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</div><div><div dir="ltr">Currently I am unable to apply ANY tags to ANY images. I continue trying to merge tags as well as just add or remove tags from images. It appears to work, but moments later, any changes I make just disappear. Tags revert to the same status they were before I initiated any changes at all.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Nadine H</div>
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<div> </div><hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%" tabindex="-1"><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Digikam-users <digikam-users-bounces@kde.org> on behalf of Andrew Goodbody <ajg02@elfringham.co.uk><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 25, 2024 1:01 AM<br><b>To:</b> digikam-users@kde.org <digikam-users@kde.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Deleted people tags reappearing<div> </div></font></div>On 25/11/2024 01:45, Nadine Helkenn wrote:
<br>> I've been encountering an issue with people tags that I created log ago
<br>> (and have deleted or changed) showing up again after 'find new items'
<br>> scans. In some cases the tag hierarchy has been lost so they show up
<br>> immediately under the 'people' tag. And other times the hierarchy is
<br>> recreated under an old tag that has been changed.
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<br>I am going to make a guess that you write the metadata to the image
<br>files, yes?
<br>
<br>I think this is what happens.
<br>
<br>1. You create and apply some tags to images. This writes the metadata to
<br>the database and the image files.
<br>
<br>2. Some time later you edit the tags hierarchy by moving, renaming or
<br>deleting tags. This updates the database. It does not update the
<br>metadata in the image files.
<br>
<br>3. 'Find new items' scans the file tree and finds tags in the image
<br>files' metadata that is not present in the database and adds it back to
<br>the database.
<br>
<br>This is definitely behaviour that is less than ideal. You may even
<br>consider it to be a bug and if so you should log it at https://bugs.kde.org/
<br>
<br>To avoid this issue I do the following when I want to edit the tags
<br>hierarchy and keep the database and files in sync.
<br>
<br>1. Use the left sidebar to select all files that have the tag I want to
<br>edit.
<br>2. Apply a unique and temporary tag to all those files.
<br>3. Remove the tag to be edited from all selected files.
<br>4. Make the desired changes to that tag in the hierarchy.
<br>5. Select all files with the temporary tag applied in 2.
<br>6. Apply the edited tag to all selected files.
<br>7. Remove temporary tag from the files.
<br>
<br>Use at your own risk. Test the procedure first on a small number of
<br>files ie 1 or 2. Backup everything first. Back it up again somewhere else.
<br>
<br>Andrew
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