Open bagarwa opened 1 month ago
Hello @bagarwa, Did you import the tags?
Once all of the pictures are loaded into Allusion you need to go to settings (or press S)
Import/Export on the side
And click Import
If this doesn't work it would be interesting to see what metadata tag are your tags using, there are multiple ones
Hi @Antoine-lb Thank you so much for your response and guiding me with steps. I did not even think of checking the settings. I was expecting the tags to just show up after adding the root folder to the app. I'm so glad that it is there. Finally found such an app.
So... looks like there's still some gap. After doing that "Import", Allusion is creating a copy of those tags in-app. When I open an image in-app and remove some of the tags, those changes are saved only in-app, not in the actual image. The image's actual tags in the EXIF data don't change.
Yes, there's the "Export tags to file metadata" button in settings. But having to do that after every tag change is not a good workflow. It'd have been better if there was a "save" or such option in the tag editor page that saved the changes directly on the file EXIF.
EDIT: I did try the "Export tags to file metadata" now, and it does seem to work and file metadata shows updated tags, after a minute or so, the old tags are getting restored!! No idea what's happening there.
Hello @bagarwa
those changes are saved only in-app, not in the actual image.
That is correct
But having to do that after every tag change is not a good workflow
Completely agree, but I'm not a mantainer of Allusion, I can't make changes to the repo. It's why we made a fork of it https://onefolder.app/. In this fork we have plans to remove the need for importing and exporting tags. We already simplified the import process, now we have to fix the export.
Sadly I can't help you more than that on Allusion :/
Looks like this app only works with it's own proprietary tags. I have thousands of photos with multiple tags added to them, and Windows 11 file explorer recognizes them. But this app doesn't recognize any.
I'm looking for an app that will let me browse my photo library by exif tags. Like this -
Does such an app exist?