Vista - Can´t delete tags

Hi all,

I have been trying to delete tags I don´t use any longer in Windows Photo
Gallery. They just keep coming back.
I seriously am going to loose my mind! I just tags for my pictures of my
baby. After one month, I put them on a dvd, an remove the tags from the
pictures. Naturally I want to remove the tag. Not possible. I have tried to
outsmart PG by trying to rename them, but the OLD name comes back, and the
damn PG keeps a new tag with the NEW name too!

Please help me - what am I doing wrong? I have been trying to find the pd4
file I have read about in other memos below, but I just can´t find a name
like that. We have Vista.

I have been trying to remov these -approx - fifty tags for a month now.
Tonight I suddenly managed to remov all but six of them. And these last six
won´t go away.

Please help me before I start to look for a sledgehammer,

thanks ever so much,
yours gratefully
Morran

You didn't say how your were trying to remove the tags or what type of files
you are having the problem with so perhaps the following is not of use.

The way I remove tags

in Windows Live Photo
in the left pane right click on the tag I wish to remove
select delete
confirm that I want to remove the tags, the tag is gone.

If there were some read only jpgs that had that tag (such on DVDs) then
obviously they would come back in the left pane.
(the tags in a jpg are within the file itself).

Michael



"Morran " <carita.jagenheim@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Oh, thank you for replying so quickly...

I have tried BOTH to right click and choose delete, AND to mark the tag and
press the delete-button. Nothing works. The part about DVD I didn´t
understand...sorry.....all the tags are tags I have made myself, and for
photos only. I name them with DVD just to remember that all the pictures
with that tag are to be burnt-down to a dvd-record. So they are named DVD
for May, DVD for June and so on. Could that be a part of the problem?
( but I have one tag named Album for Lisa and one named Grandma´s
papercopies 04dec07-ongoing)

After I have burnt down all the pictures under e g DVD for May, I naturally
want to delete the tag and create one for June and so on. I could settle for
renaming only, but that doesn´t work either.

Sigh.

Help again?
( still grateful for your reply)



"Michael Walraven" <mexxwalraven@xxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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Hm.

I just noticed the line about jpg being a file itself. And as I am not an
expert, I didn´t understand that either.
All my pictures are jpg-files...is that the problem? I am sorry that I am so
stupid, but I have search the windows help-pages with a fine-tooth comb so
find a solution, but there is NOTHING about deleting tags exept for "press
delete". And that I could figure out myself.

Michael, so far you are my hero. Please don´t go away...

"Michael Walraven" <mexxwalraven@xxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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Some files have a designated place inside themselves (jpg for instance) to
hold tags. When you add tags the file is actually changed and the tags added
to the file. Other files do not have places inside themselves for the tags,
in that case the tags are associated with the files in the photo gallery's
data base (the pd4 files). To find your pd4 file location,
left click start orb, type pd4 in the search box, in short order you should
see 'pictures.pd4' in the list right click then properties to find out where
it is located or select 'open file location' to simply go to it.

What I would do.

Left click on the troublesome tag. Examine the pictures that that tag brings
up (right click, properties). Are they located in non-standard areas, are
they write protected? Are they something other than jpg? Who owns the
picture (security tab). You need to discover what is different between
pictures that you can remove the tag from and ones you cannot remove the
tag. Sorry I cannot be of more help.

Michael

"Morran " <carita.jagenheim@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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