or you update the path within lighttable:
updating folder path
While it is best to not touch imported files behind darktable's back,
this module can help you recover from situations when you move
imported folders after import. The collect images module has a feature
that allows you to tell darktable about the new location of imported
folders which have been moved. You set the combobox to /folders/ to
find the original folder name in the tree. The folder name will be
displayed striked-out to emphasize that it is no longer there. Then
you right-click on the folder name, select “search filmroll...”, and
then select the new location of the folder.
https://darktable.gitlab.io/doc/en/collect_images.html - last paragraph
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regards
Bernhard
https://www.bilddateien.de
August Schwerdfeger schrieb am 28.08.19 um 07:28:
There is a shell script in the Darktable repository that will
automatically purge from the database any image whose file does not exist:
https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/blob/master/tools/purge_non_existing_images.sh
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August Schwerdfeger
[email protected]
On 8/28/19 12:00 AM, Greg Minshall wrote:
hi. i have discovered a situation where about 3,000 of my images have a
full path that is incorrect, presumably because of user error. my
question is how i should fix these paths.
normally, "full path" points into
----
~/Pictures/Collection/...
----
which is where rapid-photo-downloader leaves things.
in these 3,000 cases, "full path" points at, e.g.,
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/media/minshall/Leica M/DCIM/100LEICA/...
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i.e., presumably where rapid-photo-downloader *found* the image (or,
where i told darktable to find the image). these 3,000 images (as far
as i can tell) all exist in the "right place" in
~/Pictures/Collection/....
i find i can just "import" the folders (or my entire
~/Pictures/Collection) to get the actual images.
but, then i'm left with residual images pointing to bad places. for
example, after doing the re-import, for one image i have (collecting by
filename):
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~/Pictures/Collection/2016/2016-03-26/L2001723.DNG
/media/minshall/LEICA M/DCIM/100LEICA/L2001723.DNG
/media/minshall/sdcard/DCIM/100LEICA/L2001723.DNG
----
i.e., three copies (*this* user, i.e., me, when he makes a user error,
does it up well :).
so, i guess the question is, how to clean up darktable's database, i.e.,
delete all entries that have a "full path" that matches some pattern (in
this case, "^/media/minshall"? (i'm happy to lose any edits in the
unlikely event i edited any of these images.)
second, is there a way (some lua script, perhaps?) i could use to *list*
(on the terminal) all the entries that start with some pattern, so i can
(more easily) get a handle on the scope of the problem? for example,
with this, i could verify that i have local copies of all the images
before deleting (or, if i don't, scrounge through old SD cards, looking
for them).
thanks!
Greg
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