[Digikam-users] How to remove "left behind" tag tree

[Marie-Noëlle Augendre]

The more I have tried to organize my tags since I began to use Digikam a
couple of years ago, the more I've added to the mess!
Most tags seem to appear several times in different places all over the
arborescence.

I'm willing to reset my whole tagging system and start afresh to tag my
25000 and more pictures, but I need to clean up everything beforehand.
Any idea/recommandation how to do that? it'll have to erase all the tags
(and only them) from all the metadata wherever they are registered.

Thanks for helping,
Marie-Noëlle

2012/10/27 Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de>

>
> >
> > I've had similiar experiences when trying to use the same tag structure
> > in different programs. I had thought that if the tags are stored in the
> > xmp sidecar files it would be easy to have tag trees synchronized over
> > different porgramms, computers or even OS.  So I intuitively also
> > believed that data stored in sidecar files are synchronized to data
> > stored in tha database and vice versa. Be it automatically or on demand.
> > However this does not work (for me at least, might be I'm doing
> > something wrong). Not even with between two installations of digikam.
> >
> > DK is one of the mightiest image management tool. And I really like it a
> > lot. But this issue is really a blocker for me.
> >
> > It would be great to know if this is a problem of philosophy or of
> > technology. IE is the behaviour intended to be like this (and will not
> > change) or are there technical limitations, problems, etc keeping DK
> > from synchronizing metadata between sidecar files and database?
>
> In 309058 we are trying to find out if there is a testcase where reading or
> writing to sidecars behaves differently to reading or writing to the image
> file's XMP. It should not; the only difference is that in an image file
> there
> is additionally IPTC keywords which may somehow interfere.
>
> The problem that a reorganization of the tag tree is not transported to the
> files having assigned these tags is discussed in extenso.
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