On dimanche 5 février 2017 12:06:29 CET Francesco Scaglioni wrote: > HI, > > On 05/02/17 10:41, Remco Viëtor wrote: > > On dimanche 5 février 2017 09:56:26 CET Francesco Scaglioni wrote: > >> 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. > > > > Does darktable have a problem with symbolic links? If not, why not have: > > "/home/me/Photos/2017/..." for current year as direct storage on SSD > > "/home/me/Photos/2016" as a symbolic link to "/home/me/media/photos/2016" > > ? > > And the same for 2003--2015, so 14 folders to move, 14 symlinks to create; > > sounds like a job for a bash script. Note that the number of folders under > > the year is not important here. > > > > At the end of the year: > > *close DarkTable* > > move /home/me/Photos/2017/... to /home/me/media/photos/ > > create a new directory for 2018 > > create a symlink for 2017 > > > > This way, you keep the original folder structure. > > Indeed, changing the folder structure is going to cause a lot of work, but > > as long as it's repetitive, scripting should be possible, as it's > > basically changing a *part* of the pathname in a known and constant way. > > I had thought about symlinks ( I assume that they can be created > recursively ) - my worry was that if I then decide to delete old photos > then the symlink would be deleted and not the image. If I edit and old > photo and export a sidecar file would the sidecar file end up in the > same folder as the image ?
If you'd have to create symlinks recursively down to the level of individual photos, there would be NO interest in using them... Sorry, but I guess you'll have to read up on what symbolic links are and do. Too much to explain here. Remco. ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
