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Q: photos keywords case sensitivity

Using Photos Version 1.0 (209.52.0), it seems that keywords are case insensitive when Photos searches, but they are case sensitive when typing them in.  It is very annoying to type, for example, "KEyword" accidentally then Photos will have two keywords in the Keyword Manager: one for "Keyword" and one for "KEyword", but they are really the same keyword. If I try to delete the bad one it says that there are many photos associated with it; the same ones as the correct keyword. Is there a way to merge keywords? I tried making a smart album with just the bad keyword but all the photos were found from both.

Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Apr 25, 2015 8:37 AM

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Q: photos keywords case sensitivity

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  • by jon driscoll,

    jon driscoll jon driscoll Jul 7, 2016 5:22 PM in response to CasaJ
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    Jul 7, 2016 5:22 PM in response to CasaJ

    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.

    Screenshot 2016-07-08 09.47.54.png

    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

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 7, 2016 11:18 PM in response to CasaJ
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    Jul 7, 2016 11:18 PM in response to CasaJ

    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.

  • by jon driscoll,

    jon driscoll jon driscoll Jul 9, 2016 5:25 PM in response to léonie
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    Photos for Mac
    Jul 9, 2016 5:25 PM in response to léonie

    Thanks léonie. This worked a treat.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 10, 2016 12:32 AM in response to jon driscoll
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    Jul 10, 2016 12:32 AM in response to jon driscoll

    You're welcome