I symlink my image files from external storage to my laptop for older files and darktable handles it just fine.
Regards, Bill On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Matthieu Moy <[email protected] > wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > Copying the folders is easy, but how do I tell darktable > > that all the images now live in a new location (and to no longer > reference > > the external drive)? > > Hi, > > In complement to what others already said: > > * This kind of scenarios is a good reason to keep .xmp files activated. If > you have .xmp files everywhere, you can always re-import whatever you want > wherever you want, the info is still there. > > * To avoid this kind of scenarios, it's nice to have a file hierarchy that > is not too dependant on the physical storage: use symbolic links (I'm not > sure exactly what dt does with symlinks though) and mountpoints. Then you > can change a hard drive and keep the same paths. > > -- > Matthieu Moy > https://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ > ____________________________________________________________ > ________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscribe@ > lists.darktable.org > > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
