* I. Ivanov <[email protected]> [12-23-18 17:57]:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I had an unfortunate event to clear metadata from about 600 images (it took
> me close to 3h to restore as much as I could).
>
> Because there is no "undo" this brings me to the question.
>
> What can I do to have a good backup for such cases? I can backup easily (and
> very frequent) "/home/myhome/.config/darktable"
>
> However - if metadata (or tags) happen to be deleted by accident and I
> restore the DB - how can I push the DB to re populate the XMP files?
perhaps (not tried), remove the images from the db
import the images again
will/should read the accompaning xmp files
or, maybe just telling dt to read the xmp files will work
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