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Hi, maybe somebody has a solution for this.<br>
<br>
My DK 4.0.0 used to work fine on this but recently I am having a
problem.<br>
I am trying to clean some files metadata, and still getting some old
tags not deleted. In general, I just unselect the tags on the right
pane and apply, getting them out of the files. Tested it on DK 4.0.0
and it worked but I wanted to try a faster way, more like in batch.<br>
<br>
So, I tried for the first time with the new "tag manager", the tool
where it offers to remove the indicated tag from the files<br>
containing it. It was faster than using combinations of filters and
left pane etc. And the progress bar below showed that something ws
indeed happening. However, I checked and the obsolete tags were
still on the metadata, and they were still there, in contrast with
the previous method that did the work but slowly. And more
worrisome, DK started behaving weird:<br>
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<b>The main issue</b>: since then, my "re-read metadata from files"
is completely dead. It shows a progress bar as<br>
always etc but no tags are added to the database's tag tree. I mean,
obsolete tags from the metadata, not present on the tag tree, to be
added into the database. They just do not show up anymore on the
tree despite how many times "re-reading the metadata". <br>
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<b>Efforts to solve it</b>:<br>
- I have tried rereading the metadata from files, from album, and
from the entire collection, as well as using the mantainance tool.
The obsolte tags are not added to the database and therefore I
cannot use the old method to get rid of them.<br>
- "reread from metadata" just stopped doing its job... The files are
fine, since I tested some of them in a small netbook with DK 3.5.0
and it works well retrieving the tags from the files metadata.<br>
- I tried duplicating a folder (album) externally and opening DK to
see if by scanning that new folder, it adds the tags from the
metadata as before or not. Files were added but their metadata not.<br>
- I tried re-installing DK4.0.0, but no change. <br>
- Tried with deleting the config Digikamrc and digikam's settings
folder, but nothing changed except the need to personalize KD again.
I ran out of ideas to try to re-enable the "reread metadata from
images" tool.<br>
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I have libexiv2-11 and libexiv2-12. Version 0.24 is on libexiv2-13,
I was able to install it, but I cannot remove libexiv2-12 (v0.23)
since many dependencies would crash on my OpenSuSE 13.1 (x64). I do
not know if DK uses libexiv2-13 even if libexiv2-12 is installed
too.<br>
<br>
Anybody has an idea to check before going to a full re-installation
of my box?<br>
Thanks<br>
gps<br>
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