is it because you are telling it that the next characters will be a file
name? but when it reports what file was created it says /x/y/z//picturename
(notice the double slash

On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 7:05 PM Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]> wrote:

> * Michael <[email protected]> [10-14-18 18:53]:
> > WELL.... I got it to work by putting a trailing slash on it
> > [$(FILE_FOLDER)/].
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 6:01 PM Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > * Willy Williams <[email protected]> [10-14-18 17:03]:
> > > > Be sure that you use the command in the right form, like this -
> > > > F:\\Photos\\Exports\\$(FILE_NAME).  Note the double backslashes.  It
> > > works
> > > > quite well.
> > > >
> > > > Willy
> > > >
> > > > *************************************************
> > > > On 10/14/2018 at 16:45, Michael wrote:
> > > > > I've always wanted to be able to save to the folder the file is
> from
> > > and
> > > > > today I was looking at the options under under 'export selected'
> and
> > > > > noticed, '$(FILE_FOLDER)'. Cool except it doesn't want to work. it
> > > saves
> > > > > to the directory immediately above. if you want to see this
> graphically
> > > > > I want to save file 'x/y/z/pic to directory 'z' in directory
> /x/y/z but
> > > > > it saves it to directory 'y'. Any idea what os wrong? Is this a
> bug or
> > > > > am I being goofy.
> > > > >
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> > > from the appearance of his post, he is using a linux system, not
> windows
> > > and he would want something like:
> > >   $(FILE_FOLDER)/DrkTbl/$(FILE_NAME)
> > >
> > > "$(FILE_FOLDER)" being where the original images reside.
> > >
> > >
> > > look at the definitions in the fine manual.
> > >   https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/en/export_selected.html
> > >
> > >   base directory naming pattern:  $(PICTURES_FOLDER)/DrkTbl
> > >   subdirectory naming pattern:    $(YEAR)$(MONTH)$(DAY)_$(JOBCODE)
> > >   file naming pattern:
> > > $(YEAR)$(MONTH)$(DAY)_$(SEQUENCE).$(FILE_EXTENSION)
> > >
> > >
> > > above is three lines, will probably wrap in your client.
> > >
> > >
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> do you understand why?
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