[Digikam-users] re arranging tags into a new hierarchy - what happens?

Arnd Baecker arnd.baecker at web.de
Fri Jan 25 06:09:24 GMT 2008


Hi Elle,

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, elle stone wrote:

> In digikam (0.9.3), what happens to already-tagged images when the tag
> hierarchy is rearranged?  In the image-management software that I used under
> windows, if you rearranged the hierarchy, perhaps grouping 5 existing tags
> under one new "super" tag, the database automatically rearranged the
> tag-assignment for all images already tagged with any of the five tags.  So,
> "tag1" on image.jpg (before the change in hierarchy) became Supertag.tag1 on
> image.jpg (after the change in hierarchy).
>
> I played around today with rearranging the hierarchy in (a copy of) my
> digikam database, and nothing good happened - the tags disassociated from
> the images.  I have 181 images and five tags in my test database.  Every
> image is tagged with one (and only one - these particular tags are mutually
> exclusive tags) of the five tags.  These five tags logically fall into one
> group and I'd like to put them in one group before moving on to adding the
> next group of tags (and as I develop my tagging scheme, I suspect that these
> two "intake" groups will find themselves grouped together, so the hierarchy
> will be 3-deep for the "intake" tags). So what is the best way, if there is
> a way, to get the new hierarchy to show up in the image tags?



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