One alternative, if you decide you really don't want to use DT to do the moving, would be to simply create a soft link with the name of the old image directory, pointing to the new one. This might be a good or bad idea depending on your system configuration/usage. Another possibility, if the external drive is going to be used *only* for your image library, would be to simply make the old image directory the mount point for the drive. Of course, both of these options assume you were not going to be leaving any files in the old location, but rather moving all of them.
On 2013-08-02 [email protected] wrote: > Hi. > > I want to offload part of my library to an external hard drive. I'm talking > about thousands of images and GB of data. > > As far as i can see it i have two choices: use DT's move feature or move > the files externally. I feel reluctant using DT's move feature on such a > huge amount of data. If i move the files using a file manager they will > appear as unavailable in DT but will still be in the old location. How do i > tell DT that they are in a new place? > > What's the recommended method for doing this? > > Thanks in advance. > > Gonçalo Marrafa ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
