* Willy Williams <grayc...@bolthole.net> [10-10-18 19:05]:
> I have three laptops on which Darktable is installed; two Windows 10 and one
> Ubuntu Linux.  I generally sync the two Windows computers' photos folders,
> including JPEGs, RAW files and XMP sidecar files.  I've begun to wonder if
> I'm shooting myself in the foot by doing so.  The question is this - are the
> sidecar files closely tied to an internal Darktable database on the computer
> where the work was done?  Am I making the dog's breakfast of things by
> syncing files and in doing so, inadvertently getting the sidecar files out
> of sync with the unique database associated with each computer?

if you move files to a different computer (and library) from where they
were generated, just have the new computer (darktable) read the xmp file
accompanying the images and the library will then match.

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