Am Samstag, 8. Dezember 2012, 14:21:11 schrub Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo: > El sábado, 8 de diciembre de 2012, Rainer Poisel escribió: > > Hej, > > > > I have just started using darktable to manage my digital photos. So > > far I can say that I really like the concepts of this application. > > When starting to use new software I always think about how to backup > > my data just in case everything goes wrong or in case I have to move > > to another computer. > > > > Regarding this topic I have hit paydirt in the mailing list: > > * http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29291108 > > > > I can confirm that it is as easy as that - just to keep the xmp files > > (sidecars) and re-import the folder in case one wants to continue > > editing a folder of images on another computer with keeping the > > editing history intact. In this regard: what data does the > > sqlite-database contain? Actually everything I need is in the > > xmp-files. :-) > > Basically you will lose your presets and your styles, as they are only > stored in the db. And of course the thumbnails, but those will be > regenerated on the fly. The other thing you may lose if you don't backup > the config file are the general configurations of the program.
Getting rid of the database also removes all tags. While they are in the XMP files you will only get those into the lists in lighttable view for the images you re-imported. So tagging new images might be a little harder since auto complete will miss some entries you previously used. [...]
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