Face Tag Problem

Mick Sulley mick at sulley.info
Wed Jun 7 17:09:40 BST 2017


There were all taken the same day, and all tagged with 
Event>Birthdays>Lucy21st but no other labels, just face tags


On 07/06/17 17:01, Andrey Goreev wrote:
> Was there anything common between all the pictures? Same "pick label", 
> "color label", keyword, etc. ?
>
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>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Mick Sulley <mick at sulley.info>
> Date: 2017-06-07 9:55 AM (GMT-07:00)
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: Re: Face Tag Problem
>
> The problem is that I don't know when it happened, so have no idea how 
> to reproduce it.  I have seen it before, some time ago, and like you 
> assumed that it was my mistake some how, but this time it is so 
> clearly a copy of the tags on one picture to another 67.
>
> I have only ever used sqlite so migration problems are not relevant.  
> The only other graphic package I use is Darktable and I never do 
> anything with tags there, all tagging is done in DigiKam
>
> Is there an easy way to remove tags from a  bunch of pics?
>
> Any ideas, suggestions, theories?
>
>
> On 07/06/17 14:20, Andrey Goreev wrote:
>> I would backup the pictures, cleaned up all tags from them and would 
>> try to reproduce the issue having digikam open in terminal with debug 
>> option.
>>
>> I do have some tags written to pictures I haven't applied them too 
>> but I thought that was either my mistakes (wrong mouse clicks) or 
>> mysql to sqlite migration issues or issues related to another 
>> programs (I have used digikam, Picasa and WLPG in parallel for a year 
>> or so.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Mick Sulley <mick at sulley.info>
>> Date: 2017-06-04 9:24 AM (GMT-07:00)
>> To: DigiKam <digikam-users at kde.org>
>> Subject: Face Tag Problem
>>
>> I have just noticed that I have a picture which has 6 people tagged, all
>> correct with the face boxes in the correct position, but those 6 people
>> have also been tagged in the previous 67 picture, all have those same
>> tags with the same sized boxes in exactly the same positions, which is
>> not correct.  In addition the other pictures also have their correct
>> tags.  So it would appear that the tags from one picture have been
>> pasted to another 67.  Is this possible?  How can it happen?
>>
>> The pictures are all in the same directory and all from the same event,
>> so would have been tagged at the same time.  I have .xmp files for all
>> of them and also write to the picture file, don't know if that matters.
>> The pictures are from Sept 2019 and I have only just started to use
>> DK5.6, so this happened using DK 5.5 or earlier
>>
>> With the scale of this I can go through and correct manually, but would
>> like to understand how it happens to prevent it happening again.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mick
>>
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