Deleting Multiple Tags?
I just imported several folders to Zotero and it imported all kinds of weird tags (even though I had this option unchecked). Even after I clicked "Delete Automatic Tags in this Library" there were still thousands of tags left. Is there a way to mass-delete these? I don't want any of them and would prefer to start from scratch with my own.
The Zutilo plugin can remove all tags from selected items. (A future version of Zotero will include that capability as a built-in feature.)
It is not clear how best to delete multiple tags in bulk/batches.
1. Install Zutilo
2. Assuming that the tags you'd like to keep are not in their hundreds, select each tag you'd like to keep, and move all the items with that tag into a new collection, named after your tag. Repeat for each tag you'd like to keep.
3. Use Zutilo to delete all tags from your library
4. In each of your new collections select all the items and assign a new tag named after that collection. Since items can be multiple collections, they will also receive multiple tags.
5. Delete the new collections you created in step 2.
6. Problem solved!