Tags - How to remove unwanted ones. Solution wanted.

[Andrey Goreev]

Hello Peter,

I am having the same issue.
Do you have any other picture management software installed on your
computer?
I always thought that Windows Live Photo Gallery screws my tags up
resurrecting the deleted ones from its database.

If that is not a case for you I suspect that previous versions of digiKam
might wrote tags to more fields than digiKam 5. The list of the fields
where digiKam writes tags to can be found in Settings / Metadata / Advanced
/ Tags.
Again, this is just a thought ...

When I come across such file again in future I will investigate more - need
to check properties of the files, permissions, scan all metadata using
exiftool, etc.

Also, there is an option called "Wipe all tags from database only" in Tags
/ Tag Manager / Sync Export which might help. I have never used it though.
Please do full backup of your collection if you do.

Best regards,
Andrey Goreev

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Peter Mc Donough <mcd-mail-lists at gmx.net>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There seems to be no real solution on how to remove unwanted tags in DK.
> System opensuse tumbleweed, digikam 5.3.0
>
> I have tagged the pictures on my computer with digikam for ages, and of
> course occasionally reorganized the tag tree.
> Sometimes tags pop up which seem impossible to remove.
>
> As I understand the standard procedure for consolidating the tag tree is:
> Make sure the xmps and photos are writeable.
> First - use maintenance mode to update from database to (xmp and photos)
> Second - use maintenance mode to update from (xmp and photos) to database)
> Now the same tags should be "everywhere".
>
> Test with one tag:
> Unmark lazy synchronization
> Select in extended search the tag you want to remove
> Select all photos which match that tag
> Unmark the tag and apply
> Repeat if necessary until no photos show that tag any more.
> Expected result- all photos lose that tag.
>
> Test: Use maintenance mode to update from (xmp and photos) to database)
> And f*§%k, the tag is still in those photos.
> What went wrong?
>
> cu
> Peter
>
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