Limit to the number of keywords displayed?

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Limit to the number of keywords displayed?

I´m running macOS 10.14 Mojave with Photos 4.0 on a late 2017 27" iMac. Is there a limit to the number of keywords that can shown when you click on the little downward arrow at the top right? I was adding new keywords to my main library, and ended up with a total of 42 keywords…but only 38 are shown in the vertical list that appears, the top 4 are cut off and there is no scroll bar. To show what I mean I set up a test library to make two screenshots. The first shows the 42 keywords in the Keyword manager:

And this shows how keywords 01 to 04 are cut off in the vertical list, and no scroll bar:

Is this a bug or was there always a limit for the vertical list? There really should be a scroll bar. I can´t remember if it was always like this, because I´ve never had so many keywords in a library before! And yes, it doesn´t work when booted into Safe Mode either. I know you can search by typing a keyword in the search bar (and for multiple keywords by typing a space between) but I´ve been used for years to clicking on the little arrow! Thanks for any help/suggestions! Regards, Ian.

Posted on Oct 4, 2018 9:04 AM

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Answer 1

léonie

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Oct 4, 2018 12:24 PM in response to Ian Leckie

The keyword list in the "Showing" filter is showing only photos from the upper half of the keywords list, your quick group with the keyboard short cuts. You can define more keywords as shown by OT, that are not in the Quick Group and "Showing" filter. And the list is limited additionally by the size and resolution of the display, because the scrollbar is missing. I can see a longer list, when I increase the resolution of the display in the System Preferences > Displays. When I set this to "Scaled > More space", the list of keywords I can see in the "Showing" filter will be longer. But the scaled size is harder to read. With "Scaled > More Space", I can see 40 items, with "Scaled > Default" only thirty.

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Ian Leckie Author

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Oct 5, 2018 2:59 AM in response to léonie

Thanks for replying, léonie! Your answer and Old Toad´s has solved this for me 🙂 I've simply removed a number of less-used keywords from the Quick Group to the Keywords section, and I can now see everything I really want to in the "Showing" filter. But there really should be a scroll bar, imho, and I've sent Apple feedback about this. I also tried reducing the screen resolution as you suggested, and while I can then see everything it´s just too difficult for me to read without straining! 😟 Regards, Ian.

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Ian Leckie Author

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Oct 5, 2018 2:52 AM in response to Old Toad

Thanks so much for replying, Old Toad, and for taking the effort to make a gif animation for me! For some reason I've been confused about the difference between Quick Group and Keywords, and your animation has finally cleared this up for me! Regards, Ian.

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léonie

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Oct 5, 2018 3:33 AM in response to Ian Leckie

But there really should be a scroll bar, imho, and I've sent Apple feedback about this

Indeed. A scrollbar would help a lot, if we need a long quick group. It is limited anyway by the number of letters in the alphabet, because each quick group keywords needs a one-letter keyboard shortcut.

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