Keyword destroying file

When I apply a keyword to some of my video files .MOV, it destroyes the original file. It turns to a picture icon, not video and now I can't play it in Bridge and when dubbelclicking it saids. "The movie couldn't be find + The file is not a mov file".!? I can't even open the file in Quicktime... its totally destroyed.!? What to do.?
PS, the file worked perfectly before I assigned a keyword...

I tried that
What did you try?
PE only gives me the option of writing an .xml file
I already explained there are several ways to go here, and so I can't understand why you feel the only option is writing an .xml file (which, by the way, is not one I am familiar with)
It's like the fact that LR won't recognize my 6,000+ .png files,
It's like the fact? Oh.
Lightroom does not recognize .png files. They cannot be imported into Lightroom. You need to convert them to .jpg or .tif or .psd if you want them to be indexed in Lightroom. Which of course is a different issue than the one I thought we were addressing.

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