[Digikam-users] Tags and everything related to them

[Wolfgang Mader]

On Friday 25 July 2014 15:07:00 Veaceslav Munteanu wrote:
> I can help you with some warning messages on bulk operations such as
> options from Tags Manager and Maintenance.
> 
> The write tags operation from Tags Manager is guarded by 2 warnings,
> one describing and suggesting read before write.
> 

Well, I guess this should be sufficient! :)

Thanks,
Wolfgang

> I can't do more than this.
> 
> Veaceslav
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Wolfgang Mader
> 
> <Wolfgang_Mader at brain-frog.de> wrote:
> > 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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