On 16/08/2016 20:46, Willem Ferguson wrote:
I wish to display all my photos that share a specific EXIF tag or
partial file name (=file name contains), irrespective of where these
photos lie in the directory tree or in the Darktable database. Can
this be done within the present version?
If not, what is the approach that you would take? I was thinking of
writing code that uses the EXIV2 API and then copy all these files to
a temporary directory. Then I can use Darktable to view these photos.
Or is there a much simpler approach? dk? I am convinced most of the
readers of this list must have grappled with this problem before.
Because of the sidecars I would prefer to stay within the dt environment.
Kind regards,
willem
Hi Willem,
I think you can find useful information at three following link (dt user manual)
http://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch02s03s02.html.php
Regards,
Ivan
The limitation of the collections tool is that one can only select
complete tags, not parts of tags. Let's say I have the following EXIF
title tags: "Sunset thunder", "Thunder at Yosemite", "Thunder shower at
sea" and "Thunderbolt". I need to select four keys to find all of these
images. Today I worked with a collection needing 12 keys! If I could
apply a substring search (better even, a regular expression) to this
EXIF field, it would be extremely simple and time-efficient, especially
if one frequently does complex filters on a large image collection. I
know there are many requests for features, but this would really make
the collection handling quite powerful and, moreover, it is already part
of the existing sqLite infrastructure. dt developers, what do you think?
And thank you for a GREAT application.
Kind regards,
willem
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