Hi, my name is Uwe,
I just joined this list since I got a question and I would like to say
hello to all of you.
I am quite new to DT, trying to find out how to use it in an efficient
and consistent way.
So far, I have not used anything like DT but just browsed my images by
some display programs and used Gimp if anything was to edit, fix, etc.
A tool actually made to manage (photographic) images (especially
tagging, selecting, ...) is needed now :-)
Y'day I experienced some strange phenomenon:
I had imported about 100 images, some individually, some in folders,
had tagged them, had starred them. Then I unintentionally closed TD
(it was late at night :-(
When I reopened DT, I still had the collections of images I'd
generated from them, but no images were there, and neither were the
film rolls they were in.
The *.xmp files on the file system were still there, though.
So I started to re-import the images, and the system recognized the
metadata (the re-imported images all had their previously given tags
and ratings back!). Is there some explanation? Why were the images
gone from the film roll view, but all their metadata were still known
to the system and a re-import did not re-write the metadata but could
refer to the old ones?
And: what happens now if I close DT (again, and intentionally?) Would
again all recently imported images be gone? Mind: older images I'd
imported way before have all the time be accessible in DT.
Valid explanations are very welcome.
If you say RTFM please provide a hint where to look, so far my
investigations in the dociumentation have not helped me.
Thanks to you in advance
and thaks also to the developers to provide such a tool.
Uwe
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