On 12/04/2021 06:10, Terry Pinfold wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> my understanding of RAW files is that you can never overwrite your
> RAW files so they do not need read only permissions.
Hi Terry
Sure, not from darktable. But with any other tool, I can change them.
First thing that comes to my mind is of course exiv2/exiftool (and I
admit, sometimes I modify time stamps in my raw files, if e.g the camera
clock was wrong -- yes, I know, not recommended...)
But any other tool from emacs, vi, to ed or cat _can_ be used to modify
the file, if you want to. Any file (in Unix, and also other systems like
MS-DOS) is just a stream of bytes. (Although not in all OSes, but no one
here would be using them, including me ;-)
So setting the raw files to read-only is a good idea, I think I'll add
that to my import workflow.
Best regards,
Michael
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Michael Staats
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