[digiKam-users] "Orphaned" Digikam Tags

[Maik Qualmann]

Ignoring the problem would not be so good. Do you use SQLite or MySQL and 
which digiKam version exactly?

1. Backup the database
2. Use at least digiKam-6.0.0, if not available, use the AppImage.
3. If using SqLite as a database, just use the database migration tool to copy 
the existing database into a new one. This fixes bugs, but should not remove 
any tags that still exist.
4. Copy the new database over the old one.

Maik

Am Donnerstag, 14. März 2019, 13:05:50 CET schrieb Aliks:
> I have used Digikam for years to manage my bird photo library, with tags for
> the bird name and bird species/family.  Example: A photo of a Hooded
> Vulture is tagged:
> 
> Wildlife|Birds|Accitripidae Vultures|Hooded Vulture
> 
> Over the years bird species get merged or split so I have I have reorganised
> the tag hierarchy many times.  Its now a largish photo library, and losing
> tags would be painful so I have been tracking down all the errors and
> glitches and fixing them one by one.
> 
> What's left is a set of 20 error messages which show at startup time, which
> appear to refer to "orphaned" tags, for example:
> 
> Digikam::AlbumManager::scanTAlbums: Failed to find parent tag for tag
> "African Wattled Lapwing"  with pid  210
> 
> There is currrently no tag "African Wattled Lapwing" showing in the Tag
> Manager, if I create this tag and restart digikam, the error message
> remains. If I delete the newly created tag, still the same error message.
> 
> Should I be worried about a corrupt tag database, or just ignore these
> messages?
> 
> 
> 
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