Exporting Keyword sets

Is it possible to export Keyword sets from one computer and import them in Lightroom on another?

Jens,
If I understand you correctly, you're looking for a transfer of the keword sets, and not the keywords present in the list.
The keyword sets are stored in the LR presets folder (on Windows this is "%appdata%\Adobe\Lightroom\Keyword Sets". You can copy them from one computer into the same folder on another computer.
An alternative would be to choose "Store Presets with Catalog", but this has further implications (see here).
Beat

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I've been using CS2 and have a ton of keyword sets built up. I now have CS4 and will be upgrading to CS5 at some point. How can I get those keyword sets out of CS2 and into CS4?

The keyword file is in user/app data/roaming/adobe/bridge or something like that. Belive you can copy and paste.

Keyword and Keyword SETS export option

We REALLY, REALLY need a way to export complete Keyword Sets and Keywords to a file.
I now know, sadly too late, that you can copy the folders from--C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Adobe\Bridge--to someplace safe and get a backup.
But this is hardly intuitive.

Being new to bridge, the inability to export the keyword sets is one of the first most glaring feature omissions I have found.

Keyword Sets - transfer between computers possible?

I have moved my Lightroom data from a PC to a new iMac - all is well except that the keyword sets on the PC have not been transferred to the iMac. Any suggestions on how to do this?
Thanks.

If johnbeardy's suggestion should not work either there is another workaround: export from your old catalog images which are tagged with all keywords (maybe create one such image artificially).
Then import-from-catalog, which will update your keyword list on your new machine with the ones coming along with the image, hierarchy of keywords included.

RE: How to export keywords tied to images

Can someone give me a step by step as to how to export keywords from one computer so that they will be linked to images in an identical folder in another computer? Haven't been able to find a clear answer in this forum.
Thanks.
Tice

Hi Jerome,
I figured out that a change has to be done to load in the configuration, specifically in the Prepare View Stream component.
Have you reviewed my comment on this post?
https://wikis.oracle.com/display/endecainformationdiscovery/Export+View+Configuration
Hope everything is fine on your side :)
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Exporting Data Sets as Files in CS5

Why would CS5 crash every time I try to export Data Sets as files? I have been just doing it in CS2 because of the problem. However, CS2 is acting up for some reason at the moment.
If CS2 where working, as it has in the past, then the exact same sets would export easily from there but not CS5. Is there any way to fix this problem?

Hello,
Yes I am running the latest version, on a mac. The Data Set is moderately sized, about 30 sets with 5 perameters (sorry if that is not exactly what they are usually called). It crashes while the data set is processing. After it saves a couple of files the system crashes. Sometimes it makes it a bit further, but never all the way through a whole set. CS2 is having all sorts of problems for me all of the sudden. I am going to look for my disk to unintstall then reinstall. It can't open files from File/Open and crashes within minutes of opening, even if I'm not doing anything with it yet. The only reason I have it is to run the Data Sets so I just hope I can find my install disk.
Thanks for any help!

Export Data Sets as jpgs?

Is there a way to export data sets as jpgs instead of psd? The whole point is fast file creation and having a folder full of new psds which I then have to convert to jpg is kinda a silly step. Am I missing something?

I think because of the way variables work (at least the data set part), they need layers
( files that are not flattened) and jpegs don't support layers.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7417a.h tml
If your intention is saving different variations of your opened
file, you could use layer comps.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7870a.h tml
Then use export layer comps to files under the scripts menu.
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Keyword Sets Limited to just 9 Keywords

Is there a way to assign more than 9 keywords to a Keyword Set?
I'm a wildlife photographer and would like to use Keyword Sets for groupings of animals - eg Antelope Set, Reptile Set, Raptor Set - but all these sets would have more than 9 keywords. Breaking the sets into sub-sets would result in far too many Keyword Sets to be manageable and would also make naming the Keyword Sets a challenge.
I've created hierarchies of keywords as a work-around, but its more cumbersome than using a Keyword Set.
If Keyword Sets are limited to 9 keywords, then the functionality is fairly useless to me, so I'd like to understand why it was limited so tightly if anyone knows.

Unfortunately Melissa, what that means is that when the keyword upgrade comes out, we'll all have to shelll out for another upgrade, when it should have been included this time around.
Having only 9 keywords makes the tool VERY frustrating for me as a sports photographer to use. For example, in Baseball, I have a set for BASEBALL, baseball offense, baseball defense, bench, and crowd. The only set that I can batch apply on import is the generic BASEBALL, the others need applied to individual or groups of pictures. (ie: action and player information is specific to this photo) The "Recent" set is completely useless, as it is still pulling up basketball keywords as "recent" that have not been used in months while ignoring keywords typed minutes or even seconds before. A useful keyword set would hover at or above 20 keywords to choose from ... or at least take advantage of the rest of the column space. (Now that would be a cool idea -- dynamically sized keyword list dependent on available height on this monitor!)
In the meantime, does anyone know of a plugin that makes keywording easier? I really don't want to shell out for PhotoMechanic just to get keywording right!
John

Multiple Keyword Sets (For Multiple Databases)

I work with several different Lightroom databases and it would be nice to be able to have separate sets of keywords that go with each database.
In my specific case, I use one database for my personal photographic endeavors and another for an image library for our church. The keywords tags used for my Nature photography images and the tags used for the event photography shots for church are very different. Hence, there are lots of keywords in both libraries that have zero images attached to them.
It would be very useful in you could allow multiple keyword sets to track with multiple databases.
Dave Mayfield

There issues'Purge unused Keywords' option under Menu/Metadata.
Don't ya know.
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Exporting keywords and comments?

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.
Thanks,
"D"

Dana:
Spotlight can find keyworded images in an iPhoto library located on an external HD. One way to do what you want is what Lori suggested, copy your library to the external, open it and delete those photos you plan on keeping on the boot drive library. Then open your boot drive library and delete those that are in the external drive library. To make it easier you can create a new keyword for those destined to the external drive.
The paid version of iPhoto Library Manager will let you easily move between your multiple libraries and copy single or multiple files from one to another while keeping the keywords and other information intact. iPhoto Buddy is another application that lets you quickly change libraries but does not have the file copy capability. For best results turn off ownership on the external drive by selecting it, typing Command-I and then find the ownership part of the Info window where you can click on the "ignore ownership" checkbox.

Lighttable View mode, Keyword Sets for Import

1. I'd be nice if we could have some sort of "Lighttable View" mode for the Library module. It would be similar to the Survey Mode, but you can move the photos around on the screen and sort or group them to your liking. E.g., after photographing a demo you could put the shots of the masses in one corner, photos of the police in another etc., the pictures still being double-clickable of course. This way choosing your keepers would become easier I think. It would be nice if Lightroom saved the arrangement, too.
2. I'd like to see Keyword sets for the Import dialog. E.g. every weekend I need the set "soccer, men's, 2009/2010, AAA league". To have presets like this would make it even easier to work with Lightroom

Right
1)
As a professional photographer I need a lighttable as there is one in "Apple´s Aperture".
We need a possibility to arrange photos easily and quiclkly and set a aperture to some of thenm right at the shooting set, to demonstrate the
client how the different photos/locations could be arranged and how they could match together later in the magazine etc.
This is not a toy feature. Apple understood, that it is a feature we need to have to brainstorm
right at the set or at home. And this feature sometimes creates right at the set new ideas or prevent
failures.
So please Adobe, let there be a "real lighttable" in the next Lightroom version.
Humans just don´t think in grid mode.

Support for export keyword for templates in sunCC ?

Hello
Currently sunCC says
"OutputTemplate.hh", line 16: Warning: Export ignored -- not yet implemented.if I try to use export to export my templates.
Is sunCC going to support export keyword, like Comeau and Intel compilers ?
When will export be implemented ?
Thank you,
Timothy Madden

Then why the warning message 'not yet implemented' ? It so makes me think that in the next update there I will find it !
And it so makes my appetite for it grow ! :)
I am very sad to hear such a point of view especially as an official attitude.
I mean this reason, that there is only one implementation and the other compiler implementers did not implement it, so Sun will also not implement it, is quite ... hard to expect.
After all, all new C++ features were also not implemented by compiler implementers when they appeared, until they implemented them ...
I do not think many programmers so confuse export ed templates with extern declarations. Most programmers actually know what templates are and how they are instantiated on demand. Beside, the fact that the template definition needs not be seen by the compiler at the point of instantiation is quite true, as this is the point of using export :). The definition will just be found in one of the object files, at some point before linking.
What the "definitions-separate" default compilation model does is effectively including the template definition in every .cc file, just like I would have included it in .hh file in the first place. This is what export is to prevent: it does not include nor need the template definition until some point before linking, at which all translation units have been translated (compiled) and the template definition can be found.
It is true that in a way template instantiations use symbols from both the definition point, and the instantiation point, but this is intentional and the programmers should all well know about it. The C++ language also has quite some others such hidden effects after all ...
Merging the contexts, or instantiating the templates, should actually have nothing to do with the actual linker or the link-time, if export is to be implemented for real.
Rather the instantiation should be a separate step in the build process, after compiling and before linking, effected by a compiler-provided tool created specifically for compiling template definitions (from object files) into instances; or such a tool could be the compiler put in some special post-compile instantiaton mode. The tool would indeed be given all the object files in a program, and would resolve references between them for instantiation requests, as a linker does, so it might look like it is linking; however it only does template instantiation and it includes actual compiler functionality for that, so it is closely related to the compiler.
So instead of a compile-and-link build model application developers would have a compile-instantiate-and-link build model.
I just hope for more people to see how export is, and not rejecting it ...
Thank you,
Timothy Madden
Edited by: Madden on Jan 21, 2010 7:31 PM

How are you handling keyword sets?

After spending a little time keywording tonight, I like both Stamping and the "Assign this keyword to selected photo" options. Both are faster and easier than I anticipated. :-)
The one speed bump has been keyword set creation. It appears to limit each set to nine keywords. Is that right? If so, I guess you could divide long sets into several nine-word subsets. But if you want them in alphabetical order, what happens when you add a new keyword to the set? Wouldn't you need to shuffle everything that follows?
My temporary solution has been to create sets in the left Keyword Tags panel using "child of" nesting. This keeps that panel -- which otherwise sorts alphabetically without regard to category -- better organized and shorter. So far, I am keywording entirely from that side.
Does this make sense? If you need long sets or deep nesting in your sets, how are you approaching keywording? BTW, the more I use it, the better I like LR.

Alexander, what I'm asking about is how people handle long sets. If a keyword does not fall into the natural short-list category described by Mike, that doesn't mean you only use it "occasionally."
Suppose you regularly photograph species -- flowers, birds, animals -- or football teams with 85 players on a side. You don't want to type every name or drag and drop, do you? As Steve Jobs said of using a stylus: Yuck. Or Ick. Or Blech. Or whatever he said. :-)
The best solution I've found is to nest the lists in the left panel to shorten the panel, and then select images, twirl down the nested list to the desired keyword, and cmd-click to "Assign this keyword to selected photos." But that adds a step to the (IMHO) faster, easier system in Bridge.
Just asking if others have found a quicker way.

Keyword Set menu item

I think the Keyword Set drop-down menu needs an item to ADD a new set or maybe just a + symbol as in the Keyword list. It is not obvious to me that to create a new set you have to select an exsisting one then select Edit then save it under a new name. I had to look it up. In the drop down menu you have the options to Delete or Rename presets. Maybe the wording should be changed to Delete or Rename "Sets", instead of "Presets", since that is what they are called in the heading.
I also think the Keyword set needs room for more than a maximum of 9 enteries.

Well, that is not much to go by for us. You are probably doing something wrong before you before you do set_menu_item_property. How do you specify ID_menu?

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