Re-importing an already imported image through the regular GUI does cause the sidecar to be re-read. I have not tried this through Lua.
-- August Schwerdfeger [email protected] On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:14 AM William Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> >> >> -- >> http://stefan-klinger.de o/X >> I prefer receiving plain text messages, not exceeding 32kB. /\/ >> \ >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________ >> darktable user mailing list >> to unsubscribe send a mail to >> [email protected] >> >> > Regards, > > Bill > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
