Hi J. Verreault (2020-Mar-28, excerpt): > Can someone help me with the bold part please...?
DT stores the processing you do on an image in two places, an SQL database, and an XML file. The database allows for fast searching in a huge collection, and the files allow to organize (backup, copy, send) your images using the usual operations an operating system offers. Both ways have their (dis)advantages. Unfortunately, having both introduces bad redundancy. (Redundancy is not always bad, e.g., backups are good). This redundancy is bad, because every change has to be recorded in both places consistently. And when the sidecar file and the internal database actually disagree, then you have to figure out which one is the definitive source of truth. The discrepancy might arise from a crash or a bug, but also legitimately, e.g., because an external tool or even DT has just modified one of them and now you want to propagate the change to the other. That's when DT needs to ask you. What precisely would be your question? -- https://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]
