ImageIDs suddenly generating keywords - unwanted!!

WinsomeWorks

I just noticed in this gallery: http://www.winsomeworks.com/Friends/In-Memoriam/Becky-Family-Home-Trips/26343370_x9qkKN#!i=2199619886&k=H6XcBrX that there are keywords being generated from some of the image IDs! I don't know of any place I have this capability turned on, and I absolutely want it to stop. I don't know why it's happening. I haven't gotten far enough to find out if it's going on anywhere else in my galleries. I pray not, as I have thousand of chosen keywords and don't want to have to clean this up. The gallery I linked had an upload link so that others could upload to it. But I have my keywords hidden, and I'm sure the people uploading to the gallery didn't add the types of keywords that have been added (such as camera numbers). They've clearly been generated automatically. What's more, they were not there last week, or the week that the photos were added. They just showed up in the past few days, as far as I can tell.

I really don't want to leave these keywords there, as I was about to make the gallery public. But I'll try to leave them there while it's being checked out. Please try to find help on this soon, as I hate to make it public with the mess it'll add to my keywords. One more note: oddly, this problem isn't happening on every photo in the gallery. I see no difference between those where it's happening & those where it's not.

rainforest1155

Hi Anna Lisa,

Actually, the keywords are included in your original files already when you upload them. I checked out the file you link to and the original downloaded, shows the keyword SmugMug imported as a tag in Windows Explorer if you right-click on the file and select properties > details tab:

Perhaps it's something the Windows Photo editor or any other software you opened / edited the program with?

You can give it a try and upload a photo straight from your camera (that has not been opened or edited in any program) and you'll see that it won't show any keywords on SmugMug.

WinsomeWorks

Ok, I see what's going on now. Like I said, these are not photos I uploaded. These were photos uploaded by others to the gallery in question. I have to admit now that I got panicked! The thing is, these keywords didn't show up for a couple days, nor were they showing up on every photo. But I see these were separate issues. One issue is due to the still-persisting & highly annoying SmugMug bug that I've reported a number of times in this forum... the one where keywords don't show up when added to a blank field, until perhaps several refreshes have happened. So now we see the peripheral problems this causes when keywords are not apparent, then suddenly are apparent! (many of the photos where I first noticed keywords were ones that I color-fixed or cropped, which then triggered keywords to show up). I wouldn't have gotten so worried about this if I those keywords had shown up initially, because what stumped me the most was their sudden appearance.

The other issue represented isn't a bug, it's just that I had several different people uploading to the gallery & didn't think about it that some of them may have keywords added in their photo programs. But anyway, at least I know what to do with them now, & know there's no danger to my other galleries, etc. Thanks a bunch for looking into this; I simply couldn't figure it out, and yet I see now that I should've been able to. I just hope the invisible keywords thing will get fixed... well, uh... once the log-in thing is fixed!!

rainforest1155 wrote: »

Hi Anna Lisa,

Actually, the keywords are included in your original files already when you upload them. I checked out the file you link to and the original downloaded, shows the keyword SmugMug imported as a tag in Windows Explorer if you right-click on the file and select properties > details tab:

Perhaps it's something the Windows Photo editor or any other software you opened / edited the program with?

You can give it a try and upload a photo straight from your camera (that has not been opened or edited in any program) and you'll see that it won't show any keywords on SmugMug.

rainforest1155

Ah, I missed the part on where you said others uploaded these.

Keyword indexing can take 24 hours so for new uploads you likely won't see keywords right away. That said, if you click on add / edit below a photo, it should show you any keywords provided for the photo that'll show once indexing is done.
You can also view the keywords provided for all photos in a gallery via the Tools > many photos > caption / keyword tool. It'll also show you the keywords regardless if they have processed yet or not. Note that if you don't make changes in the caption/keyword tool, use the back button to get back to the gallery. If you were to click on save, it would reapply keywords and that may result in them needing more time to index.