Am 20.05.2016 um 10:23 schrieb Dr. Marc Arnold Bach:
Hi,
I am trying to fit my workflow to me personal needs.
I have for desired workpattern:
A) I use a weak laptop to import fotos, to sort them, tag them, rate them
in the livingroom.
B) I go downstairs using a powerful PC with better display to work with DT
RAW modules or Gimp
C) I am offsite, somewhere far away and cannot await to work with newly
taken raws... I task A and start B with bad performance on a laptop. Later
I import the results together with untouched pics to central archive and
maybe start A and B again.
D) I create local copies on the laptop of old raws and take them with me.
work qwith them maybe together with workflow C's new pictures.. Later I
update the sidecars and home-DB be importing again.
A and B are done:
To be able to work with a Laptop and PC on same data I decided to put pics
and DB to a SAMBA share an a fast fileserver in my house. I mount the
filesystem with the current machine, all changes are in the NAS, DB is
fine... If I unmount and boot other machine it will find same DB, same
raws, same paths...
C and D are tricky... having DB on a disconnected network, darktable is
not starting because the mountpoint folder /mnt/fotos is owned by root =<
readonly.
no DB can be created, it crashes..
Even if I would create a local DB, discard it after a while and would
import the raws + sidecars at home again.... how to deal with local copies?
I cannot believe that I am the only one in the world with the purpose to
use a laptop offline and being in sync with a local workstation with access
to an advanced storage solution to get a centralized backup.
A professional takes pics of employees somewhere, shows first results to
customer, plays around in train with files to use the time. Arrives at
home, rates in the garden and later after kids are in bed he is using
workstation to finish the job...
Lightroom (what I used before) was unflexible as well but at least it was
supporting a DB per filmrole and did not insist that each folder is a
separat filmrole...
in exchange it rejected network based DBs and was slow.
Any ideas? Using sidecars as info provider is possible but really slow...
I would need a DB sync of a local and central one...
Darktable has limited support for editing “detached” files. However, the
complex workflow that you describe may require a system that can
resemble this work flow. I suggest to have a look at
http://git-annex.branchable.com/. Of course this is an xmp-based
workflow, but I would guess you have no other option. With git-annex,
you could have your sidecars version-controlled in git and the raws and
output files (also version-controlled) in git-annex. This is kind of a
seamless integration. Git-annex can care about distributing your files
among your devices and you can do things like copying a bunch of files
for editing during a travel and let the system put them back later. All
of your files will always be visible to dt on all devices, but if file
contents are tried to access but are not there, the system will try to
get them from wherever a duplicate of the file lies. It can therefore as
well access several cloud providers and can store files encrypted.
I always wanted to give it a try for photo management but I never had
the time, and I have only one computer, so it is enough for me to have
the xmp files in a git.
One could dream about darktable interacting smarter with changed xmp
files, git and git-annex, if you have some programming skills you could
try using the internal lua scripting e.g. to commit new versions into
git whenever a xmp file is written. I always wanted to try this but I
have very limited time constraints at the moment and very limited
programming skills as well.
Best regards
Chris
Currently I only can think about using DT in a separate offline account and
copy sidecars arround.....
Regards
Marc
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