[digiKam-users] digikam git version , strange 'Tags' tag

[leoutation at gmx.fr]

On 2/7/19 8:46 PM, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> If I delete a tag here or a tag tree, also from the image / sidecar all
> entries are deleted. I can not reproduce a mistake. Is the image collection
> local or on a network drive?
Image collection is local on hd PC.
To reproduce, you may try to rename, for example,  a folder "a" 
containing subtags to new name "abcd",  then rename "abcd" to  original 
name "a". That's what i did some months ago, i think.
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> Maik
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2019, 19:16:02 CET schrieb leoutation at gmx.fr:
>> On 2/7/19 5:22 PM, leoutation at gmx.fr wrote:
>>> On 2/6/19 9:21 PM, Maik Qualmann wrote:
>>>> Can you send me a image (by email), that again and again created this
>>>> "badfolder"?
>>>
>>> Now:
>>> 1) "cleanup database" works normally, no "badfolder" created
>>> 2) when updating database from images metadata (.xmp files),
>>> "badfolder"/"F***" is created. In attached screenshot, this bad folder
>>> is the red one . Other good folders are green.
>>> 3) after searching in .xmp affected images files, i discover they
>>> contain "F***" word/bad tag. => I understand that after deleting this
>>> badfolder/"F***"/tags, they are not really deleted in .xmp files.
>>
>> Now, I deleted this badfolder/"F***" containing subtags then I opened in
>> editor .xmp attached to concerned image files: these .xmp are not
>> updated all, they still contain "F***"/tags i just deleted

After searching, i see "badfolder/"F***" is a replication of original 
good folder "T****".  The bad folder contains same (good) tags.
To resume, it seems problem comes from the old name/word folder"F***", I 
can't delete it from .xmp files, about 8500 files...
I don't know if it's safely possible to edit metadata in mariadb 
database  with a tool. Then, with Digikam, i could update from database 
to .xmp images metadata.
Not very easy to understand, it's like Kafka...

>>
>>> Other thing, bad folder "F***" duplicates some tags of good folder
>>> "T**** (8729)".
>>> I think, but I'm not sure, in the past, I renamed tag folder "T***" in
>>> "F***", then I renamed folder "F***" in "T***"
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