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<pre cols="72"><font size="2" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Frédéric</font></pre>
</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The problem lies with the tag settings that you have selected in digikam.digikam will read tags from all of these places in your photo's metadata and write tags to them in the appropriate forms.<br></div><div dir="auto">digikam as you know has hierarchical tags. Some of the other items in the list are not hierarchical, so if you assign France/Charente Maritime/La Rochelle as a tag, digikam (like other software) will write your single tag as 3 top separate tags.</div><div dir="auto">France</div><div dir="auto">Charente Maritime </div><div dir="auto">La Rochelle</div><div> <br></div><div>Another complication is that some of the programs use different characters to show a hierarchy. I have seen | \ , and . used by programs over the years. digikam cannot parse these correctly, so it will create tags for each of them. <br></div><div><br></div><div dir="auto">To prevent this from happening, do the following:-</div><div dir="auto">1) Untick all of the settings that you are not currently using. I suggest that you only tick digikam and any other program that you actually use.</div><div>2) Use exiftool to delete the unwanted tags from your images. It may be possible to use digikam to remove unwanted tags, I don't know.</div><div> For example:- I think that the following command will remove Microsoft Photo tags:-<br></div><div> exiftool -xmp-microsoft:all= -m C:\Photos\ -r -overwrite_original</div><div> N.B. Change C:\Photos\ to the location of your photos. Try this on a few photos and check the results before running it on all of your photos.<br></div><div dir="auto"> <br></div><div><b>Hints</b></div><div>It is easy to find all of the places where duplicate tags are held in digikam. Type part, or all, of the tag in the right-hand search box.</div><div>e.g.</div><div><img src="cid:ii_m4mux4mx2" alt="TagSearch.png" width="329" height="555"><br></div><div>Don't duplicate tags unless it's absolutely necessary. In my example I notice that I have duplicated an entry - Magpie and Magpie Moth are the same in the Moth branch.</div><div>In your case you could have a tag for Gardens and leave the word off the tag. In my case I have a tag for Castle under Buildings and for Dover Castle I allocate Places/Dover and Buildings/Castle to my photos, instead of having a single tag "
Dover Castle". To find all photos of Dover Castle Select
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Castles, or Dover, then apply a Tag Filter of the other tag.</div><div>I hope that this helps,</div><div>Steve<br></div>
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