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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 Paul A. Norman <paul@paulanorman.info><br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 25, 2024 4:09 PM<br><b>To:</b> digikam-users@kde.org <digikam-users@kde.org>; Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Deleted people tags reappearing<div> </div></font></div>Hi Nadine,<br><br>>"Currently I am unable to apply ANY tags to ANY images"<br><br></div><div>Have you checked the 'read/write status' of the affected files in another programme – a file browser/explorer? *** i have checked permissions & file attributes. I was able to rename some of the images successfully, so they are not blocked. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>—Are you storing in the images directly or in xmp sidecars? *** i tried using sidecars & prefer not to.<br></div><div><br>>"It appears to<br>work, but moments later, any changes I make just disappear"<br><br></div><div>—Do you do anything else in Digikam in between times? *** a few things, but didn't make a difference.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>There is a switch in Digikam that rather than just saving changes automatically, requires you to take action to save all recent changes – have you activated that option at some point in the past? *** i think you are referring to 'lazy synchronization'. I tried that for awhile, but don't care to use it.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">*** Thank you, Paul. You allowed my brain to delve into this more deeply. -- NadineH</div><div><br>Paul <hr><a href="https://PaulANorman.info">https://PaulANorman.info</a><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 November 2024 10:33:49 am NZDT, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204); padding-left:1ex">
<pre class="k9mail">If for some reason the metadata cannot be written to certain images, the old <br>information will of course be read from the image again and the tag will <br>appear again.<br>It must be clarified why the metadata could not be written.<br><br>Maik<br><br>Am Montag, 25. November 2024, 21:38:23 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb <br>Nadine Helkenn:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left:1px solid #729fcf; padding-left:1ex">Currently I am unable to apply ANY tags to ANY images. I continue trying to<br>merge tags as well as just add or remove tags from images. It appears to<br>work, but moments later, any changes I make just disappear. Tags revert to<br>the same status they were before I initiated any changes at all.<br><br><br>Nadine H<br> <br>From: Digikam-users <digikam-users-bounces@kde.org> on behalf of Andrew<br>Goodbody <ajg02@elfringham.co.uk> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2024 1:01 AM<br>To: digikam-users@kde.org <digikam-users@kde.org><br>Subject: Re: Deleted people tags reappearing<br> <br><br>On 25/11/2024 01:45, Nadine Helkenn wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left:1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left:1ex">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.<br></blockquote><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 <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/">https://bugs.kde.org/</a><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<br></blockquote><br><br><br><br></pre></blockquote></div></div><div id="ms-outlook-mobile-signature" dir="ltr"><div></div></div></div></body></html>