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Is it possible to stop Lightroom from re-sorting keywords alphabetically?
If you mean the number of keywords applied per photo, my Search Replace plugin's Parse and Audit feature will do it.Also, is there anyway to get a count number of the keywords?
If you have 910 keywords (as I do) how would you find the one in the middle if they were not in some kind of order? If you like you can place them in hierarchies. Each level of the hierarchy will be sorted Alphanumerically. and keywords with in each family will be sorted alphanumerically.really annoying though that you can't prevent Lightroom from re-ordering!!!
Not quite, Tony. On Windows, LR can only display 2000 keywords in a flat list. This is because Adobe have failed to code around a Windows system limit on the size of individual controls.A hierarchy is the only way manage an extensive keyword collection, mine is 25 000 and growing all the time.
Also, using a flat list of keywords will limit one to about 2000 keywords if memory serves. there is some issue with the database that Lightroom is based on that limits this.
Thanks for the correction on the point of fact John - as it turns out I didn't remember the exact detail.Not quite, Tony. On Windows, LR can only display 2000 keywords in a flat list. This is because Adobe have failed to code around a Windows system limit on the size of individual controls....
John
If you are looking at the Keywording panel you should see hierarchial keywords that have ambiguity listed with the ">" separating the child from the parentI am not trying to hi-jack the thread but my question relates to keywords and what I would assume is a hierarchy.
I have keywords with subwords, example, Texas > Houston. I don't recall how I managed to do this but I don't want this matchup. I want Texas and/or Houston to stand alone. I have gone to an image and tried to remove Texas or Houston. When I click off the image and back on to it the hierarchy is still there. How do I delete this setup?
Thanks in advance!