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Good morning,
I would like to completely empty my keyword library but the deletion of keywords crashes.
Sincerely
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You can delete a keyword library if you click on the ... by the name of the keyword library. So here I have a keyword library called Living Things, which contains my keywords for animals, birds, plants, insects and so on. You'll see that the menu that comes up includes the option to delete that library. I know you said that you just want to empty it, but there is no harm in deleting it and creating one of the same name again afterwards.
Alternatively, you can navigate to where keyword libraries are stored in Windows File Explorer. I'm on a Mac, and for me they are in Application Support in the Mac Library like this.
I believe that on Windows, there are similar folders and files in the AppData folder.
With Capture One closed, if I were to delete one of the sets of keywords here, then on reopening Capture One that keyword library would not appear.
Deleting a keyword library would not remove keywords from individual images.
Ian
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Good morning,
Thank you for your very precise and detailed answer. Alas I want to delete the base library and this doesn't seem to be possible and I can't find the file. Your answer works with a created library but not with the base one.
A big thank-you0 -
You're right - you can only delete keyword libraries that you have created.
So, I wonder why deleting keywords crashes? Do you mean deleting keywords from a particular image, or deleting a keyword in the library list? If it's the latter, does it happen every time you try to delete a keyword, or only with some words?
Ian
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I've had problems with deleting keywords from the built-in Library as well.
Even when only trying to delete one keyword it sometimes crashes, but often just takes ages - it may take 10, 15 minutes, or even an hour or more. A number of times I've just forced it to close with Task Manager.
(it's not my system, it's gossly over-spec'd - any doubts? I can have four editors open, 8 Explorer windows, Outlook, web browser with a number of tabs, +++, and no lag whatsoever)
Worst of all I sometimes discover later that one or more other keywords have been deleted as well! This was a massive disaster!
I submitted a Support Request about 2 years ago, but after much trying and correspondence between us they were unable to replicate it.BUT . . . only recently I've worked out how to get around this:
Select an image in the browser with no keywords then delete the keyword(s) from the Library.
Since you are trying to delete all keywords from the Library, it might also be a good idea to first delete any keywords from all your images. This would probably significantly reduce the amount of "crunching" it needs to do by breaking it up into two distinct processes. I suspect this is where Capture One is getting into a tizz. If it's having a problem with one keyword then imagine how it feels about the whole Library.The problem seems to be this: when you select a keyword to delete from the Library you will notice that it makes an orange border around that keyword. At the same time you will also notice that when you have an image selected which has keywords, that those keywords are filled in grey. It seems that Capture One has a problem in dealing with this and may cause it to hang up, and even end up deleting some of those greyed keywords, sometimes. Sometimes there are also keywords in the Library with a heavy white border (still haven't worked out why) which may also be a problem.
So try this and I'll be very interested to hear how it goes for you.
I would also suggest it might be wise to first delete any keywords from all your images. You could try without doing this first but if it takes a really long time or crashes, then that might be the answer.0 -
Also just thought of something else: are you working in a Catalog or Session?
If it's a Session there might be another problem. Let me know and I'll explain0 -
Good morning
Thanks for your advice and help. I am on a catalog and after many attempts, I succeeded by following your suggestions. Sometimes Capture One crashed, sometimes impossible to delete a keyword (which was not attached to any photo). There remained 4 impossible to delete but this morning I succeeded.
Thank you so much0 -
Ok, that's good. Glad it worked.
Capture One can start misbehaving in all kinds of strange ways and and the first option to always try is simply close the app and re-open it, and it comes good again.
One more thing I didn't think of before, even though you're all done now, but in case the need arises again in the future, is to, instead of trying to delete all the keywords at once, try deleting in smaller blocks of 5 or 10 or 20 or however many it seems to be able to cope with (unless you already did that anyway).0
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