Re: [Shotwell] Tags loosing their parent tag

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 00:20 +0700, Jørn Villesen Christensen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have experienced this a couple of times over the last couple of
> years, 
> but only with minor incidents and nothing that could not be fixed 
> easily. But now, the problem has gotten bigger and it seems that I 
> cannot fix it persistently.
>
> The problem is that my tags loose their parent tags. E.g. I have 
> group-tags such as Places. Within that group I have countries such
> as 
> Argentina and Andes. So Places/Argentina and Places/Andes. But now,
> for 
> some images, Argentina and Andes are placed on the top level (next
> to 
> Places) while for other images the tags remain correct. I.e. I now
> have 
> Argentina, Andes, Places/Argentina, and Places/Andes.


> Previously I have been able to move tags around and that would fix
> it. 
> But now, more and more tags are having that problem, and moving this 
> around only seems to fix it until next restart of Shotwell.

> I have some xmp sidecar files (from Darktable) which also contained
> some 
> tags, and I have tried to remove all tags from the image files and
> the 
> xmp files (and let Shotwell handle tags via it's database only) -
> but 
> that did not help.
>
> Do you have any idea of what is causing this? Or how to debug this?

Does https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776387 match?
>