SUMMARY Today I upgraded DigiKam from version 7.3 to 8.4, and when the programam opened, I found that it had created thousands of tags on its own, although I had disabled the feature. So now I find myself wasting my mornings deleting unnecessary tags. This problem could be due to the fact that digiKam was not opening quickly, notwithstanding the fact that at the end of the instalation procedure I checked to open it, so I launched it manually, with the result that the two instances opened together, at the same time. For that matter, the new tags are not even distinct from the others, so I have to scroll through them all, and I can't separate them in bulk. It would be more useful if they were two separate groups: hand-assigned tags versus automatically assigned tags. I would also like to point out that the tags are always assigned in English, regardless of the language setting. If they were in the system language they would be more useful! STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. upgrade digitam 2. check to launch program at end instalaltion 3. run manually the program (?) 4. unceck autotag and start OBSERVED RESULT Thousands of tags were created EXPECTED RESULT Quick program opening and no tags created SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: 10 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Hi, No. AutoTags feature must be started manually from the maintenance tool. The tags created in the database are certainly imported from the file metadata whil scanning at startup. These tags have been probably creted by a 3rdparty application. Best Gilles Caulier
(In reply to caulier.gilles from comment #1) > Hi, > > No. AutoTags feature must be started manually from the maintenance tool. It should be so, yet I found them > > The tags created in the database are certainly imported from the file > metadata whil scanning at startup. These tags have been probably creted by a > 3rdparty application. > > Best > > Gilles Caulier Before the update, they were not there. what third-party applications should have done this?
The behavior is caused by a different sidecar setting (now correct with digiKam-8.4.0) You have created sidecars in 2 formats in the past, depending on the sidecar setting for compatible sidecar names. Now your previous sidecars have probably been scanned. Set the sidecar setting according to the third-party programs you are using (BASINAME.xmp or BASINAME.EXT.xmp). You will have to clean up the tags manually now. Maik
Well, so to speak, after wasting an entire afternoon, I hope at least the problem will be fixed in the next version!
Following comment 3 from Maik, the XMP sidecar dysfunction is fixed in last digiKam version.