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Library module macOS photo app (non-Adobe) with keywords to team up with Lr Classic?

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I know, the title may sound weird, but bear with me. I have a fully well treated Lr Classic library with keyworded photos. I am looking for a convenient way to share some smart collections containing practical photos (such as receipts, caravan or car maintenance shots, tyre dates etc.) with my family, so they can filter photos using multiple keywords. For instance, my wife should be able to find all travel photos with the caravan tyres so she searches for "travel" and "caravan" and "tyre".
Options I see:
- Lr mobile with synced collections: not enough space in my plan and not suitable for MacBook
- import into my Apple Photos library and share the Album: too many uninteresting photos of mine that will mix with their own photos
- Synology Photos: promising (as I own a Synology NAS) but only one keyword limit in the search field

As a bonus, the app should bind to a shared folder on my NAS so whenever I add images to that folder, these images are added to the app's catalog automatically.

Any other macOS apps you know that would do the job? The app will not need to perform any editing, it's only for library search.

Or would an unregistered Lr Classic instance do the job?
 
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Okay so for the most part, I think I can solve my own question: good old Finder (the Mac's version of Windows Explorer). It will search for multiple terms and also look in sub folders.
What I cannot get my head around is that one keyword in Lr Classic appears to fail to export, but that is probably a separate issue.
 
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Check the settings on the KW that won't export. (edit the KW and look at the check boxes)

Look at the following. first 3 are free (depending on number of images) or you're already paying for them with your Adobe Plan.
  • Shared Collections in LrC and/or LR (creates a web page per selected LrC collection)
  • Adobe Portfolio (Builds a website with images in albums
  • Export to a cloud sharing site such as Google Photos, Apple Photos, Etc.
  • Using publish services to maintain a web based repository such as SmugMug, Flickr, Zenfolio, Etc.
 
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I think you can sync all of the LrC images that you want to the Adobe Cloud. LrC sends a smart preview to the Adobe Cloud and none counts against your 20GB plan. Keywords Transfer one way 9to the cloud) one time. So this should be what you need. You can Access the Adobe Cloud Albums using Lightroom for the Web Website if the client is a MacBook or Lightroom Mobile if the client is a mobile device.


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Califdan said:
Check the settings on the KW that won't export. (edit the KW and look at the check boxes)
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Hi Dan, thanks for your suggestions. I have a keyword "Pixie" (our cat) that won't export. I tried "Pix" and that does export, as do all of the other keywords. I examined the Pixie keyword properties but all checkboxes are checked. Should I try to recreate the keyword? Could the database have gone bad?
 
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Selwin said:
Hi Dan, thanks for your suggestions. I have a keyword "Pixie" (our cat) that won't export. I tried "Pix" and that does export, as do all of the other keywords. I examined the Pixie keyword properties but all checkboxes are checked. Should I try to recreate the keyword? Could the database have gone bad?
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Problem solved, but I don't know how. I came back to this issue today, after a month. I added a new keyword "PixieCat" and also kept the issue-keyword "Pixie". When I exported the same photo again, both keywords got exported. After deleting the "PixieCat" keyword from the keywords list (and thus from the photo), the "Pixie" keyword still got exported on a new export.

I even selected all photos containing the "Pixie" keyword (54 out of 161k images) and they all exported with the Pixie keyword just fine.

I'm not sure if this could be related to Lr release changes as I usually install all .dot and .dot.dot update and I forget about when I installed which release.

Bottom line: problem solved.
 
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