Ability to delete tags of photos in trash

g g

• November 28, 2023 00:00
• Edited

What problem do you see this solving?
You have 100 photos, you tag them with keywords : because this is trees, you tag with "trees"

You make the editing, some of them are crap, you trash them

Instead of "trees" you want to tag them with "tree". You tag the no-crap photos with "tree"

You would like to delete the tag "trees" but you can't (and of course C1 doesn't say WHY you can't, it just says "you can't", even the support doesn't know why you can't but I KNOW : this is because photos are in trash)

When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?
Today

Are you using any workarounds or other solutions to achieve your goals in Capture One?

Obviously, opening a bug to C1 support doesn't help : they say "not beeing able to delete a tag when tagged photos are in trash is a features, not having a message of why you can't is also a feature, so open an improvment"

Workarounds are:

- delete the tagged photos in trash then delete the tag, or

- put the tagged photo in a dumb collection then delete the tag then put the photos in trash

Burning down the computer to ashes doesn't help, cursing C1 devs neither.

Hoping that losing time filling an improvment request for a such obvious FEATURE will help

Are you happy to be contacted further about this suggestion or request?
yes

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  Marcin Mrzygłocki

  • November 28, 2023 14:43

  

  I would have imagined that attempting to delete a tag in use would have resulted in a prompt like "this tag is in use, deleting it would remove its instances from the photos that have it" and that's it.

  I don't use tags, don't have a running session, but this thread sounds viable.

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  Walter Rowe

  Moderator

  • November 28, 2023 17:15
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  By tag do you mean keyword? Are you trying to delete the keyword from the keyword library, or just from the images in the Trash? Images in the Trash are effectively locked.

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  g g

  • November 28, 2023 17:18

  Yes, I mean keyword.

  I try to delete from keyword librairy : if one image in trash has that keyword, deleting the keyword is impossible

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  Ian Wilson

  Moderator

  • November 28, 2023 17:27

  

  I see the point of this suggestion. I also see the fact that images in trash are automatically marked as uneditable, for possibly sensible reasons. I would like to be able to add or remove keywords from uneditable images separately from the fact that they can't be edited another ways. For instance Capture One is willing to add very small images to the catalog, but it won't let you edit them, so you can't add keywords to them to help you organise them. (So what use is it having them in the catalog,  -if you can't readily find them when you want to?)

  Ian

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