Complete newbie to darktable here. I have waited for 3.2 to begin my darktable experience but have immediately run into problems.
I have installed Darktable 3.2.1 on Windows 10 64-bit using the installer from darktable.org/install. Fast i7 processor, fast GPU, 64GB RAM, lots of storage space. When I first ran it using all defaults and imported some images all looked and worked fine. However, I want to keep my images on external, removable storage and I want to keep the darktable library there also so the library on the external volume holds all the edits for the images on that volume. This way I can move the external storage between 3 different computers and always have the latest edits available. To test this on my main computer I put images on the external volume N:\2020 in folders by month and day. I created an empty folder named N:\darktable which is where I want the library to go. I then created this command script: @echo off cd /d "%~dp0" start "darktable for %~dp0" darktable --library %~dp0darktable\library.db When I run it darktable starts I see N:\>startdt N:\>cd /d "N:\" N:\>start "darktable for N:\" darktable --library N:\darktable\library.db which looks exactly the way it should. The N:\darktable folder now contains N:\>dir n:\darktable Volume in drive N is P-2020-3A Volume Serial Number is D4E5-96D2 Directory of n:\darktable 08/11/2020 02:00 PM <DIR> . 08/11/2020 02:00 PM <DIR> .. 08/11/2020 02:00 PM 0 library.db 08/11/2020 02:00 PM 0 library.db-pre-3.2.1 08/11/2020 02:00 PM 6 library.db.lock 3 File(s) 6 bytes 2 Dir(s) 53,829,632,000 bytes free which is also exactly what I expected. At this point darktable is running and using the library on N:\darktable but using all other defaults (for data.db and darktablerc). I can import the same image files as before but now the problem: When in lighttable, clicking on any star, or X to reject an image, I see the message popup that says the operation is being done but there is no indication in the UI that it has. All stars remain hollow. The X remains plain (unchecked). These operations worked fine when I started darktable with all defaults. In fact, I can re-start darktable using all defaults and it will again function correctly. So the question is, what else do I need to do when starting darktable from my script to get it to behave when using the library on external media? ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
