Thanks, Patrick, but I am already writing the xmps. What I meant was dt crashes. This was the first time in a long time, but I hadn't closed it for days, and all the importing I had done was lost. Lost in the sense that I had to import each folder again, and then close dt so the importing would stay in the database. I don't understand that dt doesn't write to the database upon import. After a crash, when I open dt it displays the contents of the folder that was open the last time I closed dt. All other importing history is lost.
On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 3:38 PM Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]> wrote: > * Bill Martz <[email protected]> [08-08-20 14:17]: > > Windows 10, dt 3.0.2 and V4 dev. version > > > > Crashes have been nonexistent more recently, and I have gotten out of the > > habit of closing dt after importing folders/files. Earlier today dt V4 > dev > > crashed, and the importing history covering several folders was lost. Is > > there some way to get this information written into the database without > > having to close dt? > > turn on "write sidecar file for each image" > config -> storage -> xmp > > sidecar files will be written as photos are imported. If you have a > crash, ensuing imports will read the sidecar files which contain your > image history/tags/... > > not running windows but cannot remember the last time I had a crash. > > -- > (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri > http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri > Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > [email protected] > > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
