Impossible to remove tag

[a-phe-lei-a]

Operating system

• macOS

Application

• Terminal

I have a little bug with the tag. In my iOS I don't have any tag but in cli interface I have. And I don't know how to delete it because I have

> tag remove search
Cannot find "undefined".

[foxmask]

joplin tag list

Should list them and then you could see the I'd of the tag to delete

[a-phe-lei-a]

I don't have any id

[foxmask]

as the help show us, tag list --long should show us the ID and others details ; but it's no more the case today o_O
otherwise, if curl is familiar for you ; you can use curl -XGET http://localhost:41184/tags for example

[kamilko]

I can confirm that tags are not properly synced with terminal app.
Steps to get this problem:

• install desktop version
• point synchronisation to webdav/nextcloud
• leave default notes and tags
• install terminal version (I did everything on the same mac)
• point synchronisation to webdav/nextcloud the same as desktop ver.
• leave default notes and tags
• you can also install here mobile version, point sync as in desktop and leave default notes/tags

After this steps you will have notebooks:

• Welcome
• Welcome (desktop)
• Welcome (mobile)
• all tags duplicated by the three types of install

Now I just cleaned up my desktop application (terminal off, mobile off). Removed all notes and tags, add new notes, notebooks, etc. Fortunately I didn't add new tags here but anyway I played a lot with Import/Export from Evernote and MD files. After full synchronisation with Nextcloud - I just left the application in background.
Then I opened terminal version and waited for full sync. It took a moment but with notebooks and notes everything was synced.
Except tags.
And there is no way to delete tags from commandline because Notes for those tags doesn't exists anymore. Every attempt of :tag remove <name-some-default-tag> ends with Cannot find undefined.
The only option to cleanup those tags is by delete them from table note_tags and tags in sqlite database. Here is the my fortunate "I didn't add own tags", because you can just wipe all data from those tables, not bother with ID or name. Just run:
DELETE FROM tags; DELETE FROM note_tags;
If you already have own tags, then you must delete only the orphaned ones, first checking with some SELECT...LEFT JOIN from tables note_tags, notes and tags.
This problem is only with terminal version, mobile app synchronised tags in proper way. Except this, where they were duplicated between app version. So I think tag named "markdown" created on desktop app is not the same as tag named "markdown" created in terminal app.
I think in this case, tags should be identified by title not by id or tag_id, because this is probably duplication issue.

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