[digiKam-users] Moving and reassigning tags - how?

[Remco Viëtor]

On jeudi 20 septembre 2018 14:51:27 CEST Chris Green wrote:
> I have a number of 'similar' tags that should be merged.
> 
> For example I have 'Animals/Horses' and 'Animals/Horse'.
> 
> How can I sort this out?
> 
> I tried editing the 'Horses' tag to change it to 'Horse' but Digikam
> just says that the new name already exists and won't do it.
> 
> I also tried dragging and dropping 'Horses' to 'Horse' but this just
> produced 'Horses/Horse'.
> 
> So, how can I make all my 'Horses' into 'Horse'?

Usually in such case:
- I select all the "Horses" (e.g. using the 'Tag' tab in the left column), 
- add the tag for "Horse" and then 
- remove the tag "Horses" 
and in that order, otherwise you end up with NO images filtered to add the 
"Horse" tag to.

Remco...