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File hashing has been suggested years ago:
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=36371

Will something like that be implemented? It could be very helpful.

It seems that nobody is objecting against going with Category Sets, so I guess it is fine to proceed that way.

1. To provide category export as JSON and XML file data for further processing.
2. Add option for file categories export to optionally add rating and color label to the export data.

you means like current TXT export?


For number 1 I mean the file under Categories->Categories Management ...

1. To provide category export as JSON and XML file data for further processing.
2. Add option for file categories export to optionally add rating and color label to the export data.

I talk about suggested keywords when typing in text field not assigned panel, right?

Yes, right, I mean when typing as well.

The reason is, I think if you have many keywords already assigned, you don't always check all keywords before assigning an additional one.
So when you type the keyword ...

So no need to have a new tag system, better is to enhance 'Category Sets'
Yes, that's what I believe but I am also interested what others think.
- "automatically apply parent keywords"
Only optionally please.
- Suggested keywords must not show keywords already added
This could be confusing ...

Perhaps it will be good to use the new UI to show keywords (white background + x icon)???


Let me think about that for a bit. I am very used to how it is now and I do not miss an x.
What I like especially is that the way it is it is very space efficient and can show a lot of categories. And I ...

There seems to be a bug when removing and re-assigning a category via the "History" section.

1. Go to Category Sets
2. Select a file
3. Assign a category by clicking a tag button
4. Assigned category should appear under "Assigned" section
5. Select another file and re-select first file
6. Now ...

I have made some additional suggestions how categories handling could be improved: viewtopic.php?f=60&t=41688

Add an search/input field for categories to Category Sets
Make it possible to assign keyboard shortcuts to category sets to assign an entire set to a file with keyboard shortcut and not clicking all tags one by one.
Let me assign a category to multiple keyboard short cuts, to assign them to ...

And here is an additional idea:

In Category Sets there are the default sections "Assigned", "Suggested" and "History".
How about to add an additional default section "Tree"? This could contain the full category tree like from the Categories pane.
This would be very handy as the sections in Category ...

I go into Folders and choose to show all images recursively. I Click then Ctrl+Click to select images and move down the list - and in doing so, move through a series of folders. When I have clicked a number (who knows, not counting, maybe 40/50/60) I click on the Category in the Categories pane ...

In 'category sets', you have no way to enter quickly keywords, and no way to view the list of keywords

This is why I am saying an input field is missing in the Category Sets. I am sure you could add such a field to Category Sets.
If you would add an input field to Category Sets, then it would be ...

What do you think about this new system to enter/access keywords quickly?


Here is what I think:
This new system is not really required because something like this is already in place within the category sets pane.
And the implementation there is superior to this new system.
The only thing that ...

It's ''catalog maintenance', not 'cache maintenance'
Yes, my bad.

you have the warning dialog box before


Unfortunately the warning box dialog does not help me much. The dialog box that I receive says

Do you want to remove entries assigned to a category?
Be careful, entries with rating ...