Yeah, it is a work-around, so thanks.
But if it easier/less work flow steps to bypass an essential step in
post processing, why did the DT developers bother adding this
functionality? Wouldn't have the investment of time/effort be better
used by making the strange, indeed unique, behaviour of the 'zoomable
light table' much more in line with human factors best practice? This
one feature gives me a sense of vertigo just trying to understand the
overlapping functions of mouse wheel scrolling, scroll bar scrolling,
sizing etc. It just seems completely wrong.
Sorry, I've gone off on a tandem, here. Anyway my preferred choice of
import utility - Rapid File Downloader doesn't appear to be available
under Windows and other factors (called iMatch) prevent me from getting
my preferred 'set-up' in Linux
On 23/06/2020 12:43, Graham Byrnes wrote:
It's true that the notion of "home" is kind of foreign to a Windows
machine... it exists, but it's user specific and I can't remember it.
However:
"This is completely different to my expectation: that the import from
an SD card would place a COPY of the image somewhere on my harddrive"
So why not just do that? Copy the subfolders of your DCIM, which
usually encode the date, and paste them into your "images" folder,
which is visible in File Explorer. You can copy or move, according to
left or right click. Then import that folder into dt.
I've never bothered with the card-reading facility, it's just one
extra thing to worry about.
Cheers,
Graham
Le mar. 23 juin 2020 à 13:13, tony Hamilton <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit :
On the basis that the purpose of this mailing list is described as
"...for all concerns of a darktable user: usage questions,
experience reports ..."I would like some help understanding import.
I'm failing at the first step: setting the correct parameters in
the session options in preferences. The issue here is that my
'Pictures' folder is not where DT assumes it to be - somewhere
relative to my $Home folder (more comment on that later). My
pictures folder is on an E: drive because my C-drive is a small
SSD which is about 50% of the size of the Pictures folder. (I
wanted to move 'appdata' off the c-drive too, to avoid so many I/O
ops on the SSD but haven't been able to do that). I need advice on
how to correctly set the session options for my configuration.
Having read section 8.3 (session options) in the DT user manual I
realise that I don't know what 'the home folder as defined by the
system' means. In fact this whole section is written by an IT
expert for an IT expert, not for an enthusiast home photographer
who is (now) far, far from being an IT expert. And an IT expert
doesn't need this sort of information anyway - so who is the
target audience for this manual?
What I have discovered, by pressing the 'folder' button in import,
is a window labelled 'import film' ..wait!, what ? Ignoring this
confusion I notice an entry in the last of places in this window
which says 'Home' and sure enough it takes me to
C:\Users\<myuserid>\ - where no Pictures folder exists. So how can
DT import images to the default location
$(PICTURES_FOLDER}\Darktable ? And, indeed I find no 'Darktable'
folder within my E:\Pictures folder after an import attempt.
What is one supposed to do with the symbolic addresses, like
'$(HOME)' and '$(PICTURES_FOLDER)' ? Should I replace them with
actual addresses, like 'E:\Pictures', as Bruce Williams suggests
in his videos? That doesn't seem to work either.
How do I find out what 'the home folder as defined by the system'
means ?
What doesn't work even more, to my expectation, than the above is
my attempt to import from the SD card taken from my camera: I end
up with a collection which points to an F: drive - the drive
letter that is assigned when a card reader is attached to my
system. Naturally then once the card is returned to the camera,
attempts to edit the imported images fail with an error message
telling me that the image is not available. This is completely
different to my expectation: that the import from an SD card would
place a COPY of the image somewhere on my harddrive and allow me
to carry on using the card in the camera. Why does it not do this
in my system?
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