Last night in attempting to coordinate/consolidate the keywords assigned to 40k+ photos by over 4 programs the past 2 years I made an error.
I had MANY photos with keywords Other/Statuary and I wanted to remove the Other part of the hierarchy and just have Statuary under Assigned Keywords.
What I did was create a new keyword for Statuary so I had both the Other/Statuary and just the Statuary under Assigned Keywords.
Then I clicked on Other/Statuary to display all in the Contents panel, Selected All, then applied the new Keyword Statuary and unchecked the Other/Statuary keyword.
What happened is the keyword counted down from 200+ to ZERO and all photos in the Content panel disappeared. Then when the keyword Statuary was unchecked under Assigned Keywords -- it disappeared.
Being late, tired and irritated I continued on thinking I had made an error and I would correct those keywords later.
BAD MISTAKE. I made thing much worse by doing the same thing to several keywords.
So, thinking I would be a "bright fellow" this morning, I deleted the Adobe Bridge Cache to let it rebuild it and copied back ALL my photos from a backup made yesterday when all was well in my world.
Now I have all the keywords listed and they show up in my Contents Panel per photo BUT there is no number to the right of the keyword denoting the number of photos it is applied to and I can't search by a particular keyword.
I had exported my keywords yesterday also and this morning I Cleared and Reimported those keywords.
All looks great and works great but no number of photos per keyword and can't search.
Oh God, please someone help me ????