Created attachment 186321 [details] System information SUMMARY I started auto generation of keywords on some albums (almost standard settings). Several hundred keywords are generated within a folder 'auto / de' as expected. Because I was not satisfied with the result, I deleted the keywords. I deleted the whole 'auto' folder. The auto folder was removed, but several keywords from within the auto folder newly appears on the 1st level of keyword tree - not all, but I guess about 20% of the original auto generated and than deleted keywords appeared on the 1st level. Additionally this keywords could not be deleted. When I try to delete them, they first disappear and than appears again after a few seconds. It is not clear to me, but it seams that there is a background task that continuously auto generate this keywords. I could only stop this behavior by reinstalling digikam. STEPS TO REPRODUCE I did not try to reproduce this OBSERVED RESULT keywords within auto folder appeared outside this folder on the 1st level after deleting the auto folder EXPECTED RESULT - deleted keywords should not automatically be generated again - auto generated keywords should only be generated within auto 'folder' - If it is intended that auto generation of keywords is working in the background, I would expect the possibility to stop / pause this SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Manjaro Linux / KDE KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.6 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0 Qt Version: 6.9.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The automatic tag detection process can only be started manually. You can see if it's still active in the progress manager's status bar. You're probably writing the metadata to the images. When you delete the tags, the metadata is reread from the images. It's likely that not all tags can be deleted. This is probably due to metadata fields that don't have a complete tag path, causing them to appear in a different position in the tag tree. There can be various reasons for this; even one image whose tags can't be fully written is enough. We would need to identify these images and determine the cause. We would definitely need a terminal log to be able to help you further. https://www.digikam.org/contribute/#linux-host Maik
I tried to reproduce on a different setup. It was a complete local setup and this problem does not occur (and there was no terminal output). Yes I have configured that tags are written to files via exiftool. The working setup has files on a network drive so I guess that this problem only occurs there, because of different timings.
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🐛🧹 This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. Closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.