Make it easy to delete keywords rapidly
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Make it easy to delete keywords rapidly
When importing images, sometimes I encounter images with a lot of spam tags. I haven't found a way to just delete all tags.
So I went to the Edit IPTC dialog:
The problem here is that there's no shortcut to delete a tag. Pressing Delete doesn't work.
If I click the "x" button, the focus is gone from the list of keywords, so I have to click on the next keyword, then click on the X again.
Please implement keyword deletion when the user presses Delete, and please set the focus to the next keyword in the list after the user clicks the X button.
So I went to the Edit IPTC dialog:
The problem here is that there's no shortcut to delete a tag. Pressing Delete doesn't work.
If I click the "x" button, the focus is gone from the list of keywords, so I have to click on the next keyword, then click on the X again.
Please implement keyword deletion when the user presses Delete, and please set the focus to the next keyword in the list after the user clicks the X button.
Re: Easy: make it easy to delete keywords rapidly
+1Please implement keyword deletion when the user presses Delete, and please set the focus to the next keyword in the list after the user clicks the X button
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Re: Easy: make it easy to delete keywords rapidly
+1 (Delete must only delete when focus is on the list of assigned keywords.)
Re: Make it easy to delete keywords rapidly
If there enough images and enough keywords then I find it useful to use the command line exiftool program.dandv wrote:When importing images, sometimes I encounter images with a lot of spam tags. I haven't found a way to just delete all tags.
It is very powerful, although it comes at a price of somewhat arcane syntax that you need to get to grips with.
I have a few shell script files (you might need to use cmd/bat files in windows) that I keep and modify a bit each time I need to remember what to do.
For example, this command will simply wipe ALL keywords in all jpg images in a folder:
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exiftool -overwrite_original -IPTC:keywords= -XMP-dc:Subject= -XMP-lr:HierarchicalSubject= -EXIF:XPkeywords= -XMP-microsoft:LastKeywordXMP= *.jpg
These are not a problem with xnview, which ignores them, but they can still be included by, for example, windows 7 file explorer Tags list. They can also reappear if you ever use other bits of software to modify keywords, but that way madness lies.
Exiftool has an option to create a desktop icon that you can drop files onto and have it process the files, but I have never tried it that way.
Re: Make it easy to delete keywords rapidly
You can select all undesired keywords and press the X key.dandv wrote:When importing images, sometimes I encounter images with a lot of spam tags. I haven't found a way to just delete all tags.
Actually, there seems to be a UI bug here - new bug created:
I can select a range using shift-click, but control-click also just selects a range, or deselects a range, depending on how it is applied.
Re: Make it easy to delete keywords rapidly
Where??You can select all undesired keywords and press the X key.
I doesn't work for me...
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Re: Make it easy to delete keywords rapidly
the screenshot visible in the first post.m.Th. wrote:Where??You can select all undesired keywords and press the X key.
I doesn't work for me...
Windows 7, x64. ctrl-A also works provided I have first clicked in the keywords area to give it focus
Re: Make it easy to delete keywords rapidly
Unfortunately IPTC window works only for few formats.the screenshot visible in the first post.
Windows 7, x64. ctrl-A also works provided I have first clicked in the keywords area to give it focus
My request from here http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=35114 has much more impact since it covers all formats.
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Except it has rather different impact. I am fairly certain that deleting categories does not remove the keywords from the files themselves.m.Th. wrote:Unfortunately IPTC window works only for few formats.the screenshot visible in the first post.
Windows 7, x64. ctrl-A also works provided I have first clicked in the keywords area to give it focus
My request from here http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=35114 has much more impact since it covers all formats.
I have just tripped myself up on this earlier today, trying to get around a problem with a wrongly named category.
Do not repeat:...
- find and select all files with wrong category
- unapply the category
- delete the wrong category
- oops - all files vanish and you can't apply the new category.
So, back to the OP's question, you can at least either
- remove all keywords from one file at a time, or
- remove one bad keyword from all files at once
And of course, it all assumes that user has already chosen the option to synchronise category with keyword, in both directions.
Re: Make it easy to delete keywords rapidly
Of course, this...Except it has rather different impact. I am fairly certain that deleting categories does not remove the keywords from the files themselves.
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=34726
...is a "must fix" issue.
Classical.Lesson: apply the new category first
(not XnView related)
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