On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 15:10, Bernhard Rulla <[email protected]> wrote: > when I am working in parallel with darktable (lighttable) and my Windows > Explorer, I sometimes notice that > the information (files shown) in the lighttable does not match with the files > available in the Windows Explorer. > In other words: when I delete a file and insert new ones, I do not get the > files aligned/updated in the lighttable.
Darktable does not re-scan your directories. When you import files or directories (folders), the list of files and their metadata will be inserted into darktable's database. If you delete a file outside of darktable, the software won't be able to open it; the deleted file's thumbnail will be replaced by a skull. If you add new files, they will not be imported automatically: you have to import them, either as individual files or the whole directory (it will not cause any problem like duplication). To get rid of the 'skulls' (if you have many), the simplest procedure is to filter for the files in the folder, select all, click Remove (*not* Delete!), then re-import the directory's contents. There's also a script that can remove files from the database if they no longer exist on the disk. Kofa ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
