I started going through the keywords one-by-one and checking the settings (I only had a handful of keywords related to workflow that I didn’t export) but I quickly realized that I would never get through this with over 600 keywords in this one catalog alone.

But I remembered that Lightroom’s database is not in an Adobe proprietary format but it is a Sqlite database. So I downloaded the command-line utility, made a copy of my database, and fixed it up.

If you just want the one-line command I used, here it is:

update AgLibraryKeyword set
includeOnExport=1,includeParents=1,includeSynonyms=1;

I then fixed the handful of workflow keywords that I didn’t want to include on export (and I am abandoning the workflow keywords for Collections and Smart Collections anyway).

If you want a bit more detailed account, here you go. I made a copy of the Lightroom 2 catalog file and then, from the command-line, ran sqlite3 lightroom.lrcat (I named the copy lightroom.lrcat).

Once inside the sqlite3 interface, I ran a series of commands to figure out what tables existed and what columns to change. I started with the .tables command. This listed two columns of tables and I saw one that looked like what I wanted: AgLibraryKeyword. Next, I looked at the schema of this table with .schema AgLibraryKeyword. There I saw what looked like the three checkboxes:

includeOnExport INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 1,
includeParents INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 1,
includeSynonyms INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 1

Just to be sure, I tried a couple of queries to see if I got back the keywords I had fixed and those that I hadn’t:

select name from AgLibraryKeyword where includeOnExport=1;

and

select name from AgLibraryKeyword where includeOnExport=0;

The results looked right to me. So I issued my update command:

update AgLibraryKeyword set
includeOnExport=1,includeParents=1,includeSynonyms=1;

then exited the sqlite3 tool with .quit and then checked this copy out in Lightroom. Everything looked good so I copied it back in place and have been using it since.