Migrating from Lightroom Classic to PM6+

[Michael Naylor]

Keith,

Thank you for this.  You've given me hope and something to build on.  I was expecting this migration would be reasonably painless, but it's going to take considerable effort.  And this isn't the only hurdle I'm facing.  I wish I'd not allowed myself to be suckered into Adobe's hierarchical nonsense.   Unfortunately for CameraBits, many others will not be able or willing to go to these lengths.

[Michael Naylor]

I disagree.  It's working perfectly fine.  How would you specify that we treat the hierarchical keywords "correctly" that is different from the way that we're currently treating them?

Kirk, we could agree to disagreed, but it is not working perfectly fine - its creating an unnecessary mess.

You could implement in full the way Adobe has chosen or better still, ignore them all together.

It's not necessary to read Adobe's hierarchical keywords, because they are designed to work with Lightroom.

Lightroom also writes flat keywords (which are the same as your IPTC keywords) and those are all that's needed.

Ignore Adobe's and the problem is solved - no mess and nothing lost.  Q.E.D.

[Kirk Baker]

Michael,

I've no intention of loosing data, but please note: If you do a save from the Info pane, PM gives an error msg saying it can't read the caption.

Can you post a screenshot of the message displayed, and can you share the file that produces the error message?

Thanks,

-Kirk

[KeithRJ]

Michael, I personally use hierarchical keywords on certain scenarios and find them very useful so don't discount them.

I used to use Lightroom and hierarchical keywords but without the tags and they migrated pretty well into PMP. Maybe test by removing the tags to see what happens.