[digiKam-users] How do I quickly remove all unused tags from my database?

[Maik Qualmann]

Problem and cause is described here:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438253[1]

Maik

Am Dienstag, 2. August 2022, 16:37:04 CEST schrieb Glen:
> I removed over 200,000 images from my database. I'm now left with
> thousands and thousands of unused tags. Deleting all the unused tags is
> proving to be excruciatingly slow and painful. Even using Tag Manager to
> merely highlight all the unused tags is unacceptably slow.
> 
> Is there any way to speed up the deletion of unused tags from my database?
> 
> I'm using digiKam with MariaDB, on a Windows 10 system. My database
> resides on the computer's primary hard drive, which is an SSD. Despite
> the database being located on an SSD, tag deletion is still painfully
> slow, I expect this process will take me multiple days to complete. In
> the meantime, I can't use digiKam for any other purposes while Tag
> Manager is busy deleting all those tags, and I really need to keep using
> digiKam for other purposes on a daily basis.
> 
> Does anyone know how to speed up unused tag deletion?
> 
> Should I be using some sort of other software tool, perhaps a
> database-specific tool, instead of the digiKam Tag Manager?



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[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438253
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