Tags a mess after numberouse upgrades, help me sort them out pls!

[Jasper]

Good Day all,
 Been using Digikam a good long time now, I think the database file I have atm probably originated a few (2-3) years ago, and has in the last few iterations of Digikam resulted in my tags becoming a big mess.
  (This may be because the database got completely fragged, but digikam has cleverly reconstructed the tags etc, as they were all embedded.... )

At anyrate I had heirarchical tag structure, which still remains, but the ends middles etc. of the heirachys have also been copied to the root, i.e:

places/{place1,place2, ...,placen,placeBlah/{blaseBlah1...}}
has become
<heirachichal as above>, and:
place1
place2
placen
plaseBlah/{plaseBlah1..}
plaseBlah1
 etc ad nauseum,

Can digikam allow me to sort these tags out and force the new heireachy back into the image tags(exif)?
 I am not too worried if this involves some scripting that may take an hour or so... as long as the tag tree can be cleaned up!

I am planning on going to mysql db, should this be done before migrating or after?

Thank you.

Jasper

[Dr. Martin Senftleben]

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Hi,

Jasper schrieb:

> Good Day all,
> At anyrate I had heirarchical tag structure, which still remains, but the
> ends middles etc. of the heirachys have also been copied to the root, i.e:
>
> places/{place1,place2, ...,placen,placeBlah/{blaseBlah1...}}
> has become
> <heirachichal as above>, and:
> place1
> place2
> placen
> plaseBlah/{plaseBlah1..}
> plaseBlah1
>  etc ad nauseum,
>
> Can digikam allow me to sort these tags out and force the new heireachy back
> into the image tags(exif)?

The hierarchy has no effect on the tags embedded in the images. You can
just rearrange the tags in digikam, and everything is fine. I had the
same problem several times, and just did that. The tags' images were not
affected.

Martin
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[Jasper]

DrMartinus wrote

> At anyrate I had heirarchical tag structure, which still remains, but the
> ends middles etc. of the heirachys have also been copied to the root, i.e:
>
> places/{place1,place2, ...,placen,placeBlah/{blaseBlah1...}}
> has become
> <heirachichal as above>, and:
> place1
> place2
> placen
> plaseBlah/{plaseBlah1..}
> plaseBlah1
>  etc ad nauseum,
>
> Can digikam allow me to sort these tags out and force the new heireachy back
> into the image tags(exif)?

The hierarchy has no effect on the tags embedded in the images. You can
just rearrange the tags in digikam, and everything is fine. I had the
same problem several times, and just did that. The tags' images were not
affected.

Martin

  Thank you!

Now I can 'safely; try mysql, if I could get kippie-et.al to build (without needing all kde trunk...)

Jasper