Keywords attached to Metadata as well?

Aloha everyone,
I am fed up with iPhoto- it's all good if I was a high school student taking 30 pictures of friends a month, but I do events and things and I usually take over 3,000 in hours.. most end up being deleted but still I have a huge library.
I would like to switch to Aperature, but one thing I need answered is wether changes and catagorizing that is done in Aperture will be added to each file's metadata and not just stored on a single "reference" file, which can be corrupted and worse, makes it very hard to impossible to move to other programs in the future.
Does anyone know if keywords, date changes, and such, is added to the Metadata of the actual pictures?

The data is not added to the image unless you export it.

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I want to know how can i NOT include top level keyword in the metadata of an image. I know there is an option for not applying a keyword to an exported image, but is there an option for not applying the top level keyword to the actual image?
I have organized my geographical (by location) keywords like this:
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Excuse my english, i know it is not good. I hope that you could understand me.
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Explicitly excluding a keyword only applies when "exporting". Unfortunately, there's currently no way to stop the keyword being written to the file when "Save Metadata to File" command is used. The natural reaction of users to this difference is to suggest that it is stupid. Nevertheless, there are good reasons why the difference exists:
1. "Export" creates a new file whereas "Save Metadata to File" writes the metadata back into the existing file.
2. There are very good reasons why certain keywords should not be written to file, and the example given in the OP is one. Saving metadata to file is more often used as means of backing up important image related metadata, independently of the catalog or allowing the metadata to be visible in other aplications. It would be rare that such a file would be shared with a third party, so the reason for not including certain keywords is less obvious. Actually, not including it can result in no end of confusion and grief. For example, if the top level (or any keyword) was excluded during the save metadata process then the other keywords would be orphaned when image is imported back into the catalog (e.g. buiding a new catalog).
The development team are aware of the need, in some circumstances, to exclude certain keywords when save metadata command is used. How and when the issue is resolved, without adding even more confusion/complexity, is some way off.

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How do I append Keywords and other metadata I added in Aperture to the masterfile without exporting?
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I guess you will need a new copy of the RAW to import into Portfoilio. That's really the only way to get Aperture to make the XMP file that contains the keywords. There is a program called Annoture which can convert Aperture metadata into metadata for the program iView Media Pro. No one has made a program to get metadata directly into Portfolio. Aperture wpn't "embed" the keywords in a RAW file because it will not alter the original. Maybe someday Aperture will create DNG files.

How do I batch the file name (without extention) into the keyword in the metadata

I am trying to use a keyword into sets of images, each of the images on the set contains in the file name what I want for keyword and an extension.
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WD111_main
WD111_01
WD111_02
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Is there a way to automatically save my keywords to the metadata?

I'm coming from Lightroom, and it does it all automatically.

What do you mean with "save keywords to metadata"?
In Aperture - most of the time - saving any edits is not necessary. Conceptually Aperture is more like a database or an asset management system than like a document editor. Any changes to metadata tags like keywords are stored immediately. While working with Aperture you are changing images (items in Aperture), not image files. You change a keyword or any other part of the metadata and that change applies to the version of the image you are editing.
When you export an image all your edits are computed to create an image file and you can choose to have the IPICT-Metadata added to the exported image file.
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Thanks for the reply. I am somewhat clearer on exporting and I understand the non-destructive changes concept for LR.
Maybe a better question would be " Does Lightroom recompress a jpeg when writing to the XMP space in the file?" please correct me if "XMP space" is not he correct term for where keywords are stored.

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Keywords the only metadata fully supported ??

As far as I can tell from reading the manual, the only type of metadata that is fully supported, in the sense of having handy tools to organise, add and edit the information, is keywords.
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How can I expand the path of keywords in the metadata inspector?

In the metadata view I see the keywords at the leaf level, but I want to see the full path in order to delete one of multiple keywords of the same name (at leaf level).
To better explain: Let's say there are two leafs "other"; if both are applied to a single version then they appear as one "other" in the inspector. If I delete the only "other" in the inspector then it deletes both types, not just the one. Obviously something is keeping track of the difference, because when I delete the keyword of type1's "other", it complains that a version has it. Yet, when I delete it, the type 2's "other" remains in the inspector's keyword list.
In a nutshell: I simply want to delete a keyword for a given path, whether it be from the inspector or some other method. Besides, it would be nice to see which "other" it is in the inspector. Surely there is a preference I missed.

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(This is from memory -- I can't check right now.)

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