Hi all, As those of us who have ever used Lightroom probably know, LR writes its .xmp files with the following format: <filename>.xmp darktable on the other hand, prefers: <filename>.<extension>.xmp So, as an experiment, I grabbed a folder of images from my LR catalogue (a bunch of Sony .arw RAW files, plus the LR-generated .xmp files), copied it to a USB key, and dropped it onto my linux system. I then ran a batch rename on just the .xmp files, to insert ".arw" into the filename just prior to the extension. This gave me .xmp files in the format that dt prefers. When I imported that folder into darktable, all the keywords appeared in their hierarchical nature (eg: Australia|New South Wales|Sydney) as I anticipated. But then last night, I decided to try something else. I grabbed my external USB 3.0 drive (the backup of my Win7 photos folder), and copied another folder across to my linux machine. Without doing the aforementioned rename of the .xmp files, I went ahead and imported the folder into darktable. And what I discovered was that darktable imported ALL the keywords that it found in the .xmp files, BUT IT DID IT TWICE! :) Once, in the hierarchical fashion, and once in a non-hierarchical fashion. So, to use the previous example, I ended up with the following keywords attached to an image:
Australia Australia|New South Wales|Sydney New South Wales Sydney Is there a simple way to clean this up? Or would you have to go through and manually remove all redundant keywords? Yes, I do realise you can select multiple files to remove a keyword from all at once, but it seems you would have to do this for EACH KEYWORD you wanted to remove. Am I missing anything? Cheers, Bruce Williams ------------------------------ brucewilliamsphotography.com shuttersincpodcast.com sinelanguagepodcast.com audio2u.com e-mail <[email protected]> | Twitter <http://twitter.com/@audio2u> | LinkedIn <http://au.linkedin.com/pub/bruce-williams/1/318/489> | Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/audio2u> ------------------------------ ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
