Title: Orphaned Term Relationship
Last modified: January 9, 2019

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# Orphaned Term Relationship

 *  Resolved [lilap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lilap/)
 * (@lilap)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orphaned-term-relationship/)
 * Hi team,
 * Just thought I would post this to get more info. I have started to realise that
   those optimise and clean wordpress plugins regard Next Gen Gallery metadata as“
   Orphaned Term Relationship”.
 * I did some testing, when I have images with tags/metadata/keywords on the image,
   it removes those tags because it was “Orphaned Term Relationship”. Are metadata
   etc really orphaned or can the tags be related to the gallery ID?

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 *  [gabyimagely](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabyimagely/)
 * (@gabyimagely)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orphaned-term-relationship/#post-11074700)
 * Hi [@lilap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lilap/)
 * Could you be so kind as to let us know which plugin are you currently using to
   clean your database?
 * I really don’t think it’s ok for you to delete those tags.
    But We would like
   to reproduce the problem on a testing site so we can inform or chat with our 
   developers about it.
 * – Gaby
 *  Thread Starter [lilap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lilap/)
 * (@lilap)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orphaned-term-relationship/#post-11074851)
 * Hi Gabby,
 * The one that deleted meta data or keywords was Sweep. Note that it did not delete
   all the image keywords but removed 70% of the galleries keywords from images.
   No idea why.
 * Thanks
 *  [gabyimagely](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabyimagely/)
 * (@gabyimagely)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orphaned-term-relationship/#post-11117748)
 * Hi [@lilap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lilap/)!
 * Sorry about the late response, I’ll try to let our developers know about this.
   
   Let’s see if it is something we need to report as a bug. Thank you so much. We’ll
   keep you posted.
 * – Gaby, Customer Support.
 *  [gabyimagely](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabyimagely/)
 * (@gabyimagely)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orphaned-term-relationship/#post-11131141)
 * Hi [@lilap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lilap/)!
 * Apologies for the late reply.
    After some digging, our developer informed us 
   that what Sweep is doing is wrong; it’s wiping out our (correctly stored) image
   tags.
 * So please, if you are able, share that information with the Sweep support team.
   
   We are happy to provide some guidance in our code if necessary, that, of course,
   needs a bug report, but please, check with them first and keep us posted.
 * – Gaby, Customer Support.
 *  Thread Starter [lilap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lilap/)
 * (@lilap)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orphaned-term-relationship/#post-11131149)
 * Hello.
 * Excellent, no worries at all. Will notify the Sweep team.
 *  [gabyimagely](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabyimagely/)
 * (@gabyimagely)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orphaned-term-relationship/#post-11131159)
 * Thank you [@lilap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lilap/)!
 * Please, keep us posted.
 * – Gaby, Customer Support.

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orphaned-term-relationship/#post-11131159)
 * Status: resolved