Digikam-users Digest, Vol 235, Issue 17

[Steve Franks]

Frédéric


The problem lies with the tag settings that you have selected in
digikam.digikam will read tags from all of these places in your photo's
metadata and write tags to them in the appropriate forms.
digikam as you know has hierarchical tags. Some of the other items in the
list are not hierarchical, so if you assign France/Charente Maritime/La
Rochelle as a tag, digikam (like other software) will write your single tag
as 3 top separate tags.
France
Charente Maritime
La Rochelle

Another complication is that some of the programs use different characters
to show a hierarchy. I have seen | \ , and . used by programs over the
years. digikam cannot parse these correctly, so it will create tags for
each of them.

To prevent this from happening, do the following:-
1) Untick all of the settings that you are not currently using. I suggest
that you only tick digikam and any other program that you actually use.
2) Use exiftool to delete the unwanted tags from your images. It may be
possible to use digikam to remove unwanted tags, I don't know.
    For example:- I think that the following command will remove Microsoft
Photo tags:-
   exiftool -xmp-microsoft:all= -m C:\Photos\ -r -overwrite_original
    N.B. Change C:\Photos\ to the location of your photos. Try this on a
few photos and check the results before running it on all of your photos.

*Hints*
It is easy to find all of the places where duplicate tags are held in
digikam. Type part, or all, of the tag in the right-hand search box.
e.g.
[image: TagSearch.png]
Don't duplicate tags unless it's absolutely necessary. In my example I
notice that I have duplicated an entry - Magpie and Magpie Moth are the
same in the Moth branch.
In your case you could have a tag for Gardens and leave the word off the
tag. In my case I have a tag for Castle under Buildings and for Dover
Castle I allocate Places/Dover and Buildings/Castle to my photos, instead
of having a single tag " Dover Castle". To find all photos of Dover Castle
Select either Castles, or Dover, then apply a Tag Filter of the other tag.
I hope that this helps,
Steve
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