On 04/01/2013 01:22 PM, Ulrich Pegelow wrote:
> Am 01.04.2013 13:19, schrieb Alexander Wagner:
>> On 04/01/2013 12:17 PM, Simon Spannagel wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>>> yes, the file you mentioned is the darktable library. However, no
>>> information is lost even if you delete this library since all image
>>> processing specific information and tags are redundantly written in the
>>> XMP files along with every image file. You just have to reimport them
>>> into darktable.
>> Still, you'd loose your presets, styles, vocabulary (aka tags) and
>> whatnot gets stored to the db.
>>
>> You might specify the librarys path on the command line.
>>
>> cf. darktable --help
>>
>> to the options available.
>>
>> But it seems advisable to backup .* anyway along with everything in you
>> $HOME (this is Unix ;)
> Absolutely! It's a huge misconception to assume that stuff in .* 
> files/directories is not important. More or less all your personal 
> configuration settings are stored there. Depending on your mail client 
> even your mailbox is kept in a there too (.thunderbird).

That's of cause correct. :)

Unfortunately on a system like mine, years old, I have kept a backup of
all (well most ;) ) .* directories and that has grown to 30+GB of data.
Not all of absolutely vital importance! It also includes all software
installed under WINE and Ubuntu/Gnomes thumbnails of every image  on my
system.

It would be nice with an option as to where to store it. Especially as
the styles/presets are stores there also.


>
> Ulrich
>
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