KrisCarnmarker
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For those of us who have a lot of keywords in LR, the lack of searching capabilities is a problem. I use the The Controlled Vocabulary Keyword Catalog, which consists of 11000 keywords. As you can imagine, finding and navigating to the right keyword is tedious.
So, I wrote this little tool to help me out. It reads the keywords (Keyword Tags in LR speak) straight from the the LR catalog and allows me to search and navigate the hierarchy. Once I find the right keyword, I can "Copy" the keyword to the clipboard. This copies a text representation of the keyword which can by used the LR painter tool.
The tool only reads from the catalog; you cannot edit the keywords. If you decide to use this, I would suggest you point it to a copy of your Lightroom Catalog, at least until you feel confident that it is not destroying anything and not writing anything to the catalog.
Anyway, I decided to make it available to my fellow OPFers.
It requires Java 5 or later. It is not 100% pure Java, because the 100% pure Java database driver for the LR database (SQLite) is just too slow. Instead, I use the native interface drivers. Included in the Zip file are native libraries for Windows and OSX. Please see the readme file for details.
It can be downloaded from here.
And here's a screen shot.
Needless to say, this comes with no warranties, support, responsibilities, etc. Use AS-IS!
Comments are welcome!
So, I wrote this little tool to help me out. It reads the keywords (Keyword Tags in LR speak) straight from the the LR catalog and allows me to search and navigate the hierarchy. Once I find the right keyword, I can "Copy" the keyword to the clipboard. This copies a text representation of the keyword which can by used the LR painter tool.
The tool only reads from the catalog; you cannot edit the keywords. If you decide to use this, I would suggest you point it to a copy of your Lightroom Catalog, at least until you feel confident that it is not destroying anything and not writing anything to the catalog.
Anyway, I decided to make it available to my fellow OPFers.
It requires Java 5 or later. It is not 100% pure Java, because the 100% pure Java database driver for the LR database (SQLite) is just too slow. Instead, I use the native interface drivers. Included in the Zip file are native libraries for Windows and OSX. Please see the readme file for details.
It can be downloaded from here.
And here's a screen shot.
Needless to say, this comes with no warranties, support, responsibilities, etc. Use AS-IS!
Comments are welcome!
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