On 1 April 2013 13:37, Per H. Lundbech <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
Ok, thanks for the clarification that the data is stored in the .xmp,
that's great. I keep picture libraries (only) backed up on external drives,
and the xmp:s goes along there.
I also ~backup ~/.*, but not so frequently. It's not disastrous (to me) to
loose my home folder in that sense, just annoying.
Aftershot Pro, which I'm now looking into abandon in favour of Darktable
(if DT suits me, we'll see), keeps the database(s) elsewhere. I wanted to
make sure the concepts between xmp and databases were the same for the two
programs.
Thanks everyone for the help, this ML is sure more alive than ASP! ;)
- Christian
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