Am Freitag, 3. März 2017, 15:17:11 CET schrieb Matthias Bodenbinder: > Am 03.03.2017 um 13:46 schrieb Roman Lebedev: > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Matthias Bodenbinder > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> i had to move my pictures to a different folder. > > > > Did you move XMP sidecars too? > > Or did you disable creation of those sidecars? > > I did move the whole folder structure including all sidecar files. From that > point of view I assume that I did not loose any edits. > >> I reimported the pictures with DT. The old folder is gone so I had to run > >> purge_non_existing_images.sh to get rid of all entries pointing to the > >> old folder. But with this exercise I lost all star ratings and probably > >> other settings as well which I am not aware of yet.> > > I'd guess all the edits are gone too. > > Don't mess with imported images behind dt's back. > > There is move functionality in lighttable. > > > >> I have a copy of the old library.db. How can I copy the settings from old > >> to new db? The folder structure is basically the same. I just moved the > >> root directory of the pictures. Going from /xxx/yyy/Fotos;... to > >> /aaa/bbb/Fotos.> > > There is this little thing: > > https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch02s03s02.html.php#d0e2501 > > I will have a look at that. But what I would prefer is first of all an > explanation about what I am actually missing if all sidecar files are still > next to the raw file. Which image specific edits are stored in the db?
Just grouping of images and date/time offsets applied in the geolocation module. Everything else (including ratings) are in the XMPs. Well, and presets and styles of course (the latter are backed up to the disk though) if you nuked the whole library. > Matthias Tobias
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