Keyword File Import

I cannot seem to import a keyword file to lightroom. I cannot seem to find any reference to what lightroom considers a valid file.
Strangely, if I export my keywords from lightroom and then try to re-import them Lightroom still comes up with an invalid file warning. So lightroom does not accept the validity of the very file that it created as an exported keyword file?*!
Has anyone managed to import a keyword file into lightroom?
I had been wanting to get my Controlled Vocab list into lightroom since the beta and yesterday came accross the following. http://www.shepherdpics.com/Blog/2007/02/how-to-use-controlled-vocabulary-in.html
But I just can't help but think there is some sort of bug here.
Thanks for any insights.....

Just another instance of the Bridge and LR teams operating out of separate bunkers seemingly oblivious to what each is doing, or worse, has DONE in the past. The LR team must have thought that we would all come to LR as complete Newbies without established workflows, archives, duplicate named client files,etc (I could go on, but the copious posts are there to read) that included other Adobe products (the exception, PS)like Bridge where we would have built up keyword hierarchies.
Your problem is the same as mine. And this thread has forewarned me not to attempt keyword conversion in LR. I have thousands of keywords in other XMP and XML aware apps and archives that would have to be brought into LR if I were to adopt it in my workflow. But, I won't be even considering that until LR is truly out of 'Beta'--and it isn't really yet. They have just called it V1.

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I'd like to automatically save each photo filename as a keyword for that photo, so if the file name is changed later through different versions it retains the original filename within its EXIF information to identify it, preferably while importing it.
I there some form of dynamic keyword that lets you have Aperture replace it with the current file name?
Thanks for your kind assistance.

A good idea, but afaik, there is no automatic keyword assignment, that reads the EXIF data.
You can automatically assign a set of predefined keywords on import or using Metadata > Batch change, but that will not help in your case.
so if the file name is changed later through different versions it retains the original filename within its EXIF information to identify it,
The original imagefile will always retain the original image filename, unless you change it on purpose, when you rename versions by using "Metadata > Write IPTC Metadata to original". If you do not modify the originals this way, you will always be able to revert to the original filename.
One more thought - if you create a new keyword for each and every image filename, your list of keywords will quickly become bloated and useless, since you can have 1000000 different images in your library. Consider to write this information into a comment field or create a custom metadata field instead. You could then create an Apple Script to save the original filename to this custom field.

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I have tried to find a way to NOT import existing keywords present in files that are already on my system, when I am importing those files into my library. They mess up my existing keyword structure and I just want to ignore them during import. I tried to enter an empty keyword text area with checkbox ticked in the template I apply during import, but that doesn't do the trick for reasons I don't comprehend. Any clues?

To tell you the truth, I don't think the Lighroom Import function has the capability of removing keywords.
Your choices seem to be ...
Remove keywords after import, in which case you would also have to remove the unwanted keyword from your hierarchy
Use freeware tools like Geosetter or Exiftool to remove the keywords from your photos before importing

Adding keywords during import

I have keyword C in a hierarchy:
•A
•B
C
During import if I try to assign keyword C a new keyword C is created at the top level and this new C is what is assigned to the images.
If I assign the keywords after import using *Metadata->Batch Change* it works fine, keyword C from the hierarchy is assigned.
I have made sure that no C exists at the top level (or anywhere else in the keyword HUD except in A->B) before importing, I deleted all the completions from the keyword input field also.
Am I doing something wrong, is anyone else having this problem?
thanks in advance.
Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano
Just blew away Plist file and tried it, still does it.
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It is still not solved - after each import with previously assigned keywords from level C these keywords are imported at level A, that is easy to fix in the Keywords HUD; however, the worst part of it is, that all smart albums using those particular keywords will stop working. The smart albums will no longer refer to the original keyword but instead to the new duplicates and the albums will be empty.
After importing images with keywords all my thematic smart albums (screensaver selections, web selections, book selections) have to be edited again, and sometimes I even have to repair the library because merging the duplicates in the Keywords HUD does not always remove the duplicates from the smart album settings. E.g., these duplicates no longer exist in the Keywords HUD, but remain in the smart album settings: (the original keywords are children of the group "_Rollen")
This behaviour is the same on all three machines with AP 3.2.1 and OS Lion 10.7.2 I have access to:
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Keywords on Import?

I enter keywords on import and may use the same keyword multiple times.
When I twirl open the keyword HUD I have to re-move the keyword into the "folder" I created that already has the keyword in it. It gives me a move keyword warning and then asks if I want to merge which I do.
It takes a while - I get the beach ball - there has got to be a better way.
I do select replace on import and perhaps I should be selecting append?
I'm new at this and migrating 35,000 images into Aperture for the 1st time.
I am in the process of reading the Apple Pro Aperture 2 book but have not gotten to that topic yet.
I am hoping someone can jump in with a faster, easier, more efficient way to keep my keyword HUD tidy and not give me multiples of keywords which already exist in the HUD from previous imports.
Thanks!

OK ... I've dug my way out. Fortunately I'm rather anal about backups.
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