Ciao Peter, I am not sure I have CLEARLY understood your questions... First of all please note Linux can read/write a LOT of filesystems so you could consider one readable/writable from both OSs in the case you will decide to revert back to MacOS
Now regarding sidecar files. dt organizes all information in its database. THEN writes the same info in an XMP files. You can consider the XMP files like a backup copy you can use in the case the internal database will be corrupted or if you desire to pass data to another software. On a new darktable installation you simply need to overwrite the dt database (that will be empty) with your one. dt uses SQLite so you have only to copy/paste a couple of text files. Very easy. Alternatively you can switch on the option 'Look for updated XMP files on startup'. In this case dt will check if the information on the XMP files are NEWER than those in the internal database and - in this case - will update the database. This could be a time consuming operation because this check will be done on EACH opened image. Maurizio Il giorno gio 6 ago 2020 alle ore 09:37 Peter Schlaufer <[email protected]> ha scritto: > Dear All > > I am with dt since half a year after more than 10 years with LR and I have > to say, that after an initial hard time I find it now better for me. I am > a frequent reader to this blog and these mails. With this I became more > interested with Linux. I am now on MacOs and working with dt is going very > smoothly. However my temptation for Linux grew bigger, I therefore built on > my Macbook Air an Ubuntu Application on which I as doing my first steps and > I find it even better and am tempted to change to Linux for good. I have my > pictures (apprx 25’000)on an external SSD drive and they are now all > organised in darktable and as a big work I have reworked all the tags of > these photos, which have been growing in these 15 years to a giant mess and > this was a big work which I could do during the lockdown time. The SSD > drive is MacOs journaled formatted > > For this I have some questions: When I now would change to Linux I would > have to reformat the SSD drive to fat32 that it can be read and written in > Linux. After an import to a Linux darktable-application would then only the > the xmp data which were created by dt seen or would the „old“ xmp data, > especially all the tags, of LR times reappear and so be destroying all the > lot of work, which would make me reconsider a possible change. > > > regards > Peter Schlaufer > Landenbergstrasse 19 > CH-6005 Luzern > [email protected] > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
