Hi, I'm interested if something is missing. Those skulls represent something you have had and potentially worked on and now they have disappeared. Is it on purpose or by accident? It's like do you care where your wallet is if you still have money on your bank account.
-Juha On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 23:10, Dr. A. Krebs <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear August, Dear Gray Card, Dear Patrick: > > thank you for so quick response. I wasn't able to find this explanation > so quickly. > > If such visual representations for missing files as "skulls" seem not to > bear extremely relevant information, I like to suggest to run those > mentioned scripts (chapter 2.2.3.2, Gray Card, and the script, Patrick > mentioned, automatically triggered in background. > > What would be the advantage to know, if there is s.th. missing? > > Instead of dealing with missing file, I prefer caring about existing ones. > > Thanks again, > > > Axel > - > Am 11.03.20 um 21:33 schrieb Patrick Shanahan: > > * Dr. A. Krebs <[email protected]> [03-11-20 16:13]: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I use darktable 3.0.1. 64 bit under Linux. > >> > >> Instead of picture-previews, I can see only cryptic icons (attachment). > >> What do these icons mean? > >> How can I avoid these? > >> > >> Is it necessary to "maintain" the darktable database? > >> Or: Is this done automatically? > > > > they are not "cryptic icons" but representations of missing images in > your > > library. Images which you have relocated or deleted outside of dt and > now > > dt has no knowledge of them. Utilize dt to perform these actions and you > > will not experience "cryptic icons". > > > > there exists a shell script to remove them from your library: > > /usr/share/darktable/tools/purge_non_existing_images.sh > > and from your cache: > > /usr/share/darktable/tools/purge_from_cache.sh > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
