Adding/changing image to a term also changes the parent as well as the other terms that share the same parent

[lef-est]

Description
Sable has the parent marten.
Marten and Ermine have the parent weasel.
I wanted each to have a different image: marten will using the image of an European pine marten, ermine will using the image of a stoat, weasel will use the image of the least weasel, and sable that of the sable. But changing the image of any one term also changes the others, even when they already have an associated image. I also made sure to uncheck "Link to parent" when doing this.

In the end I found a solution:

1. Unlink all parents.
2. Add images to all these terms.
3. Add back the parent tags.

Edited to add
I know that the "parent" is meant for the linguistic parent, but I really want to use this to help me distinguish these confusable animals as well as to remember the biological relationship of them. "Tags" on the other hand are less clear.
I believe this also applies to when the "parent" function is used correctly, say, a user might want to have different images for "happy" and "unhappy".

Extra software info, if not already included in the Description:
Lute 3.4.3, Windows pip install

[jzohrab]

Hm, linking shouldn't have had an effect! If you add an image to a child, it gets added to the parent if the parent image is blank -- if the parent already has an image, that's left alone

On the hover pop-up for a child term, both the parent and the child's images are shown (if they exist).

("Parent" is really for whatever you want it to be, but having it as the linguistic parent (or "lemma") is my use of it. Also, I use tags quite a lot, but to classify things, e.g. I have a tags for work, hobbies, animals, drinks, food, money ... etc etc., and add them to a bunch of terms, just to keep things interesting.)

[jzohrab]

I'll have to look into this, thanks for the note @lef-est.

[lef-est]

Possibly related:
When a term has an associated parent, the "Images" tab will show the search results of the parent instead.

[jzohrab]

"Images" tab will show the search results of the parent instead.

Yes, that's by design. :-)