<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Maik,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for the helpful reply. </div><div><br></div><div>Have installed DK 8.6 (pre-release) and deleted the remaining imported tags with no problem. </div><div><br></div><div>Have also enabled writing metadata with ExifTool and my HEIF images’ metadata has now been updated successfully. </div><div><br></div><div>Is there a link to a changelog for the pre-release version? I did look previously but couldn't find it. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again, much appreciated. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Gary</div><div><br></div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(160, 160, 160);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin@gmail.com></span><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Re: Tag Deletion - Random Crashes or Beachball Freezes (DK 8.5 Mac)</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">16 January 2025 at 6:29:28 am AEST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">digikam-users@kde.org<br></span></div><br><br>digiKam can write tags in HEIF images if you enable writing with ExifTool in <br>the metadata settings.<br><br>The crashes when deleting tags have been fixed in digiKam-8.6.0, a pre-release <br>version is available for download:<br><br>https://files.kde.org/digikam/<br><br>Maik<br><br>Am Dienstag, 14. Januar 2025, 08:04:51 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb <br>gz01@iinet, gazola01@iinet.net.au:<br><blockquote type="cite">Running Digikam 8.5.0 (debug version) on mac mini M2 pro, macOS 15.2, 16GB<br>RAM, database on internal SSD, some collections on an external HDD.<br><br>Digikam is a wonderful, powerful program and I’m very grateful to Giles and<br>everyone who works so hard to keep improving it while accommodating big<br>tech’s OS/hardware changes.<br><br>Feeling more confident with DK 8.5 on a mac after my issues with DK 8.0 -<br>8.4 on macs (used it on ubuntu & windows during that period), I decided to<br>again focus on tagging… As DK doesn’t seem to write tags/metadata to HEIF,<br>and sidecar files do not fit my workflow, I batch-converted 3,600 HEIC<br>images to JPG and corrected their created/modified dates (and changed my<br>iPhone's photo setting to JPG for future pics). [used mac’s Finder<br>‘Convert' & windows app ‘File Date Corrector’].<br><br>Next step: clean up the tag database by deleting ~3,500 tags from imported<br>JPG's in batches using the Tag Manager… many hours of seemingly random<br>crashes or freezes later, only 200 tags to go, but I’ve run out of<br>enthusiasm.<br><br>FWIW, the crashes/freezes happen with various numbers of selected tags or<br>even with just one individual tag selected. For example, this same<br>individual tag might then either delete successfully after DK is<br>re-launched, or DK will freeze on it again. Unpredictable.<br><br>According to<br>https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/investigating-memory-access<br>-crashes#Identify-the-type-of-memory-access-that-caused-the-issue, the<br>problem may be an 'invalid memory fetch’ relating to 'CrBrowserMain' (have<br>attached an Apple crash report plus a backtrace file for a beachball<br>freeze).<br><br>Assuming this problem can be solved somehow(?), I have some feedback on the<br>Tag Manager's deletion GUI: I don’t think it’s practical or necessary to<br>list ALL selected tags in the ‘Do you want to continue?’ dialog box. This<br>dialog box expands vertically and can exceed the screen height so that its<br>‘Cancel'/‘Yes' buttons are not visible. Using keyboard shortcuts would be a<br>workaround, not a fix. If there’s a hard limit on selection numbers or<br>overall text length, a message could be displayed if needed.<br><br>Two files attached.<br><br>Thanks again for your efforts<br><br>Regards,<br>Gary<br><br><br><br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Digikam-users mailing list<br>Digikam-users@kde.org<br>https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>