Lightroom Classic: Chokes on large keyword lists (Windows only)

If you're on a Mac, try Option-clicking the green dot in the upper left corner, the maximize window button. That should re-fit the window to your screen. I'm not sure if Alt-click does the same on Windows, though.

Hello Anita
On Windows I unfortunately see no green dot - I've tried a few other options but nothing seems to make any difference.
The other keyword issue I mentioned is now fixed but this problem is still in place so it means that they were not related.
Scott

Hi Scott,

This is a bug on Windows. The keyword list stops functioning after about 1630 or so keywords. The bug has been logged.

The one workaround we've found is to make the keyword list hierarchical by nesting keyword families together. This will shorten the list and allow more keywords to be viewed and/or selected and used.

Becky

Lightroom LR3, LR4, LR4.1RC2: When working with a very long keyword list (~1500) and scolling down with the mouse wheel, the focus get lost after estimated ~1000 entries and the keywords below could not be selected. This error exists since several versions.
Workaround: using a keyword filter shortens the list and allows the selection.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Lightroom LR3, LR4, LR4.1RC2: long keyword list looses focus.

The same limitation occurs with the Keyword column in the Library Filter Metadata browser -- if more than a couple thousand keywords are showing (e.g. in Flat View), LR starts acting erratically.

Collapsing the hierarchy in the column isn't always a viable workaround. The only way in LR to reliably find photos explicitly assigned with a parent keyword is to use Flat View in the Keyword column.

also experienced by me, and sometimes it even crashes LR & laptop
not good - very annoying indeed.
quite unbelievable that this has been hanging around unaddressed for so long

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Why has selecting a keyword with a mouse click in Lightroom5 suddenly stopped working?.

I have been working with Lightroom5.3. My list of keywords had gotten long so I experimented with adding hierarchy. I seemed to work as advertised with dragging other keywords under the parent keyword.

I left to do some other tasks. When I resumed I could no longer highlight (or select) a keyword in the list of all the keywords, let alone drag it.

I am using Windows 8.

I recently started experiencing this problem. And this is happening in a program that is supposed to help in tagging photos? Still, seeing that this topic is 4 years old and the issue has not been fixed, does not surprise me. There are many relevant bugs that have been reported and acknowledged since 3-4 years ago, but they are never fixed.

I don't agree with LR team's priorities (or maybe it's marketing priorites) - I think bugs from 4 years ago should be fixed before adding new features like the ones in LR CC.

I'm having this same issue on Lightroom CC (2015) - the newest version. I can't believe they still haven't addressed this issue! >.< Wow... 

I just tested this problem on Windows 10 with LR CC 2015.6, and the limit is now about 3270 keywords, just about twice the former limit of about 1630.  I wonder if Windows 10 has doubled the maximum size of the underlying Windows control (which was formerly limited to 2^15 ~~ 33,000 pixels).

I have the same problem with showing lists of keywords. My catalogue contains about 280.000 pictures, all with several keywords and now it is very problematic that not all keywords are shown in selections that are rather big (several thousands of pictures). I realy hope Adobe will address this beacause otherwise LR becomes rather useless for me.....
 

How can Adobe not fix this? Limiting users in this way for so long is unconscionable.

I had issues reorganizing my keyword list hierarchically as suggested, as LR (7.1 on Win 10) froze on every second move. Asking for help I was pointed to this thread. Seems pretty similar, possibly related.
As IT pro I got curious and dug into the SQLite DB (which is the catalog). I found some redundancy in the tables and something that worries me: the ids for all keywords along a path down hierarchy to any keyword are stored with this keyword as a string. This could be a potential issue with deeply nested hierarchies.
Currently I am at 2157 keywords on my list with 1841 being on the top-level. Bit by bit I manage to get more structure into it and bring LR back to life. Not really happy.
Henrik Zawischa

I have a very strongly structured keyword hierarchy of over 33,000 keywords (yes, I know!) and I'm getting the screen blanking issue when I enter a keyword starting with "S".

I haven't really had any other issues, but this screen blanking issue is a real pain in the backside.

Is there any plan to fix this issue?