The difficult thing here is if you plan to edit files in the working folder
from the laptop and the desktop at the same time, running a sync job in the
background. If this is the case, there is no easy way to solve this in
darktable currently, and even there is no easy way to solve it at all
automatically. What you should do is just remove the film roll for the
working folder and reimport it before starting to work in the laptop or the
workstation.
When you move the files to the archive folder you can do that from within
darktable. That will serve in one of the computers, but in the other you
will also have to reimport the archive folder to see the new files.
El domingo, 28 de abril de 2013, John P Santos escribió:
> Hi all,
>
> I am thinking about changing the way I manage my pictures. I do photo
> editing on both my laptop and my desktop, both running Ubuntu. My desktop
> system is running Ubuntu LTS 12.04, and when my laptop hard drive crashed I
> decided I would try Ubuntu 12.10.
>
> Anyway, the laptop crash was a great data loss for me, but not a total
> one. I had been backing up all the data files I work with on a regular
> basis, but it depended on me actually running an rsync command which would
> back-up all the files onto the desktop/server system.
>
> The data loss happened in a particularly bad way this time, I had spent
> the day doing graphic art and I neglected to backup the photos & art from
> the weekend, and then in the evening before I was done my day, before I ran
> my backup, the laptop got slight knock and the drive died. 100% data loss.
>
> How does this relate to my question on Libraries? Well I am looking at
> different solutions for how to sync my files now that are automated, and in
> real time. As soon as I get home my laptop will automatically connect and
> synchronize my folders. But because the laptop has much less storage than
> my desktop, it will always only ever contain a subset of the pictures I may
> be working on at any given time.
>
> So my solution requires that I setup a "Working Directory" for my pictures
> that will be shared between machines as well as a "Archive Directory" for a
> complete set of my photos to be on the desktop. The desktop also has 3
> full backups of the photos on several hard disks for the sake of redundancy.
>
> What I'd like to do know is, if I begin to use the "Working" and the
> "Archive" folder method is it possible to tell Darktable where the files
> have moved to after I make the move? Or is this something I'm going to
> have to manage by running two library.db files, and then removing all the
> pictures from one film roll and then adding it again to the "Archive"
> library.db.
>
> Is it possible for me to update the library.db with a script to make sure
> those files are found the next time I open DT?
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> John P Santos
> Digital Media Consultant
> *Green Bee Media*
> greenbeemedia.com
> facebook.com/greenbeemedia.ca
> twitter.com/greenbeemedia
>
>
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