[Shotwell] any news on multi-tag select?

[Adam Dingle]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Colin Law wrote:
On 6 April 2012 19:26, Adam Dingle wrote: 
> Dougie, 
> 
> thanks for sending us your Shotwell database and a video demonstrating the 
> problem.  Here's what I think is going on.  When you were burned by bug 
> http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4925 in the Shotwell prerelease, Shotwell 
> flattened your hierarchical tags - and then wrote those flattened tags to 
> the photo files (you must have had metadata writing enabled).  Even if you 
> restore an old copy of your photo.db, the flattened tags are still in the 
> photo files.  So when Shotwell starts up, it reads those tags from the 
> files, adds them to its database and displays them in the sidebar.  This is 
> entirely expected behavior. 

That does not seem to fit the facts as a bit earlier Dougie said that 
he had moved .shotwell out of the way so that it would reimport the 
files (in place if I understood correctly) and that this is 
re-building the tags. That suggests that the photos have the 
hierarchical tags still in place.

True, though perhaps the photos have both the hierarchical and non-hierarchical tags. Â In any case, if Dougie is unsure about which tags are stored directly in the photo files, it's not hard to find out - just run 'exiv2 -pa' on any photo file and it will dump out all the EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadata. Â Dougie, if you'd like to do that and post the output here we'd be happy to comment.

adam