[Digikam-users] Remove all tags from entire library

[Sjoerd]

On Thursday 20 August 2015 10:20:00 Darryl Penny wrote:
> Veaceslav Munteanu <veaceslav.munteanu90 at ...> writes:
> > Yes you can.
> > 
> > Go to Tag Sidebar and press Open Tags Manager.
> > 
> > Sync & Export -> Wipe all Tags from Database Only ( now all tags from
> > database are deleted)
> > 
> > Then press Write Tags From Database to Image ( it might take a lot of
> > time, but after it is done, all tags are deleted from pictures)
> 
> ThankQ for the steps.
> 
> Program is busy clearing image metadata now, going to have something to
> drink,etc.
> As you said, it's going to take awhile. Don't care to be honest, I must
> sort out my (picture) life :-)
> 
Good luck with that! 
I am tempting to do the same, but it also would mean to resync all the 
pictures to my backup(s) and since it's around 300GB now....the local backups 
are not a problem, but remote with just a 3Mbps uplink will take some time...

Cheers,
Sjoerd