- Joined
- Jun 20, 2009
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- 21,575
- Location
- Houston, TX USA
- Lightroom Experience
- Power User
- Lightroom Version
- Cloud Service
- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom 4.3, Lightroom Classic v10.3
- Operating System
- macOS 11 Big Sur
- iOS
A Little background:
When I began using Lightroom (now Classic) I established a hierarchal keyword list. This worked well for me until I started using Lightroom (cloudy) At some point, my keyword lists got into a jumbled mess with som hierarchic keywords and some flat. Sometimes the same keyword in the hierarchy and as a flat keyword.
Once I determined how Classic and cloudy keywords interacted with each other (or didn't interact) I kind of dropped the keyword part of my workflow. I have no decided to replace the Classic hierarchy with a flat list. I would ideally like this flat list appear in Classic and Cloudy. I am hopeful that at some point Adobe will sync cloudy and classic keywords as a two way exchange. For Now, I understand that keywords in Classic will not sync to existing images in Cloudy but will get added to cloudy when new proxy images are added to cloudy from Classic. Once an image is in Cloudy, changes in Classic keyword are not made in the "cloudy" keywords associated with that image And changes in cloudy are not propagated back to Classic.
Optimistically hoping that there will one day exist a common syncable keyword process between Classic and Cloudy, I want to get my Classic Keywords clean and usable again. For now I am content to convert my hierarchal keyword list to a flat list. BUT, I have a problem with the keywords that are in cloudy. I would like to remove these keywords in some batch process so that no keywords are stored in my cloudy library. With 20,000 images in my cloudy library, I can not find a way to remove keywords except one image at a time. Does any one have any suggestions?
When I began using Lightroom (now Classic) I established a hierarchal keyword list. This worked well for me until I started using Lightroom (cloudy) At some point, my keyword lists got into a jumbled mess with som hierarchic keywords and some flat. Sometimes the same keyword in the hierarchy and as a flat keyword.
Once I determined how Classic and cloudy keywords interacted with each other (or didn't interact) I kind of dropped the keyword part of my workflow. I have no decided to replace the Classic hierarchy with a flat list. I would ideally like this flat list appear in Classic and Cloudy. I am hopeful that at some point Adobe will sync cloudy and classic keywords as a two way exchange. For Now, I understand that keywords in Classic will not sync to existing images in Cloudy but will get added to cloudy when new proxy images are added to cloudy from Classic. Once an image is in Cloudy, changes in Classic keyword are not made in the "cloudy" keywords associated with that image And changes in cloudy are not propagated back to Classic.
Optimistically hoping that there will one day exist a common syncable keyword process between Classic and Cloudy, I want to get my Classic Keywords clean and usable again. For now I am content to convert my hierarchal keyword list to a flat list. BUT, I have a problem with the keywords that are in cloudy. I would like to remove these keywords in some batch process so that no keywords are stored in my cloudy library. With 20,000 images in my cloudy library, I can not find a way to remove keywords except one image at a time. Does any one have any suggestions?