Mark Sirota;3''7' said:
And if you can't drag-and-drop because these are beyond the visible keyword limit, then I'd suggest selecting the images with yoga in them and exporting those as a catalog. In that catalog, perhaps you'll be able to do the drag-and-drop.
Then you'd re-import those into your main catalog, which would fix the images.
Now you'd have to export your keyword list and edit that, then re-import it, to fix the keyword list itself.
If some other Guru could double-check me on whether that would work, I'd appreciate it. Haven't done any testing on this one.
No Lightroom at work so, once home, I downloaded Paul's Keywords file
(LR_pp.txt). Then I created a new Catalog and imported those. I easily dragged those beneath Yoga as top level and exported as LR_pp_FIX.txt.
The content of the new file was starting with 5'' as expected, the word Yoga appeared far below after the Ws but! The paragraph like group of words at the beginning was still there. Not seeing any tight relation between them, I just put them on their own lines without the extra spaces convinced that the alphabelital order was of no importance at this point. In fact, you can import keywords randomly and more than once from different files if needed.
Back to Lightroom having no images imported, I choose Menu, Metadata, Purge Unused Keywords to go back to a new Catalog state. I then reimported LR_pp_FIX.txt and all keywords fell in place alphabetically.
As Paul did not sent his Catalog
(we do not need images nor previews, just the .lrcat), I wasn't able to test if I can reimport with it not loosing the relationship with his photos and see if the hirearchy will change or stay the same. THIS, I DO NOT KNOW!
So, again Paul, it is suggested that you send us your .lrcat file so I
(we) can repair without importing/exporting keywords. I just wonder how to proceed depending on the size of that file. My FTP site is down for the moment... :frown:
In case you want to play with it yourself Paul, be sure to have a WORKING backup of your Catalog and here is the fixed keywords file you can import back as an attachement.