OK, just made an interesting discovery which might give somebody an idea of what's going on. Hint: I still don't have a clue! I've installed 2 versions from github. The afore-mentioned 3.4 build in opt/darktable/3.4 AND a build of 3.5 installed in opt/darktable/master I have 2 bash scripts (big thanks to CodingDave for the assistance there!) which I use for launching. The first looks like so:
#!/bin/bash /opt/darktable-3.4/bin/darktable --library ~/.cache/darktable/3.4/darktable_3.4.db --configdir ~/.cache/darktable/3.4/ And the master version looks like this: #!/bin/bash /opt/darktable/master/bin/darktable --library ~/.cache/darktable/master/darktable_master.db --configdir ~/.cache/darktable/master/ Now, I THOUGHT that by putting the library and config files into separate directories, I would be free of any conflicts. But I've just noticed that Collections I was saving in 3.4 are showing up in my copy of 3.5 as well. So somewhere, a directory or a file is being shared. Can anyone help me out with what I've missed here? Many thanks (in advance). Cheers, Bruce Williams ------------------------------ Mobile: +61 41 250 6349 brucewilliamsphotography.com shuttersincpodcast.com e-mail <stu...@audio2u.com> | Twitter <http://twitter.com/@audio2u> | LinkedIn <http://au.linkedin.com/pub/bruce-williams/1/318/489> | Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/audio2u> | Soundcloud <http://www.soundcloud.com/audio2u> | Quora <https://www.quora.com/profile/Bruce-Williams-5> ------------------------------ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Bruce Williams <stu...@audio2u.com> Date: Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 1:33 PM Subject: Fwd: [darktable-user] Where are Collections stored? To: darktable-user <darktable-user@lists.darktable.org> Anton, No, I meant the collections that you create and save through the "collect images" module. I create collections based on shoot date (mostly) so I can quickly get back to a certain batch of images. Cheers, Bruce Williams. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Anton Aylward <li...@antonaylward.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021, 13:30 Subject: Re: [darktable-user] Where are Collections stored? To: <darktable-user@lists.darktable.org> On 16/01/2021 01:01, Bruce Williams wrote: > Hi all! > I THOUGHT I'd found a limit to the number of Collections that could be saved. > But it looks more and more like wherever my Collections are stored, darktable can > no longer write/execute on that location, as not only can I not store any NEW > Collection, I can't delete an existing one either. > I'm on Linux MInt 20 and dt 3.4.0+88~g0e4ecc1fa-dirty. > I have library, keyboardrc and .db files located in .cache in my user filesystem area. Yes, that's where the database and the 'more intimate' Darktable files are, ~/.config/darktable But what do you mean by "Collections"? Do you mean the image files? Those are kept on disk where ever you've chosen to keep them. I keep all of mine under ~/MyPhotographs/ The unclassified I organise by date (year, month) with each year on a separate XFS filesystem, the file systems being managed by LVM. Why XFS? Why LVM? So I can grow it later if needed. The "Classified" are according to the reason for classification - event, location, project... The point is that there is always file space to grow into, space were the images can be saved. Trust me: disks are cheap. SSD is getting cheaper, but I'd use it for things like need more rapid access like the root file system. As long as my chassis and motherboard can handle it I can keep adding 'bulk storage'. If all fails I can add a NFS server for the purely 'data' storage, and the image files+sidebars fall into that category. So: what do you mean by 'Collections'? /a ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
