Am Samstag, 5. Januar 2013, 17:53:26 schrub Lars Wirzenius:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 11:14:00AM +0100, Federico Bruni wrote:
> > Well, yes, mostly because it's not up to date.
> > But I agree - since it's a common problem for new users - that a warning
> > saying that moving/renaming files outside of darktable will break the
> > database could be useful.
> 
> Does Darktable have a way to find ("reconnect") photos on new locations
> of disks, based on checksum and/or metadata? For example, suppose I have
> all my photos in $HOME/Foton, and they're all indexed by Darktable, and
> everything is fine, until I replace my computer, and my username on the
> other computer is different. Or I have my photos on a USB drive, and
> move them to a new, bigger drive, with a different name, and therefore
> a different mount point.
> 
> So a feature like "go look for all missing photographs on the disk,
> starting at location FOO", which would recognize a moved and/or renamed
> photograph based on the RAW file's SHA-1 (or SHA-3) checksum. Does that
> exist?
> 
> (Sorry if this is a naive question. I'm still bending my head around
> Darktable, and haven't started using it for real yet.)

The development version (not sure about 1.1) include the folder mode of the 
collect module which allows you to specify a new location for a filmroll. 
That's probably the fastest when you changed the location for the whole tree. 
When it's just a few files a manual reimport will be the way to go.

Tobias

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