Keyword HUD gone

I've just installed Aperture and installed my entire iphoto library - but after having applied about a hundred keywords or so from the Keywords HUD, the HUD has just vanished. First it froze, then I restarted Aperture, and now I can't find it anywhere, no matter what I do and even though I can both hide and show it from the menu. Help?

Well, well well, it's all been resolved, stupid me...

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    After having imported my iPhoto library into Aperture 3, I found the keyword HUD cluttered with all of my 300+ keywords, many of which were duplicated. No idea why that is, but anyway. Some of them now live on top level, some on second floor under the main keyword "iPhoto", some of them are duplicates, some are not. That's the situation.
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    OK ... but you're gonna groan. This is, btw, a long-standing bug (but still an excellent question).
    Use the search field to search for the keyword you want to move.
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    Note that if you set up a well-organized hierarchical keyword list (which seems to be your goal), you can use the other work-around, which is to collapse all levels of the outline.
    You might find these remarks on merging duplicates helpful:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12399717&#12399717
    Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger to correct typos -- sorry, seems the coffee hasn't reached the fingertips.

  • Keyword used per Keyword HUD, but not on any image per filtered search?

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  • Aperture 3 - keywords HUD multiple copies of all keywords???

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  • Keywords Deleted From Keyword HUD Randomly Reappear

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    Hello, Kirby.
    Yes, this is in fact what I'd discovered to be the issue ... every time I opened the Keyword control bar, it would repoplulate the HUD with previously deleted keywords.  I had been under the impression that the HUD was the do-all end-all location for managing keywords.
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  • Keyword hud questions

    Hi there everyone,
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  • Removing prev added keywords from main Query HUD

    Can anybody help with this ....
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    I see this as a bug and I've reported it as such.
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  • Deleting keywords in filter HUD

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    fcandy wrote:
    Thanks, but my Mac doesn't have a backspace key and delete doesn't work. Is there something else I should be pressing?
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    I have Aperture 3.4.1 installed. I have used Aperture for several years. I am not new to this.
    I have covered all the basics here. I have run a repair on my library, and restarted the computer. I will discuss the problems that I am seeing.
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    - Occassionally when starting aperture all the keywords are gone
    - Occassionally when starting the groups are there, but all the keywords are no longer inside the groups.
    - Smart Albumns do not always find the images, but if you look at the image data, the keyword is right there on the screen. So a Smart album that looks for the Automobile keyword will show no images, but I can find several images that have this keyword on it.
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    Kirby,
    Thanks for the reply. Sorry. My post was sort of long. I wanted to be sure to give the full story so that people were not replying with things like "Did you restart your computer?" "Did you repair your database?".
    Problems:
    - moving a keyword and letting go, while it is still inside the keyword list, the keyword disappears and does not come back.
    This sounds like you are accidentally dragging your Keywords to a different level/parent in your Keyword HUD.  Is that possible?  The proper way to cancel a drag-and-drop operation is to press "{Escape}".
    I was very careful and while dragging made sure that the cursor and keywords where over their starting place. I was not aware of the Escape key press for canceling a drag-n-drop. I will have to remember that for next time.
    - Restarting aperture will show sometimes duplicate groups of keywords. Each group has a different count number of images for the keyword.
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    Sorry. Let me define my use of the word groups. I use the term group to define a top level keyword, or top of a branch. It will typically have an arrow next to it that can be clicked on to expand. A keyword is a term that I use for a label that is defined in the main list, or inside an expandable label (a group).
    So, for example I could have a Family->Mom keyword twice in my list. One that says it has 42 images and the second that says it has 8. If I combine them I do not get 50. I get some other number, as if it was random. More importantly is that I don't have two different Family->Mom keywords. Why aperture started with a duplicate is beyond me.
    It should.  There is a bug where the numbers in the Keyword HUD are sometimes cropped at the right edge.  Have you tried enlarging the Keyword HUD?
    I noticed this problem as well and did not have it on my list. Hmm. Thanks. When the keywords hud does that I have been able to correct it, sometimes, by expanding the HUD horizontally and then slowly reducing the size and drag the numbers with it.
    - Occassionally when starting aperture all the keywords are gone
    Gone?  And you have re-input them more than once?  How do you know they are gone?
    Gone, yes gone. I mean I open Aperture and either use the Shift-H, or icon on tool bar, for opening the keywords HUD and the entire list is empty. Nothing there. I have even tried searching in the search box at the top of the HUD and get no matches. The list is just empty.
    When this happens I just quit aperture and shut down the computer. After restarting, sometimes, the list magically repopulates.
    - Occassionally when starting the groups are there, but all the keywords are no longer inside the groups.
    What groups?  Do you mean Parents with children Keywords?  How do you know the children are missing?  Do they return?
    Yes, I mean the Parent with children Keywords, or as I just added above a label (parent is better word) that can be expanded with keywords inside it. When I look at the list, For example, I have a Parent Keyword called Family. That group does not have an arrow and cannot be expanded. Furthermore, all the keywords that were at a lower level inside the Family group are now in the main list of keywords, or the highest level possible. If I want things to return to normal I have to restart the computer and aperture. Although that is not a garuntee to work everytime.
    Again, I assume by "group" you mean the parent Keyword.  Lifting a child Keyword and stamping it will apply that Keyword.  Aperture does not assign the parent Keyword, but it does understand that the stamped Keyword is a child of the parent Keyword.  If you filter using the Rule "Keyword" and check the parent Keyword, all Images with any of the children Keywords will be selected.
    Yes, and thanks for providing me with the term Parent keyword. I will use that more in the future. I don't have any problem with how the image is stamped with the keywords. But if I have a keyword Family->Mom and I lift this and stamp another image. That image will have the keyword Mom. Aperture now updates the master keyword list inside the HUD and shows Mom at the highest level with everything else. I don't want that, because now I have to merge the Mom keyword back into the Family Parent. I don't doubt that Aperture knows what to do when searching, but the keyword HUD does not.
    Thanks again for all the feedback. I do not have much exposure to other people using Aperture. I will do better at my terminology in the future. It is good to know that I am doing some things the same way everyone else does. I was thinking that maybe I was doing something more than everyone else. I wonder why no one else has said anything about the keywords issues. I would think that with so many peopel using them, there would be more complaints, or discussions.

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