Thank you jys and Patric. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Regards,
Niranjan
On 9/27/19 4:57 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Niranjan Rao <[email protected]> [09-27-19 19:53]:
Greetings,
darktable 2.6.2, Ubuntu 18.04
I'm trying to get more organized for my photos and even tagging them. I used
FSLint janitor for Ubuntu to clear duplicate images. I did run a query
against darktable DB to get the complete list of images and wrote a simple
shell script to check existence of these images. To my amazement, more than
50% of my images do not exist now. I'm not worried about this part as I know
I deleted these images - copying from same card in multiple locations or
sometimes using /tmp directory etc.
My problem is how do I cleanup the database? I would rather not start from
scratch or with new database as significant number of (existing) images have
tags. My shell script provides a list of images that don't exist. I want
remove these from darktable database. I can adjust my script if data being
fed needs to be in different format.
Film role may or may not exists as I am in process of jpeg files when raw
files are available, again with the help of a script. Some film roles or
directories are missing and in some cases only a particular image is missing
as raw file exists.
Side car xmp files seems to contain tag information. So my best and easiest
option seems to be cleanup image directory, remove existing database and
reimport everything again.
Does this option sound reasonable? Any other better way to do this - like
selecting non existent or skull images from gui?
available on dt site:
/usr/share/darktable/tools/purge_non_existing_images.sh
I believe that will help you and more quickly/easily than recreating your
db...
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