* Francesco Scaglioni <[email protected]> [02-05-17 04:58]: > Hi > > On 04/02/17 16:59, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > * Francesco Scaglioni <[email protected]> [02-04-17 11:50]: > > > > Explain more to me the problem with dt not preserving the directory > > structure. And I do not know if dt's moves are recursive, you may need to > > move each individual directory. > > > > I can create the new folder structure locally that is not a problem. > > The existing structure is : > > home//me/Photos/year/month/projects( maybe up to 4 or 5 )/? sub-projects > > If I ask DT to import recursively eg 2013 it will load the images from all > sub-folders. If I then ask DT to copy or move them to a new 2013 > destination it will do so but the folder structure below the original 2013 > is not recreated in the new target folder and all images end up getting > placed in the new 2013 folder root. > > With images going back to 2003, generally 12 sub-folders per year and then > sub-sub folders below that doing the whole thing one folder at a time would > be a real PITA. > > Googling the issue resulted in a post from 2014 that suggested manually > editing the DB to change image paths - again, not only does this sound risky > but would need to be done for every folder thus not much to gain over using > the GUI. What I was looking for was a way to eg select 2013/* and move it > en bloc whilst preserving the existing directory structure below 2013.
Francesco, did you try creating the file system first? Then try moving recursively. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo @ http://linuxcounter.net ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
