Batch removal of unwanted tags

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1

Stupid me. I spent hours creating an elaborate tag system, and now I want to get rid of it. Would like to be able to select several dozen tags and remove them from all drafts. Is this possible? If so, how?

2

You cannot select multiple tags at the same time, there is a “Delete Tag” command in the contextual menu of tags in the tag filter list, however, to do it one-by-one.

3

depending on the amount of tags it might make sense to create a script for that to delete them.

if you remove a tag from all drafts that have it, the tag will also be deleted AFAIK.

6

simple enough script would be :

badTags = ['tag1','tag2 ','tag3'] // lower case   
for (b of badTags) {
let dArr = Draft.query("", "all", [b]) 
    // assembles all drafts with that tag,     
    // regardless of content or location
alert(dArr.length + " drafts found tagged with '" + badTag + "', will delete that tag from all.")
 // if desired, delete the alert line (it is unnecessary, info only)

for (d of dArr) {
   d.removeTag(badTag);
   d.update();
   } // end of d of dArr loop

} // end of b of bTags loop

This strips the tags from all drafts, though I think the bad Tag still will still show in the recent tags list for the immediate future, but it will drop aside eventually.

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