Excire Search Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What needs to be done after a Lightroom Classic update?
Most updates to Lightroom Classic have no effect on Excire Search. However, with every major version jump of Lightroom Classic (e.g. update from version 12 to version 13) and rarely with minor updates, Lightroom Classic creates a copy of the catalog ...
Where can I find Excire Search after installation?
The Excire Search functions can be found in the Library -> Plugin Extras menu after installation. (There are two different „Plugin-Extras“ submenus in Lightroom, this was not our idea!) The basic settings for Excire Search can be found under File - ...
How does the initialization of photos work in Excire Search?
In order to use the functionalities of Excire Search, your photos must first be initialized. The photos are analyzed by the AI. This is done locally on your computer. To start the initialization of photos, go to the Lightroom menu and select ...
How does the update to Excire Search 2024 work?
When updating your Lightroom Classic catalog from a previous version to Excire Search 2024, the steps described below are performed. It is recommended that you back up both the Lightroom Classic catalog and the Excire Search database before updating. ...
How to backup the Excire Search database?
A backup of the Excire Search database is automatically performed before and during each major initialization. Excire Search stores the data of the initialized photos in its own database, which is located next to the Lightroom catalog. The backup ...
Can Excire Search be moved or copied to another directory after installation?
During the installation, any location can be chosen on Windows for the installation. The default path is "C:\Program Files\Excire Search". On Mac OSX, only the default path ("/Applications/Excire Search") is possible. Excire Search consists of the ...
What must be considered when exporting photos with Excire keywords?
Once the keywords that Excire Search recognizes for photos have been written to the Lightroom catalog, there are several ways to export these keywords when exporting photos. Lightroom offers two options for saving keywords in the export options: With ...
Can the same database be used from multiple computers?
The Excire Search database is always located in the same directory as the Lightroom catalog. If the folder with the Lightroom catalog is copied to a network drive, for example, and opened from another computer, Excire Search will also open the ...
How can I make automatically assigned keywords visible in Lightroom?
Excire Search automatically creates keywords during the first initialization and stores them in its own Excire database for future searches. In order to be able to use the keywords in the normal Lightroom keyword search, the keywords must be ...