Auto-Preserve and TAGS

[keithlm]

I recently realized that using actual directory names to navigate around photos gets painful after you collect a certain amount of pictures. So I start tagging all of my photos. I added a tag to everything that was present in "No Tags" in the Tags.

PROBLEM: After I got done... I noticed that some of the tags showed "duplicates". I tracked that down to the fact that the pictures in the "Auto-Preserve" directories show up in the Tags. So you have the "original" and the "edited" show up.

SUMMARY: if a picture has a tag is in the "normal" directory and you edit and save (with auto-preserve on) it will keep that tag and also show up as a duplicate in the "Tag" section under that tag. (Of coures it only shows up once in if you navigate using the real directory structure... but using a tag as an "Album" is easier.)

I found several solutions:
1. Go into all the auto-preserve directories and remove the tags and then add a tag called "AutoPreserve" to those pictures. This is less than optimal because if you then restore the original... you will either lose the original tag... or the program might add both tags to the file in the "real" directory. Meh.

2. If you add an Auto-Preserve directory to the "Uncatalogued folders" of the programs preferences it won't show up as a dupe in the Tags. But to do all of those directories you would have to go in and manually add each of your existing Auto-Preserve directories to the uncatalogued folders in the preferences. Plus you'd have to add any new ones.

QUESTION: Does anyone knows of a file I can edit to add a "wildcard" to the list of uncatalogued folders. BTW: adding an auto-preserve to the uncatalogued folders does not disable the auto-preserve or restore original functionality.

[teknisyan]

That would be an INI file. But I really do not know which INI file.