On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Tonatiuh Medina <[email protected]> wrote: > > > *Now the problem: *The import process created a tag - with the name of > the > > picture - for every single picture. So I ended up with thousands of > useless > > tags. I manage to manually delete a few... but* how can I delete multiple > > tags at the same time?* Why were these tags created automatically?* > > Just Guessing: the tags are already there from the software you used before > ...iPhoto... maybe that tool uses tags for each file, even you don't > notics this, when using just that program. > > And when you import the files, shotwell then adds these tags.
I think so too. Any idea what Shotwell reads as "tag" in the metadata? i.e.: what exif tag?(if any). In that case, I think I could try to clear them before importing.* Shotwell imports tags from any of these metadata fields: - Iptc.Application2.Keywords - Xmp.dc.subject - Xmp.digiKam.TagsList - Xmp.lr.hierarchicalSubject - Xmp.MicrosoftPhoto.LastKeywordXMP See http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/shotwell/wiki/PhotoTags . (Unfortunately the table formatting on that page was destroyed when we migrated from Trac to Redmine last year, so the page needs cleaning up.) * Turns out I spoke too soon about importing successfully... when trying to import more than ~400 of this pics my system chokes, import rate goes dead slow (like 1pic/min). I think it's because it tries to import/create the tags as well. So,if you know some SQL and also the structure of the shotwell database, > then you an delete the tags easily. Thanks... you know where the sqlite DB is located in a standard install? $HOME/.shotwell/data/photo.db adam _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
