photos keywords case sensitivity

I can't remember for Sierra, but it is working for High Sierra:

I just tested again, and using the Keyword Manager I could create keywords "v" and "V" in the Edit pane of the Keyword Manager. This created different keyword shortcuts, and using the keyword shortcuts I could assign both keywords.

I’ll rephrase my question into two questions: 1) Has someone successfully utilized all shortcut keys A through Z and a through z in Photos under Sierra? 2) If so, how did you avoid Photos replacing the lower case of a shortcut key letter with its upper case? As stated, I successfully created both ‘m’ AND ‘M’, but only ‘v’ OR ‘V’, not both. Thanks.

It's easier to correct this problem (bug) in later versions.

If you have the keywords "Bird" and "bird", find all the photos with both (smart album or search).

Select all with ⌘A and open the Info panel with ⌘I. You will see the both keywords, with grey text. Add the keyword "Bird" again. The text of the keyword with turn black, meaning that it is on all the photos. Then delete the keyword "bird".

Final step is to go to the keyword manager and delete "bird".

I have just encountered this - I have 2x keywords. I have (accidently) created "jd-iPhone6" and "JD-iPhone6"
But as the OP says, there does not seem to be a way to filter by them (lower case one) individually.

The search only shows the "upper-case" JD-iPhone. Given there are over 700 photos - it's going to be a rather annoying manual process to view the Info on all of them one at a time to find the lower-case "jd-".

(if I bother at all...)

Photos: 1.5 (370.42.0)

OSX: El Capitan (10.11.5 (15F34))

Thanks in advance...

- jd

I am using this work-around to fix keywords with the wrong lower case or upper case:

• First I create a smart album with all photos that have either of the keywords that need to be fixed.
• Then I assign a new keyword "Dummy" to all photos in this smart album.
• Now I open the Keyword Manager window and delete both wrong versions of the keyword, to remove them completely from all photos and the list of keywords.
• Then I assign the a new, correctly spelled keyword to all photos in the Dummy smart album and delete the Dummy keyword as well.

This will work in all cases, where the incorrectly spelled keyword is not embedded in the EXIF tags of the original image files. If the keywords with bad spelling are in the EXIF tags of the imported image files, they have to be removed from the original files with exiftool or some tool, that can edit EXIF tags.

I had accidentally written incorrectly spelled keywords to the original files while I have been using Aperture, and those typos have been migrated to Photos. when I am seeing such a wrong keyword, Ihave to export the photo and to fix it outside Photos.

Thanks léonie. This worked a treat.

You're welcome 🙂

I have a situation where I'm able to quick group images in one group with keyword 'm' and another with keyword 'M', but not able assign keyword 'V' because I have 'v' assigned. Why the inconsistency?

You asked, "Why the inconsistency?"

Nobody here knows the answer to "why" anything. We're almost all just users helping each other.