Keywords in italics

For some reason all of my keywords are now in italics and they don't show up in the keywords panel. I know to fix them I can use the "Make persistent" function, but this only works if the file is selected. This means I would have to select all the files in each folder to allow me to mark all the keywords "Make persistent". With over 15,000 Photos in over 600 Folders this is gonna take a long time. Isn't there a quicker way of doing this?

It's a lesson I won't forget.
The first rule is back up, the second rule is a back up and the third rule also a back up…
If you are on a Mac here is the path for the keyword list:
User (your user name) / library / Application Support / Adobe / Bridge CSxx / inhere is a file called: "Adobe Bridge Keywords.xml"
The moment you start adding a keyword to the list in Bridge Keyword panel it saves it to this file. I believe the mentioned file is already present when starting bridge the first time after install because there is a default keyword list present.
But the safest way is to first export the old file as a back up.
Meanwhile you might want to check the Bridge Scripting Forum, Not sure but maybe they already have created a script for such cases as you, if not they can tell you if it is possible and maybe even provide you with the script so you don't need to do them all manually.
http://forums.adobe.com/community/bridge/bridge_scripting

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Altering the linkage between Keywords and sub keywords

I have a master folder that contains a series of folders with several thousand images, all with keywords. Things seem to work when I try a FIND, etc. However my old keyword structure needs to be fine tuned. I created a new structure and some of the old image keywords stored in the file metadata do find the corresponding keyword in the new structure. But some images bring in the old structure as a temporary/italicized entry into my new keyword structure. For example, I have an image with the keyword “Calumet”, that’s all I see when I look at the keyword list. My new keyword structure looks like:
Location (keyword)-Houghton County(sub keyword)-Calumet(sub keyword)
When I select the image rather than turning on the check in new structure Bridge creates an image of the old structure:
Locations (keyword)-Hghtn Cnty(sub keyword)-Calumet(sub keyword) in italics.
Other images with other keywords work but unfortunately there is a series of keywords that continue to bring in the old structure. I can’t visually see how Bridge knows that the image’s use of ‘Calumet’ was originally linked to Hghtn Cnty to Locations when I first added the keywords. I unfortunately assumed that all that was saved was the sub keyword ‘Calumet’ and that Bridge would search my new structure to find a match, “Calumet” to “Calumet”, wherever Calumet appears in the new list. Does anyone know how Bridge saves the links between sub keywords and keywords and how to change that link? I have several thousand images to alter or should I just stick with the old keyword structure?

Indexing is the key here as you probably have folders that have not been re-indexed under the new scheme. The search works only on indexed folders, but don't believe it is automatically re-indexed just becasue you made changes.
My best guess is that you have to dump the cache and let it rebuild, and then re-index your folders. You could test this by purging the cache for one problem folder (tools/cache/purge cache for xxx folder". Visit the folder and let it rebuild then do a search on that folder to see it the search now works.
Rather than dumping the cache you can also try a Find starting at the 1st folder on your drive (it searches from start down directry tree) and check the box for "search non-indexed files" as this re-indexes everything it searches. That is why it is so slow.
Hope this solves the problem.

Itallic Text in Table header

Hello All,
We are using the TableView Control in one of our aplications to display search results.When we built this particular application we were on EP6 SP2 PL 29.
Some how in that version teh header text in the tabledataview control was displaying italic text.
We used the following piece of code do this.
bean.setSearchHeader("Search Result(s) For: "+ bean.getSearchString()+ " ("+ mySearch.getTrueResults()+ ")");"
This would display the keyword we searched for in Italic.
Now we have migrated from EP6 SP2 to EP6 SP16.
The correct portal version is:
J2EE Engine 6.40 PatchLevel 102141.313
Portal 6.0.16.0.0
KnowledgeManagementCollaboration 6.0.16.3.0 (NW04 SPS16 Patch3)
Now in this particular version when we search for any keywords.
The results are displayed but the header data does not show the keyword in Italics, however it displayes the "" tag.
Let me know whether we can display italic text in table Header.
Thanks and Regards
Manoj Kumar
Message was edited by: Manoj Kumar

Hi,
to customize the header of the TableView change the header renderer.
1. implement IHeaderRenderer interface:
public class HeaderRenderer implements IHeaderRenderer {
public void renderHeader(TableView tableView, IPageContext pcontext) {
TextView tv = new TextView();
tv.setEncode(false);
tv.setText("italic header text");
tv.render(pcontext);
public boolean willRenderHeader(TableView tableView, IPageContext pcontext) {
//allways render
return true;
2. set the header renderer class to your TableView object:
tableView.setHeaderRenderer(new HeaderRenderer());
this should show the text in the table header in italics.
Romano

Italicized duplicate keywords - How do I get rid of them permanently? - BRIDGE CS5

In the keyword panel,I have the same keyword in several places in the hierarchy. I think some came in as legacy keywords, and others, I inadvertently created the same keyword twice. These duplicates appear in different parts of the whole keyword list. Now so I don't have all those confusing duplicates, and so I can find stuff, I would like to delete the extra keywords. The duplicates appear in italics. I can make them persistent, but I can't get rid of them. I've tried all sorts of things like finding all the files with the keyword in question, manually deleting the words and then re entering. I can delete the words, but they will magically reappear. What I want to do is consolidate multiple, duplicate kewords. Is that possible? Any ideas?
Thanks!
Liz
[email protected]

That root is for Mac OSX right?
I'm using Windows 7. The only other possiblity could be Lightroom
3 which I downloaded yesterday to see if I could fix this problem. Where can I find the keywords file for Lightroom.

A keyword is now in italics

Folks - Sorry to be peppering the forum with questions, but if the Help menu of Bridge was even halfway helpful I wouldn't have to.
I see that a keyword is currently in Italics. I thought I had deleted it and instead it is not deletable as all the options are grayed out. What does the italics imply, and how can I remove this keyword?
Many thx in advance.

When you see a keyword listed in Italics it means that it is still assigned to at least one image. In other words, you deleted the keyword from the list, not the images to which it was assigned.
The easiest way to find the image or images is to look at the keyword panel on the left side of Bridge (see screenshot). All assigned keywords for the folder of images you're viewing will be listed. Find the unwanted keyword and click on it to filter down to only those images that use that keyword. Select all of them then go back to the right side keyword panel. The unwanted keyword should still be italic, but will contain a checkmark. When you remove the checkmark the keyword is removed from the images. Once it has been removed from your images it should be possible to permanently remove it from the list.

Duplicate Italic Keywords in Bridge

You asked....
In the keyword panel,I have the same keyword in several places in the hierarchy. I think some came in as legacy keywords, and others, I inadvertently created the same keyword twice. These duplicates appear in different parts of the whole keyword list. Now so I don't have all those confusing duplicates, and so I can find stuff, I would like to delete the extra keywords. The duplicates appear in italics. I can make them persistent, but I can't get rid of them. I've tried all sorts of things like finding all the files with the keyword in question, manually deleting the words and then re entering. I can delete the words, but they will magically reappear. What I want to do is consolidate multiple, duplicate kewords. Is that possible? Any ideas?Thanks
Here is the summary of details and how to fix this.
When you create keywords in Bridge, the metadata is stored in the xmp file in unicode 8 format.
While that sounds like software techno babble, a point emerges.
When Bridge reads the xmp file it reports on keywords that already exist within your own keyword library and this is indicated by a floating italic keyword.
While this does not harm anything, it is a mess to read and organize.
Here is the fix.
You must follow these steps EXACTLY or you may create the need to re-keword files.
1. Create a new UNIQUE keyword. I suggest capital "AAAA" (no quotes) since this places the keyword at the very top of your keywords.
2. Do a Find with the keyword of interest. (typically one of the italic keywords that appear but choose the keyword in your Keyword Library and Not the italic keyword)
3. Once the files are found, check the keyword in the Filter panel ON THE LEFT side of the Bridge screen where the keyword lists appear. (your Keyword Library is the panel on the right of the screen)
4. Select ALL in the browser window.
5. On the right side of the screen in the Keyword Library apply "AAAA" (or unique keyword of your choice) to the selected files. (no quotes) WAIT!.... for Bridge to COMPLETELY finish writing the metadata. (thousands of files can take some time, just watch the lower left progress indicator carefully!!!! and if you have tens of thousands consider using this technique to individual folders rather than entire root directories BE WISE!.... too many files can run Bridge out of memory and create a new problem)
6. On the left side of the screen in the Filter keyword lists panel, check AAAA.
7. On the right side of the screen in the keywords library panel navigate to where you would prefer to have the duplicate keyword located just so you know where it is.... Do NOT apply.
8. On the right side of the screen where the italic duplicate keyword appears (alphabetically as it works out) uncheck the duplicate italic keyword and WAIT for bridge to COMPLETELY finish erasing the italic keyword.
Here's the trick.
What you have done is made a unique selection based a unique find and applied the unique keyword AAAA and have instructed Bridge to show all files within the unique search that NOW have the keyword AAAA and have erased the keyword that you used to do a Find, ie, the duplicate. (you will see that the unique word you used to do the Find will now be italic and "0" in the Filter keywords lists on the left side of the screen.
All the photos will remain selected because they are now identified by AAAA.
Now for the next step.
9. In the Keyword Library on the right side of the screen, Navigate to the place where you wish the duplicate keyword to be located in step 7.
10. Check the keyword and apply the keyword from the place where you want it (step 7) and WAIT for Bridge to COMPLETELY finish writing the metadata keyword. (the keyword lists on the left will no longer be italic and will be the exact number of files you selected)
11. IMPORTANT!!!!!...... now uncheck AAAA in the keyword library to remove AAAA from the Filter keyword lists on the left. YOU MUST DO THIS AND NOT FORGET.
(verify that AAAA is now italic and has "0" files)
Believe it or not, you are done!
You have now removed the italic keyword on the right permanently.
Oddly enough, you won't see the italic keyword on the right go away, why is that you ask?
The italic duplicate keyword you see is in Ram and will not go away until you Quit and ReLaunch Bridge.
Like magic, the duplicate italic keyword has vanished.
You must repeat this technique for EVERY file that has a duplicate keyword whether you created it or not otherwise the duplicate italic keyword will once again reappear.
I VERY STRONGLY SUGGEST.... that you repeat these steps For ONE duplicate keyword Find at a time, in fact I cannot suggest this strongly enough. One Keyword At A Time.
While you can use this technique for more than one keyword at a time, you will only cause more work as you go through this process.
Sound complicated?..... its not..... do this once or twice and see that it is easier done than said.
PS
I have more than a million files keyworded and had to use this technique myself. (I devised this technique out of pure necessity and if followed and understood.... it works perfectly)

Workflow... A couple weeks ago I decided it was time to reload from scratch, so I re-installed Windows 7. Which meant re-installing Photoshop and all that stuff. Which meant it did all the updates.
I've been doing other stuff, so I'm not sure I've been in Bridge where I'd have noticed the problem in the last week or so, which is about how long I've had all the new installs up and running...
So, it's a brute force "fix", but I opened Bridge and dithe "reset your preferences" thing. Then immediately un-installed all the Photoshop stuff and re-installed all the Photoshop stuff. When I restarted Bridge I pointed the cache at a different partition......
I have NO idea WHICH thing fixed it, but no more phantom folders... Curt, your idea about workflow finally got me thinking WHY was I only seeing recent folders as phantoms rather than ALL the ones I'd fiddled with... And the ones I WAS seeing were all recent - in the last week or so. So WHY it'd make any difference I don't know, but it appears to be happy again. I'll try fiddling with stuff in Lightroom, make sure no new phantom folders show up, then if it's good I"ll point things back to the "cache" partition...
Thanks for your help...

CS4 Bridge Keywords - Delete when Bridge is close.

Greetings
I have gone through and applied keywords to hundreds of images, along with a respective Hierarchy KeyWords as well. As long as Bridge remains open and my computer is on I have access to sort, and find files based on Keywords.
"Close Bridge" : and all Keywords are missing from Keyword pane, excluding the few that are present with Bridge as examples that are always there.
I can, re-select all the images, and the keywords will load again into the Keyword pane, but that takes about hour to manage.
It is like some preference file is not being read, or the Keywords are not saved to the Keywords pane. I have loaded again this App from Photoshop CS4.
One person suggested I go into Preferences and un-click "Read Hierarchy keywords" then open all my image folders and again click on the images to reload the keywords into the Keyword pane again. Then go back to preferences and re-click Read Hierarchy Keywords again, and that everything should be in order. I have done this twice, once with starting Bridge again before re-clicking RHK button again.
Still after two years of having Bridge CS4, I can not used this function to search for images.
And yes, I do select a folder or mounting disk for Bridge to look at for finding the Keywords.
After all this time, has anyone solve the riddle of trying to make this work. I can not update my MAC. I have a PowerPC, Quick Silver, 2002 G4, dual 1000. So 10.4.11 is the last operating system I believe I can use.
Thanks for you help.
Have a good day.

Hello Curt
Thank you for your reply.
This Keyword system was working earlier, that is I could shut off the computer and come back to open Bridge and the keywords were there.
As you suggested the keyword did come up in Italics as I began working with them a few days ago, because someone had responded to an old Thread of mine from this site from almost a year ago. Initially there were coming up as persistent in normal font face.
I followed your suggestion with a smaller batch of Keywords, then shut down the computer and, and they were present when the program came back up.
So Thanks, that works.
This will get me back on the right track again with Keywords.
I have no idea what iniciated a change of from persistent keywords to loosing them all in the past. But at least cognitively, I now have a clear process for getting them to show up again on start.
Thanks again for your reply.

Bridge CS4 Search Not Displaying NEF Files + Keyword Problems

Hello, I am hoping someone can be of service to peculiar problem that apparently nobody else has had.
I am running Adobe Bridge CS4 (came bundled with Photoshop Elements 8) on a 2009 24 inch iMac with 4GB RAM and a 2.6mHz processor running Snow Leopard v10.6.2.
I use Adobe Bridge CS4 to add Keywords to all my photos and edit 14 bit Nikon NEF RAW files. I write the keywords to an .XMP sidecar
file.
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%. Once the loupe preview showed up, the NEF file had some sort of processing applied to it (it became more contrasted.) This was all within Bridge ant NOT Adobe Camera Raw. I quit the program and the next time I started Bridge, it crashed upon using the loupe tool. I looked up help on Adobe's website and it appeared I had corrupted preferences. Per Adobe's instructions I option clicked at Bridge startup to delete the preferences and purge the cache.
Everything appeared to be normal until today when I searched for a keyword and got 36 random results when I know I have hundreds of
photos tagged with that particular keyword. I started typing in other keywords and getting the same sort of results- very limited numbers of photos I have hundreds of. I always include all subfolders in all searches and used every search method available through Bridge to no avail. The searches always came up with a fraction of the photos I actually have tagged.
I then verified and repaired all disk permissions from the operating system installation CD and Bridge started returning results as
usual. However, when I clicked on an individual file in the Content pane, some of my Keywords started to appear in italics below the rest of my Keyword tree. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason as to why some images will return the Keywords normally and others in italics. Also, sometime the italicized keyword tree will include keywords I edited due to typos and thus no longer existing my normal Keyword tree. I gave the "Make Persistent" command a try. It converts the italics to regular case, but it also doubles the tag so I now have two of that tag (one in the normal keyword tree, and the now converted italics keyword tree.)
Now I'm noticing that all my search results are not including NEF files; just JPEG and the occasional DNG file that I made through Adobe Camera RAW. I'm not sure if this has been the case throughout my problem or if I just noticed it late.
Regarding not displaying NEF files in searches, it appears that it will default to displaying JPEG if it has the option because as of lately I have only been shooting RAW and some of those files are showing up in the still-wonky searches (still displaying random or no photos of keywords.) However, if I manually navigate to a file, I can open and edit NEF files with no problem, they just don't display in any search modes.
Here's two short videos of what happens when I navigate a folder with NEF files by manually searching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDjUDZzULKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y9HkDK7DCs
When I click on a NEF file, the one ahead of it in Content view processes into a more contrasty image and the loupe tool previews jump between 100% and 400% and then change to 100% when dragged or they just process themselves right then and there.

I am running Adobe Bridge CS4 (came bundled with Photoshop Elements 8) on a 2009 24 inch iMac with 4GB RAM and a 2.6mHz processor running Snow Leopard v10.6.2.
Snow Leopard and Bridge CS4 do have some issues. Some have no problems and others have much problems I'm afraid.
I use Adobe Bridge CS4 to add Keywords to all my photos and edit 14 bit Nikon NEF RAW files. I write the keywords to an .XMP sidecar file.
To my knowledge the keywords are written into the XMP Metadata that is saved in the IPTC section of file itself, the XMP data in the sidecar file contain the changes you made in ACR. In other words, the keywords you have added should still be there.
Also see this Knowledge Base article about Keywords:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402660.html
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.
it was at 200% magnification instead of 100%. Once the loupe preview showed up, the NEF file had some sort of processing applied to it (it became more contrasted.) This was all within Bridge ant NOT Adobe Camera Raw.
You can change the magnification for the loupe to 100 / 200 / 400 and 800 % using the scrollwheel or with loupe active the + and - keys. Bridge shows the settings that you made in ACR. If you have changed the default Camera Raw setting it will also change the thumbs for this file. A thumbs needs some time to be cached. First it shows with a black border around, when first cached it shows the embedded preview and in the second round it renders the ACR settings and High Quality preview (if you have not disabled this setting). Caching needs some time.
Everything appeared to be normal until today when I searched for a keyword and got 36 random results when I know I have hundreds of photos tagged with that particular keyword. I started typing in other keywords and getting the same sort of results- very limited numbers of photos I have hundreds of. I always include all subfolders in all searches and used every search method available through Bridge to no avail. The searches always came up with a fraction of the photos I actually have tagged.
Maybe you need to let the indexing in find do its work again but it might also be a snow leopard issue. Try an other app (Digital Asset Management like Expresion Media or Portfolio) to check about the keywording and find. You can use a trial version for several days. You have several options to use find keywords. In the panel itself, in the filterpanel uner the keyword tab, when clicking on a visible keyword it only shows the files with that keyword or in the menu Edit / find (shortcut cmd + F) explore the options in this menu and also choose include non indexed and let Bridge start to index your files again.
However, when I clicked on an individual file in the Content pane, some of my Keywords started to appear in italics below the rest of my Keyword tree. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason as to why some images will return the Keywords normally and others in italics. Also, sometime the italicized keyword tree will include keywords I edited due to typos and thus no longer existing my normal Keyword tree. I gave the "Make Persistent" command a try. It converts the italics to regular case, but it also doubles the tag so I now have two of that tag (one in the normal keyword tree, and the now converted italics keyword tree.)
Don't know about that.
Here's two short videos of what happens when I navigate a folder with NEF files by manually searching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDjUDZzULKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y9HkDK7DCs
When I click on a NEF file, the one ahead of it in Content view processes into a more contrasty image and the loupe tool previews jump between 100% and 400% and then change to 100% when dragged or they just process themselves right then and there.
As you can see the black border around some file that disappear after a while or when you select them they have not been cached. You used purge cache so most of your earlier cached results are gone and need to rebuild.

Bridge Keywords Dupliacte Problem.

What are the Italicized duplicate keywords in Bridge and How do I get rid of them permanently? I’m using Design Premium CS5 with all the updates on windows 7 64bit. In the keyword panel, I have the same keyword in several places in the hierarchy. These duplicates appear in different parts of the whole keyword list. I would like to delete the extra keywords. The duplicates appear in italics. I can make them persistent, but I can't get rid of them. I've tried all sorts of things like finding all the files with the keyword in question, manually deleting the words and then re entering. I can delete the words, but they will reappear. I have already tried exiting Bridge and restart but they are still there. I have already delete things like User/AppData//Roaming/Adobe and cache files. I have also tried lightroom and reinstalling Design but still no success. So can someone please help if they have any ideas to fix this issue.

git it
I got it to work it seems:
user library/ caches/ Adobe/ Bridge CC : Cache folder
and deleted folder.

Bridge Keywords driving me nuts! Please help......

I've been directed here by the good people at Elements Village as I have a Bridge specific question that you guys may be able to help with.
I've been using Bridge (CS3, I think) with PSE V4 Mac for several years and have multiple and extensive keywords applied to all my tens of thousands of photos.
I've upgraded to PSE V8 Mac with Bridge CS4. The PSE side of things is fine now. But my Bridge keywords are completely screwed up. With some technical help I've been able to copy my keyword tree from one version to the other. But the problem is that although Bridge is reading my existing keywords, it's throwing them up out of sync, in different parents and in multiples of each keyword. So whereas I had created "All Kids" child keyword under "People" parent in my old version, in the new version "All Kids" appears twice - once as a new parent and again as a child under "Activities", as well as under the original "People" parent. I can't delete the extras as this will remove the tags from all of these photos. I can't move into the "People" parent as there is already a category there and I although I can deselect the incorrect "All Kid" tags and only select the child keyword in the correct place, when I search again on this keyword, it chucks them all up again, with multiple "All Kids" checked. Furthermore, not all photos that I've tagged with All Kids have all three "All Kids" keywords selected, some only have one or t'other tagged.
Obviously, I can make persistant one or both of the new "All Kids" keywords, but neither are in the correct place in my tree and neither will allow me to move them.
This has happened with ALL my existing keywords - multiple copies, in multiple locations.
I've tried resetting the Bridge preferences.
I've tried going through them keyword by keyword and deselecting the new, out of place keyword and re-selecting the correct keyword - to no avail. When I search again, new out of place keywords are thrown up.
I've tried going back to the new install basic keyword list and re building my keyword tree, but the minute I put in a search, out of place keywords are thrown up that I can't move into the correct parent.
I've tried starting again with my keyword system - I imagine this will take months and months and there simply HAS to be an easier way to do this.
I've read and re-read the online manual at Adobe and can find nothing that deals specifically with upgrading versions. As a fairly experienced Bridge user I'm aware of it's powers and am so disappointed that this is proving to be such as stumbling block. When I upgraded my Lightroom last year the move from one version to the next was totally seemless. And after minor teething trouble with the PSE side of things, that upgrade was also pretty straight forward, but this Bridge issue is really frustrating and I'm wondering whether to abandon this upgrade and go back to using Bridge CS3 (which is still installed and is saving my sanity work wise).
So, please, PLEASE, does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with this?
Thanking you in advance.
PS: I'm not super technical so need serious spoon feeding through this!

Hi Will
Okay, I think I get. That is -if and when- my KW's never come up
again, I have Bridge on a goose chase for a (junk) word. Now when I
place a word in Bridge search box, Bridge will use it's own quotation
marks around your entry word and look for that.
What I mean is, you are not using some kind of Bridge power search
characters for this search that I might not be aware of.
For example, junk, or NOT=junk, or /junk/
One thing that is driving me a bit nutty right now is, after getting
all my old KW's to display by clicking on the image file days ago,
Bridge placed them all under the hierarchy of "Other Keywords",
meaning my directory structure was lost and every kw ended up under
this new heading.
I went and built new category heading for my many KW's and then,
click and moved these under the new headings and then made permanent
all of these KW.
My frustration is now, that Bridge does not respect the fact that I
moved them to different location. That is they are made permanent in
that new location. But when I relaunch Bridge, and my new KWs
organization comes up, it all looks fine. Click on any picture and
Bridge places the old KW in Italics that were listed under Other
Keywords and throws them in Alphabetical order through out my list,
as if the move is not respective. So I now have two key words for
ever one KW wanted.
I understand that if you take someone else folder and place it on
your system and open an image that those key words might best be down
under the heading Other Keywords or in italics, and that you would
not want Bridge to automatically be messing with your own Key Words
structure.
But I moved these keywords, and bridge does not respect that having
been made, and how I want those KW's displayed on my page. The KW
list get vary long and confusing to look at with words out of place
everywhere amongst my new list. Sometimes you get confused which
ones you are suppose to use when new images are brought in.
it is a laborious frustrating process to clean those italic migrant
keywords out to clean up the house so to speak.
you have to find all presence of that kw
select all those images,
deselect them, sometimes reselect then so that you can deselect them
to get them all
then delete those italic KW
then check the box so that all those images have only that KW under
the heading you want permanent.
My machine seems to manage these small word pieces of data
exceedingly slow. So I may have to wait for a minute or longer for
the list to update.
It seems this will take days. and the list could go "poof" again for
all i know.
Thanks again for your comments!

Newbie question on file tags / keywords

Over the last few years I have taken a few thousand pictures and have them organized with tags using Vista Photo Gallery. This application worked great, but I how have purchased Photoshop SC5 and would like to start working with Bridge. I can see the tags that I set in Photo Gallery, but not sure how I can utilize them in Bridge to sort/locate files. Does anyone have any suggestions, since I don’t what to have to manually create a keyword for every tag. Is there any way for me to select all my images and import the data into the Bridge database structure?

keyword/tags in most cases are written to
the image. When you open the image in Bridge and you see the keyword
it should show up in the keyword panel.
If it is italicized it means it is temporary, and will be gone when you shut down bridge. It you want the keyword to be permanent right click on it and select "make persistent" from the fly out menu..

Bridge Keywords and hierarchy

My bridge doesn't let me work hierarchly. There is not the green arrow at the bottom to do so, nor a box to run "search"
Does anybody know how to solve this?
Thank you

Hello Curt
Thank you for your reply.
This Keyword system was working earlier, that is I could shut off the computer and come back to open Bridge and the keywords were there.
As you suggested the keyword did come up in Italics as I began working with them a few days ago, because someone had responded to an old Thread of mine from this site from almost a year ago. Initially there were coming up as persistent in normal font face.
I followed your suggestion with a smaller batch of Keywords, then shut down the computer and, and they were present when the program came back up.
So Thanks, that works.
This will get me back on the right track again with Keywords.
I have no idea what iniciated a change of from persistent keywords to loosing them all in the past. But at least cognitively, I now have a clear process for getting them to show up again on start.
Thanks again for your reply.

Bridge keywords and organization.

Hello, everyone.
I am experiencing some issues with keywords in Bridge and thought I would post a question here in hope someone would be able to help.
FIRST QUESTION:
After creating a keyword catalog in Bridge with a certain hierarchical structure I have decided to make some changes and have found it difficult to do it. Let me illustrate. I had originally created two among many categories that I labeled "Cities" and "Airports". Under both I created the keyword "Miami". After I had assigned the keyword "Miami" under the category "Airport" to some photos I decided it would be best to change the name to "MIA Miami International Airport". I created another keyword labeled "MIA Miami International Airport" under the category "Airports" and tried to delete the entry for "Miami". At first it seems to go way but as soon as I move to another photo the delete keyword "Miami" reappears in under the category but this time it appears italicized.
I also tried to uncheck its box but as I do it another entry of the same name ("Miami") under the category "Cities" is also removed from the list of keywords applied to the image. It seem Bridge can't see the difference between "Miami" in "Cities" from "Miami" in "Airport". How can I resolve this issue ?
SECOND QUESTION:
After creating my hierarchical keyword structure I have decided to rearrange things in a way that seems more logical and intuitive. I tried to drag a keyword from one category to another but as I did it appeared under the other category italicized also. In this case the keyword was transferred to the same level of the hierarchical but I also need to change some arrangements so that some keywords will possibly move to lower levels in the hierarchy. How can this be done so that Bridge in a way that won't confuse Bridge or affect the keywords in my images ?
One thing I wish to add is that the option to apply parent keywords in Bridge's preferences isn't checked. I've opted to apply only the keywords I choose and whenever I feel a parent keyword should also be applied I can do it manually.
Any ideas of how these issues can be resolved ?
TIA,
Joe

I do not use hieracy so you might have to experiment. I do know that if you try to delete a keyword, you have to first have find all instances of the keyword and uncheck the box for each photo. This can best be done with search. If you don't, when you vist another folder that has files using the keyword it will write it back into the keyword panel.
You might want to sit down with a pencil and paper and go through what you want to achieve. It is easier to erase the paper than change the keyword structure.

Bridge in CS5 Mac - newbie trying to keyword my 4000+ photos

I'm an old PC - PS7 user now into Mac and CS5. I thought I would use Bridge to re-organize and keyword some old photos. But I am having difficulties. The keywords I add keep disappearing from the keyword list when I go to a new folder. I need suggestions for set up. Must I put everything into one folder to keep my keyword list available so I don't inadventently make variants like 'graffiti' 'street-graffiti" etc. I see the CS5 help documentation but I can't find the Bridge help/manual. Can you suggest a book or link for me or a procedure?
Thanks so much.
Diane

Look closely at the keywords in the keyword panel. If they are italicized they are temporary and will disappear when rebooting and perhaps changing folders.
If they are italicized right click on them and choose "make persistent".
Hope that helps.

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I just started using bridge and I am having a problem with keywords returning after being removed and deleted. I had originally have a keyword called ohio inside of a places keyword. I decided that I wanted to list it as a keyword inside locations and the USA then Ohio. I created the new keyword and removed the other keyword from all of my files and deleted it. When I applied the new ohio keyword to my ohio photos the old keyword popped back up in italics for some of the photos. Deselecting either ohio now removes both ohios. I tried removing all uses of ohio and restarting the program since I had read that the italics are temporary keywords but as soon as I apply Ohio where I want it it pops back up where I deleted it.
I have no idea what to do to permanently remove it. I have only used Bridge CS5. Checking the file info just lists Location USA Ohio as words. I tried selecting ohio on all the images and then renaming the unwanted ohio but it just added a new keyword and the unwanted ohio stayed. I have tried clearing the cache and preferences and even reinstalled everything. I can not find any pattern to the ohio being retained. It is Raw, PSD and Jpeg images. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Procedure for permanent deletion of a keyword:
The essential principle here is that keywords are tenacious: they must be eradicated from EACH FILE to which they are attached. To eradicate a keyword from images in one folder is thus fairly simple. But to eradicate them from many folders simultaneously requires that all the images from all the folders be displayed so they can all be selected simultaneously.
I recently accomplished this in a heirarchy of image bearing folders in the following way:
Workspace Panels used: Folders, Content, Keywords, Filter
In folders panel: select folder(s) containing problematic keywords
In Contents panels: View: Show Items from Subfolders
In Filter Panel/Keywords subpanel: click on a problematic keyword
In Contents panel: Select files found (select all)
In Keywords panel, select the problematic keyword and uncheck it, then delete it
In Filter panel, click the keyword again (it should disappear)
Environment: CS5, Mac OS 10.7

Keywords in italics

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