Heh. Just looke through the thread in the archive, and apparently I'm just repeating myself. :-( Sorry about the wasted bandwidth. Jostein
2009/10/5 AlunFoto <[email protected]>: > Boris, > It's inside the catalog. > What you ought to do is to export the keywords. THen you get a > structured text file which you can edit in a standard editor, and then > import back into LR afterwards. > > There's one important thing you need to know, though, which I didn't > know myself when I wrote the below. > Let's call the hierarchy a "tree" -structure. Each category holding > subcategories or keywords will then be a "branch", and the endpoints, > the most detailed keywords, will be "leaves". > > The important thing is this: when you re-import the keywords to LR, > the program is bright enough to understand it if you add more leaves > to a branch, or if you add another branch to the tree. But it does NOT > understand it if you move a leaf from one branch to another. Then you > will end up with two keywords with the same name on different > branches. To update the keywords on your existing files, you will have > to add the new and remove the old keyword for all affected images. > > Jostein > > 2009/10/4 Boris Liberman <[email protected]>: >> Jostein, do you also happen to know where LR2 stores the keywords it knows, >> as I'd like to play with it some having read your story below? >> >> Boris >> >> >>> I never saw the LR1. >>> In v2, you can create a text file with a certain indented format, that >>> will import to LR as a hierarchy. It works like this: >>> >>> Animals >>> Pets >>> Cats >>> Dogs >>> Livestock >>> Pigs >>> Horses >>> >>> If you assign the keyword "Horses" to a picture, it automatically also >>> gets Animals and Livestock. >>> >>> If you want a keyword "container" that's supposed to be just a >>> placeholder for terms, not a keyword you can enclose it in square >>> brackets, eg. "[Animals]". Assigning the keyword "Horses" to an image >>> will then make LR supply Livestock, but not Animals. >>> >>> Further, you can supply synonyms by using curly brackets: >>> >>> [Animals] >>> .... >>> Livestock >>> Pigs >>> {Swines} >>> Horses >>> {Equines} >>> >>> "equines" is now a synonym for Horses, meaning that when assigning >>> "Horses" to an image, it also becomes searchable for the synonym. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
