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Lightroom Classic: Keyword hierarchies not being broken up when synced to Lightroom CC
My workflow has, for several years, been to import my shoots with Photo Mechanic because it speeds up certain parts of the process. I have always done my keywording in PM with pipes as separators (no spaces, so (top level)|(sub level)|(etc)). The keyword hierarchies have always displayed properly in Classic CC, with just the bottom level of each hierarchy visible, but the entire hierarchy has always been visible in LR CC as a collection of separate, flat keywords (just as with exported shots).
However, my recent imports, while still looking the same in Classic CC, are now problematic in LR CC - the hierarchies apparently aren't being broken up on import, so in Lightroom CC, instead of seeing USA, CT, and New Haven as separate keywords, I'm now seeing USA|CT|New Haven.
Was a change made somewhere that is causing this? If so, how do I adjust for it so that the keywords get broken up properly in LR CC?
However, my recent imports, while still looking the same in Classic CC, are now problematic in LR CC - the hierarchies apparently aren't being broken up on import, so in Lightroom CC, instead of seeing USA, CT, and New Haven as separate keywords, I'm now seeing USA|CT|New Haven.
Was a change made somewhere that is causing this? If so, how do I adjust for it so that the keywords get broken up properly in LR CC?
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As described in this thread https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-classic-cc-keyword-hierarchies-not-... , it appears that Lightroom Classic CC is writing keywords that Lightroom CC is able to display after initial upload using the "lr:hierarchicalSubject" section of the XMP sidecar rather than the flattened "dc:subject" section. While this maintains the keyword hierarchy that Lightroom CC doesn't otherwise support, it leaves the keywords in ugly strings (top_level|sub1|sub2|sub3) rather than a set of separate keywords. This seems odd, since Lightroom CC does away with hierarchical keywords entirely, so why read from the XMP section that explicitly applies to keyword hierarchies?
This change seems to have happened over a year ago, but I didn't notice it because I was only using Lightroom CC for certain parts of my workflow where keywords weren't ever a consideration, and the large bulk of my library wasn't uploaded. It may relate to the change from Lightroom CC 6.x to 7.x - that's when the switch happens in the files I've looked at.
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