More keyword woes

alacranera

I disabled filename keywording on the control panel the moment I read that feature had been instituted.

As of this morning, I'd cleaned out all the auto-generated keywords, which in my case are all numerical. As of this afternoon, they're back. I'd left the browser open, and my site has been busy all day reindexing keywords that I had removed. Despite that "filename keywording" is disabled, and has been for several days. If I open a gallery that has not been opened in a while (because I knew that would start generating trash), it starts auto-indexing keywords out of filenames right before my eyes.

What's up with that? Is auto-generation really optional, or just another "feature" that sounds good, but doesn't work?

I am losing my patience.

Andy

I'm so sorry about this, I don't know what's up until I can see your site. Can you give me a link to your site here, please? Thanks.

EDIT: Found your site, http://alacranera.smugmug.com/.

Andy

Andy wrote:

I'm so sorry about this, I don't know what's up until I can see your site. Can you give me a link to your site here, please? Thanks.

EDIT: Found your site, http://alacranera.smugmug.com/.

Can you now show me the gallery where keywords were re-auto-generated? Paste a link, here, please. Thanks.

alacranera

Andy wrote:

Can you now show me the gallery where keywords were re-auto-generated? Paste a link, here, please. Thanks.

Thanks, Andy. It's not "A" gallery, it's a whole bunch of galleries. But here's a clue for you: I haven't been thru all new keywords, but it seems the galleries that are regenerating keywords are set to "unlisted". I do not see any "public" galleries with this behavior.

Here is one example that is still indexing as I type this. I just now made it a public gallery, because I'm not sure you can see it otherwise: http://alacranera.smugmug.com/Other/200301-Solana-Beach/

devbobo

Filename keywording only ever happens on initial upload. Keywords were extracted and concatentated with iptc keywords and saved into the keyword string. It is this keyword string that is indexed into keywords. So it's not processing filename keywords again, the values already exist in the keyword string.

alacranera

devbobo wrote:

Filename keywording only ever happens on initial upload. Keywords were extracted and concatentated with iptc keywords and saved into the keyword string. It is this keyword string that is indexed into keywords. So it's not processing filename keywords again, the values already exist in the keyword string.

I don't understand this. These were galleries that had never auto-indexed the "junk" keywords ( I assumed because I hadn't opened them since the keyword ails began a few weeks ago). But as of today, they all auto-indexed themselves (and I'd still not opened any of them). The auto-keywords are showing up both in the logged-in keyword string, and in the logged-in indexed keyword search box. There were zero junk keywords left in my indexed keyword search box 5 hours ago, and now there are about 500, and I've not been near the computer all day.

As I said, these all seem to be emanating from "unlisted" galleries, and thus are not showing up in the public (not-logged-in) keyword search.

Whether I'm describing the odd behavior accurately enough for diagnosis, something is badly amiss.