* Jean-Luc CECCOLI <[email protected]> [03-08-19 18:09]: > Hello, > I recently moved the contents of my small HDs to one bigger. Well, not really > moved, just copied so far. > As a side effect, none of my photos can be retrived, since the name of the > current HD is different from those of the previous ones. > The safest way to deal with this would be to clear the DB, then re-import the > whole contents.
yes, I just completed the same operation or similar. I moved a large collection of images, > 40,000 to a larger hard-drive by selected subj images in dt removed images from dt physically moved images [re]imported images into dt dt re-read the xmp files and all appears to work as expected/wanted. > But, then, I would have to manually process the photos year by year, since I > apply a preset that writes the year the photo was taken at import. I manually > update it each year. I guess I fail to understand this, "writes the year ..." if you refer to writing the year as a tag, dt get the tag from the xmp file. > Of course, if it was possible to use variables within the metadata fields, so > one could write, for instance "Copyright $Year_Taken", and the field would be > filled with the appropriate value, things would be far easier. Unfortunately, > my request still remains at the same point. all my files contain copyright $year and the moved files maintained that. > So, the second way would be to replace the paths directly within the DB which > - I confess - I can't do. > >From sqlitebrowser, I could open the DB and find where the paths appear, but > >I couldn't find anything looking like a find & replace tool. > Maybe someone there could give me some hint ? warning, the process took me several days. part of the extensive time was having jpg files in part of the collection, requiring I import also jpg files and then remove the unwanted. and I did not sit and watch. removal of the unwanted jpgs was minor as I knew exactly where they were. -- (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 [email protected]
