Keywording

mercphoto

According to the keywording help screen:

"To save you time, smugmug also inspects your photo's filenames. IMG_9107 will be ignored. Auckland_9107 will be tagged with the keyword Auckland. You can always use the caption tool to change them."

I can understand this sort of behavior for the FILE NAME. However, if I enter a keyword into the keyword section of the ITPC of the JPG file why does the same rule apply? The help screen makes one believe it only applies to the file name but I'm finding out the hard way this is incorrect.

Please either clarify the help screen, or change the keywording behavior to accept the photographer's keywords as he intended.

mercphoto

Now it gets worse. I use the bulk keyword editor to replace Group_1 with "group_1", but in searches it is showing up as "group1", the underbar removed.

What exactly is going on here? Why is it mucking around with what is inside the quotation marks?

Andy

Bill, I'm checking on it, to get a definite answer from Onethumb. Standby please.

Andy

OK, direct from the source:

All non-alphanumeric characters are ignored. A-Z, a-z, 0-9 is all that is allowed.