Hi Stefan,

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 8:34 AM <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, one more Lua question:
>
> How can I trigger darktable to reload a sidecar file of an
> already-imported file (and update its databas accordingly)?
>
> I have a script that externally changes the Xmp metadata of a file.
> Currently I need to restart darktable, which then recognises the
> modified sidecars and asks me to reload them.  I want to do this from
> the Lua script immediately.
>

You could try importing the image using darktable.database.import().  I'm
not sure if it would pick up the updated sidecar information or not, but
you could try it and see.

>
> Cheers
> Stefan
>
>
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Regards,

Bill

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