Hi Bernhard, that will definitely come in handy at some time. Thanks for that Anyhow for my current case it doesn't solve the problem. By disk I really meant different / multiple physical disks. I don't want to connect all the disks when working with darktable (this would also include talking all the disks with me as I'm working at different locations). Yes I could upgrade to a single bigger disk but that would be kind of pricey (next step would be the 8TB level) and kind of wasteful. So even if I update the paths (which I'll do, thanks again for the info) there will be times when not all original image files are available to darktable. I can live with the missing thumbnail but I find it kind of sad as the thumbnail would actually be available.
Best Regards Thomas On 02.04.21 19:51, Bernhard wrote:
[email protected] 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 ...
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