<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="auto">I assume you write the metadata to the files themselves.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I guess the issue comes from a mismatch between the info in the database (what you see in Digikam) and the pictures' metadata.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If in digikam you already have the tags the way you like, but are not sure if that info is also in the files, I would just write that metadata to the files.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Otherwise, I would re-read the metadata from the files again, to make sure the database and the files have the same info, and then rearrange the tags however you want (making sure that info is being saved).</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 25, 2022 12:05, Tom Rice <tomkrice@gmail.com> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I have organized my tags using the tag manager with either move here or
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When I went to write this to the files the message was to first read
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from the files. That resulted is a scrambled set of tags. I am assuming
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it was because some of the tags are entered differently than the way I
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arranged them in the tag manager. It may be that some file even have
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duplicate people or place tags for the same person or place.
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So if I write the now reorganized tags to the files will I end up with
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even more confusion and will the misplaced tags still reside in the files?
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Can I remove all tags from files - how? and then write them to the files
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in the manner the appear in the tag manager? Will removing a tag from
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the file allow the database to then write a correctly organized tag scheme.
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How to do this? T
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Thanks for any suggestions.
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