Dave Hartley

Looks like I hit another bug in Lightroom 2.0, this time with keywording.

I had a set of 12 images in a collection. I selected all twelve and applied a keyword to them (eg. “AAAAA”). Then I hit command-L to switch off the catalog filters. I then went to the Keyword list panel and confirmed that the number of images with the keyword was indeed 12. I then clicked on the right arrow for the keyword “AAAAA”.

This should result in the filter bar popping up and I would expect to see my twelve images. Instead I only saw six and the Library Filter keyword for “AAAAA” has the number six by it. If I go to each individual file in its folder and check the keyword tags I correctly see the keyword “AAAAA” for each of them. The Catalog has “All Photographs” selected, so it is not as if I am only searching a subset of my catalog. If I go to the folder(s) where the files are located and individually remove and then re-add the keyword, I see the image I just “keyword-fixed” pop up in the filter search. So, it seems to me there is a bug when applying keywords to images in a collection. That is pretty scary!

Note that the images are not stacked so we can discount that. To clarify what I mean by this, suppose you have an image in the catalog which has a raw file and a photoshop file. The two images are stacked and contain the keyword “BBB”. In this case, the keyword panel will say “2″ next to the keyword “BBB” and when you click the right arrow, you will see the images stacked with the filter saying “1″ (as the image is stacked). This seems to be the current behavior of Lightroom.

I’d be interested to know if anyone else has seen this problem.

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