Bug 301488

Summary:	tool to remove empty image labels (tags)
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Danni Coy <danni.coy>
Component:	Tags-Keywords	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.6.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	7.6.0

Description Danni Coy 2012-06-09 02:59:38 UTC

after importing a whole bunch of files which are poorly tagged or after I have accidently mistyped a tag while adding it I end up with a lot of tags that simply aren't necessary and deleting them one by one is slow and painful. 

I would like a tool that could remove any tag that has no images attached to it.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Marcel Wiesweg 2012-06-09 13:08:03 UTC

Looks like a good task for command line metadata editors

Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2012-06-09 13:31:17 UTC

Agree, it's a low level maintenance feature... 

Look to ExifTool or Exiv2 command line tools to manage metadata in batch...

Gilles Caulier

Comment 3 Danni Coy 2012-06-09 14:51:32 UTC

These command line tools will work with the digikam database files?

Comment 4 Marcel Wiesweg 2012-06-10 16:51:34 UTC

I see you are referring to tags inside digikam's db in this case. Still seems to be a very special case. Something like this should be solved by scripting, unfortunately our scripting interface is underdeveloped.

Comment 5 Danni Coy 2012-06-11 01:40:26 UTC

an alternate solution to the problem might be a mechanism for merging tags.