* 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. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org