Keywording Problems

Some of you may remember my posts about problems in transferring over five years of keywording into Lightroom. It's now done (almost!).
I've been away travelling for three months and have only just got back to finishing it off.
Before going further, I should say that in accordance with my normal practice of only upgrading every other new version - my only way to take practical steps to counter Adobe's innocuous practice of overcharging UK buyers - I'm still using 1.4.
To make a usable Keyword Tags panel, I opted to use non-export top-level keywords and some similar second level. I type these in all caps to distinguish them easily. To make the list accessible and logical, I opted to use the old dodge of leading spaces to force the order. So, my top-level keywords include, for example, [sp]PLACES, [sp]PEOPLE, [sp]OBJECTS & THINGS ([sp]=space).
The reason for the leading spaces is to force the non-exporting keywords to the top of the list, because I will sometimes generate new exportable keywords which will start out at the top level, and will later be moved further into the hierarchy.
The list quickly becomes unusable if the two types are intermixed. Also, if I import images with existing keywords which occur twice or more in my list, LR places a new instance of the word in the top level, because LR doesn't know which of the existing instances to chose.
But I'm finding that I can't get the keywords to identify themselves reliably from the Keywords panel on the right hand side. If I begin to type a word, it correctly offers me a hierarchical option from the existing keywords. But if I accept this by pressing 'enter', LR will create a new top-level keyword without the leading space, and will not use the existing instance of the word. So, for example, I type 'fire' and LR suggests
"fire > INTANGIBLE THINGS > OBJECTS & THINGS" (note that there are 2 spaces after each >);
I press enter, and end up with a new entry:
"OBJECTS & THINGS>INTANGIBLE THINGS>fire" as well as the existing
" OBJECTS & THINGS> INTANGIBLE THINGS>fire".
I'm really finding this process annoying in the extreme. I've put in weeks and weeks of work to get to where I am, but the system seems set up to sabotage my best attempts to use it.
Any suggestions? Is there any substantial change to the keywording in LR2 which might make me change my policy?
Best regards
Patrick Cunningham

Patrick-
Since I am at level 1 in my keywording, and you're at the very advanced level- as are many others, who may or may not see this thread, may I suggest you give a quick test of v2? (30 day free trial) on a smallish catalog, but with all your keywords.

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    Two days I ago I changed something in Preferences->Metadata and the next time I started Bridge CS4 and used the loupe tool on a NEF file, it took longer than usual for the preview to come up and when it did, it was at 200% magnification instead of 100%.
    Changes metadata in prefs only affects the visability of the fields in the metadata panel. put or deselect a checkmark in front of an option will let you see or not see the field in this panel, the actual data and fields ar still in the file.
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    Anyone else having this issue?
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    Thank you !

    Just solved my problem !!!
    Thanks to a tip in the now defunct Bagelturf website (available thru the Wayback Machine here: http://bit.ly/KzMBEv)  the solution is simple and elegent:
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    Still curious if anyone has an issue with nested keywords being place at the root....

  • Keywording problem in Lightroom 2.4 and Photoshop CS4

    I'm experiencing a problem with keywording in Lightroom 2.4 and Photoshop CS4. When i export a batch of photos that were keyworded in LR to the desk top then open a photo in PS I  find only one keyword when I look through the "file info" menu item.  Any ideas on how I might resolve this problem or what I may be doing wrong.
    Many thanks in advance.

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  • Smart Collection Keyword Problem

    I'm having a problem with smart collections.  I do bird photography and am trying to catalog my bird images.  I created a collection set called Birds, and I created sub-collection sets for various species.  Smart collections by and large do a good job of pulling images into the proper smart collections based upon keywords I've assigned to images.  But I'm having a problem with a couple of keywords.
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    Contains All - Treats the input as multiple "word fragments" and matches any photo that has a keyword that contains all of the "word fragments", even if only in part (i.e. as substring).
    For example: If you have two photos:
    Photo A, with: 'Big Mallard Ducks'
    Photo B, with: 'Small Mallard Ducks'
    Then Contains All:
    'allar uck ig' will match photo A, but not B.
    'allar uck' will match both.
    'Contains Words' is confusing as heck - I took a whack then realized I was wrong. Maybe somebody else can educate us both.
    I just did this test - I have a photo with the keyword:
    'Big Mallard Ducks'
    then Contains Words:
    Big - matches
    Mallard - matches
    Big Mallard - matches
    Mallard Big - matches
    Big Mallard Ducks - does not
    Mallard Ducks - does not
    Ducks Mallard - does not
    Big Ducks - does not
    Ducks - does not
    Straight from the latest help file: Contains Words
    Searches for text that contains all specified alphanumeric sequences as whole words. To find photos with the keyword flower using a Contains Word search, for example, type flower.
    Here's another question for y'all:
    Is 'Contains Words' broken? - I'd have to say it is...
    Rob

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