werzi2...@gmx.de schrieb am 02.04.21 um 14:26:
Hello,
as my image collection slowly but surely gets to big for a single hard
disk I thought about having multiple disks. One for the darktable
library (including cache and config) plus the most recent images and
one (or more) other disks for older stuff. To check how darktable
deals with that I copied the library to another disk with no images at
all and opened it from there (with adapted paths to cache and config).
As expected the images are shown in the collection but I cannot open
any of them ("... not available"). Strangely also the thumbnail is not
shown but instead only a skull icon. I thought that the thumbnails
would still be shown as they are stored in the cache directory that is
still available. Is it the expected behaviour that all thumbnails "are
gone" or am I missing something?
Hi Thomas,
not answering your question directly - but related to what you want to
achieve:
My suggestion:
Keep the library on your machine and move the top level folder with what
you call "older stuff" to some other drive using your file manager.
Then read this one:
https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/en/module-reference/utility-modules/shared/collect-images/#updating-the-folder-path-of-moved-images
darktable will then update the library and everything should be fine
thereafter ...
--
regards
Bernhard
https://www.bilddateien.de
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