Any consequences of deleting 50,000 tags?

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I have around 60Gb data in 8 databases with more than 50,000 tags from which I use occassionally around 20. Would it make sense to delete nearly of them? Will it help to considerably decrease the sizes of databases?

Thanks!

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Yes, I would certainly remove extraneous tags with that number. An extra 30-50 may not be the biggest deal in the world but :flushed:

See this blog post:

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It is not an extra 30-50 but 50,000… Is there any way of deleting them in groups - or all of them - as now I can do it only one-by-one which makes the job impossible

Thank you for the article, I switched off the RSS tags as they might be the cause for the huge number

Thanks for your help!

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I suggest you sort to get the “odd” (say numbers only or certain prefixes) ones perhaps grouped the select with normal macOS multiple selection keys then press trash icon. Selecting a few dozen or more at a time should work.

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What do you mean by this?? Why would you have to do them one-by-one?

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Just ctrl-click and delete. I could get rid of your 50k tags in 50 seconds. Haha.

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You could flag the tags you want to keep. Then do a search for kind is tag and marked is unflagged.

I think click on the first tag in the results then shift-click on the last item will let you delete the ones you don’t want.

Would that help?

Might do a backup first. Not a sync, a backup to archive.

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