Uwe Posted February 17, 2017 Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 Hello, if you rename a tag the file is updated with the new name of the tag. This doesn't work if the new tag is a result of a merge. E.g. People Tag: Miller ->Jenny Young ->Paul Jenny married Paul. The tag "Miller" will be changed to "Young" by rename and merged to the existing tag "Young". In this case the catalog is updated and after a refresh you see Young ->Jenny in the Properties Panel of this item BUT in the file there is still Miller ->Jenny until you call the action "Write Tags to file" Regards, Uwe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daria Kotilainen Posted February 17, 2017 Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 Hello Uwe, thank you, I've registered the bug #4526 Best regards, Daria Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Barrett Posted February 17, 2017 Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 On a related note. if you delete a tag, the files don't get updated to delete the value I converted the tags for People, Place and Event to keyword tags because that's all my photo display app supports. I deleted the tags, but I keep coming across files that still contain the old tags in the metadata. That's a problem if incorrect tags have been corrected in the keywords structure because they will be out of sync. I'm going to have to do an ExifTool session to clear them out. One day. When I have time. :) - Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daria Kotilainen Posted February 28, 2017 Report Share Posted February 28, 2017 Hello Uwe, fixed in 1606 Hi Paul, I'm afraid, I cannot reproduce what you are talking about. Or I just got it wrong :( In the tags panel I delete a hierarchical tag and get the message "Some of the sub-tag may already be assigned to files. These values will be removed from all files". I confirm and the values are deleted from files' metadata. Regards, Daria Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Barrett Posted February 28, 2017 Report Share Posted February 28, 2017 It's the People group amongst others and I can't delete it. But I can delete entries beneath it and you're right the metadata does get removed. It is several months since I saw the issue and I parked it for later attention. When I see the specifics of it occurring again I'll report it. - Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daria Kotilainen Posted March 27, 2017 Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 Hi Uwe, Did you have a chance to re-check this issue? If yes, could you please edit your article and send me it by Skype so we could publish it? Regards, Daria Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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