I regularly create a advanced filter to check foto’s which have no TAG assign for a specific person. Now after selecting a bunch of foto’s. Somtimes, not alway when I choose right mouse, ADD tag and type the first letter to jump to the first tag with that letter it immediately assinges the first in the list tagging thousands of foto’s with a wrong tag and so I need to hope to find the wrong tag and remove it.
I found out that the TAGS with an ‘&’ in it have this issue.
Goto a folder with a lot of foto’s, ctrl-a right click add tag, type a letter of a tag
Mike OK I have just tested it. The behaviour I see is when you start typing first letter of the tag, menu would scroll to the tag with that name, but only there is multiple tags that starts with this letter.
However, if ther is only one tag with this letter, it will assign it immediately. Well, it looks to me that this behavious is quite logical and does not constitute a bag.
Wel let me show you are correct, but I have multiple tags starting with the letter ‘D’
Somehow I alway get the ‘D&D’ assinged just below the first entry. alto in the tag list it shows up as “DD”
That first tag has been assigned bij other software, and is as far as I know a valid entry.
When I pres the P I het the S, also auto assiging the first match in a long list gives a bad result since you cannot verify the tag is correct.
Mike Yep, this is bug. I added to the code screening of & signs so system will not treat them as hothey indicator. Now they will be properly displayed. However, it does seem this does not eleminate problem entirely. Sometimes pressing keys will not scroll to next element, it wil still simulate click. But there is not much I can do about it, this is what Windows does. In any case, it definitely became better after those changes.
Please check 1.9.11 that has just been released.
Just created a TAG in TF with an & in it called A&B, after doeing this the letter B will no longer work and assign a wrong tag without my consent. When dealing with this bug, I also noticed issue with other special characters. this it was “'” single quote.
If you try it yourself you will see, if you add tag A&B -> first tag with letter B will get assigned if you add tag A&C -> first tag with letter B will get assigned…..yes latest version.
I regularly get wrong TAG assignment due to the fact that if there is only ONE tag with the letter you type it get’s automatically assigned. If you remove this feature, this bug also will not apply the wrong tag ??
I now create a extra tag for each letter to prevent the bug from tagging thousend of photo’s wrong, and syncing with ondedrive, rescanning removeing resyncinc, fixin, resyncin…..hope you see my delemma.
Mike Yeah, I see your pain. The thing is, there is not much I can do in this case. This behavior is not part of my code, this is either UI framewrk or even Windows itself. Not somthing you can easily change. Actually there is another task in backlog - adding another form for quick assigmnent of tags and albums, something analogous to F2 for assigning people. I think once that will be released, this problem will not bother you anymore since you will stop using context menus for assigning tags.
However, right not it is not first priority so I can’t actually tell when this will be relased.
