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I'll look into that. Thanks for the suggestion.

Yes, it looks like that file is pretty useless when you change systems.
Thanks Pierre for all your help.

Yes. That is what I mean.

Sorry, I might be missing something here.
The term Europe shows up in the Category set, but the acdsee keywords don't translate to Categories.
In the example above the acdsee keywords are listed separately and they don't show in the Categories listing
Europe|Norway fjords

In some cases I have ...

No.

Thanks for following up on this Pierre.
When you look at XMP data under acdsee there are listings for categories and keywords. The categories seem to have carried across but not the keywords. See attached screen dump of XMP for that file.
Can you shed any light on this? thanks again for trying to ...

Not sure if the last jpg I posted had XMP. Sorry for the mistake (not used to posting in forums)
this one has acdsee keywords in the XMP thanks

Hope this is what you need

Not sure if it came through on last message.

thanks

In XMP there is an acdsee field. Terms that appear in categories show in XNViiew categories. acdsee keywords do not show in categories.
I have tried Import Settings > Catalog > Import folder, and also View > Update folder - neither seems to change what is shown in Categories.
Here is a screen shot ...

I have that checked in Settings.
I'm guessing that the ACDSee keywords aren't transferable to other programs so might need to redo all of these.

I have just changed from ACDSee to XNView MP. Is there a way to import the ACDSee keywords to XNView. They appear in XMP as Keywords but don't show in Categories.
Is there a way for them to show up in Categories?
thanks