[Digikam-users] Re: Delete all default tags in digicam

[Tilman Schmieder]

Thanks a lot, this is exactely the info I was looking for. Thanks for 
the advice with the backup I'll give it a try...

Am 03.03.2011 19:23, schrieb Johnny:
> Tilman Schmieder<t.r.schmieder at googlemail.com>  writes:
>> I would like to build up new tags for my photos; still digikam comes along with
>> literally hundreds of tags that I am in need of a convenient way to delete the
>> defaults tags in one go.
> To delete all tags stored in the database, just connect directly to the
> database and delete the tags from there. I installed sqliteman to browse
> the database and you can also delet them from there, or use your
> favorite application.
>
> It seems the tables imagetags, tags and tagstree should be the
> candidates.
>
> If you have already written the tags to the photo metadata, it should
> work to delete them in the database directly and then rewrite to the
> photos.
>
> And please make a backup of database and images before playing around
> wiht this...