[Digikam-users] Tags and everything related to them

[Wolfgang Mader]

On Friday 25 July 2014 14:45:20 Veaceslav Munteanu wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Wolfgang Mader
> 
> <Wolfgang_Mader at brain-frog.de> wrote:
> > On Friday 25 July 2014 14:32:47 Veaceslav Munteanu wrote:
> >> Hello everybody.
> >> 
> >> I want to thank everybody who sent me pack of images to test. I really
> >> called them nuke pack, because they really had everything in them:
> >> legacy tags, duplicates and obsolete tags :D
> >> 
> >> Thanks to them I was able to reproduce a lot of issues and fix them all.
> >> 
> >> What I did:
> >> 
> >> 1. Fixed more than 3 different scenarios in which digiKam could not write
> >> tags 2. Fixed IPTC being out of sync with XMP
> >> 3. Fixed _Digikam_root_tag_ which appears in images tagged with old
> >> version of digiKam
> >> 4. Added extra deduplication when writing tags + logic to remove all
> >> occurrences of _Digikam_root_tag_
> >> 5. Tested all packs received from users: All images contain fresh
> >> clean tags after read then write
> >> 6. XMP sidecar files also tested: read then write will remove any
> >> inconsistency 7. Fixed Tags Manager write option, which was broken
> >> 8. Tested all 3 options to read and write metadata: from maintenance,
> >> from menu and from tags manager
> >> 9. Tested face tags and read/write on them
> >> 10. If you have large collections, use Tags Manager write option, it
> >> will only write tags and process will be much faster
> > 
> > Hello Veaceslav,
> > 
> > thank you for your work on this. This is great news! In order to remove
> > all
> > tags from already taged images, do you recommend to use Tags Manager (your
> > point 10)?
> 
> Tags Manager use a specialized option from maintenance, which sync
> only tags (without caption, rating, etc)
> 
> > Do you still need more images. I can prepare a set next week (I am right
> > now away from my images).
> 
> yes, you can always send me packs of image which create problems on
> your machine.

Ok.

> 
> WARNING: Please call read tags before calling write tags. digiKam now
> simply delete everything before setting tags from database.

Since taging is for some workflows important and time consuming to set up, do 
we need a little research on how to make Tags in Digikam more robust? I would 
hate to lose all my tags, just because I clicked two actions in the wrong 
order.

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