Jose,
I don't plan to have Darktable running from both machines at the same time.
But even if I did, it would not be on the same film roll.
But what you've said to me is interesting: How do I do the move of the
files from within Darktable?
John P Santos
Digital Media Consultant
*Green Bee Media*
greenbeemedia.com
facebook.com/greenbeemedia.ca
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On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
<jcs...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>
> --
> José Carlos García Sogo
> jcs...@gmail.com
>
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