[Digikam-devel] [Bug 268688] Write metadata to all images does not remove obsolete tags

[Elle Stone]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268688

Elle Stone <l.elle.stone at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #25 from Elle Stone <l.elle.stone at gmail.com> ---
It is possible to rearrange tags on the tag tree and synchronize tags and the
database IF you let digiKam write to the images. The trick is to reread
metadata from the images to get all the mismatched tags into the digiKam
database, then select ALL tags (not just the unwanted tags) on the Filters pane
before rearranging and pruning the tag tree. Use a combination of albums and
tags on the left pane to actually select the files to work with.

Unfortunately the above process doesn't seem to work if you are only writing to
XMP sidecar files. digiKam doesn't seem to reread the XMP file and/or doesn't
seem to want to delete any tags already written in the XMP file. 

I can see how some people might want digiKam to leave existing tags alone in
the XMP file, if other applications are also using the same XMP file. But for
myself, digiKam is the only application that writes to the XMP file and the
current behavior makes using only XMP files impossible if I want the XMP files
and the digiKam database to be in synch, which I do.

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