[digiKam-users] Deleted tags reappear

[Milind Joshi]

Though I had this problem with png files and not dng files this solution 
worked! Thanks.

Looks like digiKam treats png and dng files in the same way. Experts can 
comment on this.

mj

>
> I had exactly the same problem. The problem is that with DNG files,
> the tags are written in the DNG file. DNG files do not use the XMPs,
> some software do, some don't.
>
> I ended up remove the tags from the DNG with exiftool.
>
> to see the tags in the dng:
>
> exiftool -G1 -a -s -IPTC:Keywords -XMP-dc:Subject -XMP-lr:HierarchicalSubject FILENAME.DNG
>
> to delete the tag in the dng:
>
> exiftool -IPTC:keywords="" -XMP-dc:Subject="" -XMP-lr:HierarchicalSubject="" FILENAME.DNG
>
> then
>
> 1. re-read the file in DK
> 2. cleanup your tags/categories
>
>