Lost Keywords in Bridge CS3

A few months ago I had some spare time and thought I would create a graphics library in Bridge. We are on CS3. So I went to clipart.com, got about 100 images, mostly PNGs, and loaded them up in bridge. I created about 100 keywords and assigned applicable keywords to the images.
Then I had to do some other things for a month or two.
When I came back to Bridge, my graphics were still there, but all my keywords had vanished and graphics that were tagged with the keywords no longer had the tags either. Would anyone know why? I am using XP SP2 if that helps.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.

Are the keywords still listed in the keywords panel? They should be. Right click on one and then click on Find in flyout menu. Does this bring up the images?

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Hello,
sorry to cause inconvenience to you but i can´t find an answer to my question here in the forum.
I read a lot of similar threads, but no one answerd my problem BridgeCS3 <-> PSE6.
What i have:
Bridge CS3 / Photoshop CS3 / Photoshop Elements 6.0
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At this time i organize all my photos with the Organizer of PSE6 and put keywords
with the Tags-function from PSE6 to my photos.
Now i want to change to the bridge to organize my photos.
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Now i need a functionality to import all my keywords/tags from PSE6 into the bridge.
What i have done until now:
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and useable Keywords coming into the bridge.
So... is it general possible to import the Tags/Structure form PSE6 into the BridgeCS3 ??
And when... what´s my fault? Can you give me a hint?
Thanks for help.
Bye

There was a post some time ago that I will try to recall - hopefully not too inaccurately. I have never used PSE so don't really know what you are trying to do.
The way I remember it PSE uses some sort of a table for the keywords. Bridge does not, but embeds the information as metadata to each file. Apparently this is more of a standardized format for the data and can be used by other applications.
For a clearer explanation on how the information is handled go to Bridge Help and type in metadata. It does say something about ability to export metadata so maybe that would work for you.
Before you go to all that effort you might investigate how PSE Organizer may handle the data in the future. Can never tell - the next upgrade may change that feature also. Perhaps PSE forum?

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[email protected] wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> I am trying to get my mind around Indexing, as I think this is the
> root of your question. It appears that until you open the file and
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>
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Thanks again Jim
This was not the answer I wanted to hear. So I contacted Adobe directly- They are very quick- they responded within 24 hours via email of course and reiterated what you said- I guess I just needed "official" word from Adobe, before I went to plan B
Anyways If anyone ever has problems like this where you got a bunch of .m1v files and you need to tag them with metadata- I suggest to do what I am doing and download tmpegenc it is a great little piece of software that will convert your .m1v files to .mpg files that you can now tag within bridge, Beauty
I will NEVER export to .m1v AGAIN
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That doesn't sound right to me.
My path wasn't quite correct it should have been
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Harper The Explorer
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
these keywords do not get written to the file! They seem to exist only in the iPhoto database
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iPhoto is your photo organiser, so the idea is that you don't search in Spotlight but in iPhoto or in a media browser that hooks into iPhoto. Remember, if you're using iPhoto you can't really access the files via the Finder anyway.(* See Below for more)
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However, if I import a file to iPhoto that has no IPTC keywords on it, and then I add keywords with iPhoto, iPhoto will write these keywords to the file. So it appears that iPhoto won't write out IPTC keywords if the file already has them.
I'm afraid that I'm not sure the point you're making. iPhoto will read the IPTC tags and add to them on export.
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2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
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TD

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