one of the recurring problem in PE whatever the version (PE11 or PE12)
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Objet : Finding images with keyword tags in PE 12 Organizer
Finding images with keyword tags in PE 12 Organizer
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