Am Dienstag, 17. September 2013, 18:40:12 schrieb Patrick Shanahan: > * Pascal Obry <[email protected]> [09-17-13 17:33]: > > Le 17/09/2013 23:22, Paulo C. Santos Garcia a écrit : > > > After upgrading to dt 1.2.3, from Pascal PPA, I noticed that the > > > dialogue box to import from camera, in the settings tab, misses the > > > option to delete after importing the files. > > > > > > Without this option, I have to perform the additional task of delete the > > > imported images from the memory card. Before it was all done after > > > import. > > > > > > Is there any particular reason for this or is just something I'm not > > > seeing correctly? > > > > Yes, safety. It is not recommended to delete the images from the > > camera/card just after importing. If the hard drive crash? My work-flow > > (and the one I recommend) is to import, store the card somewhere, use > > another card if possible. When the time arrive to re-use the card just > > format it from the camera. At this stage the image are probably already > > stored into a safer place than the computer hard drive. > > While your intention is honorable and respected, you are taking choice > away from the user. There is such a thing as doing too much in limiting > user control. If I delete images by mistake, it is *my* mistake and *my* > choice even thou a poor choice. If you believe it necessary to protect me > from myself, at least give me the option to "live on the edge" and make my > own choice, ie: make it a toogle or configuration.
Let me try to put an end to this discussion by telling you the reason why we removed the feature. In general it worked as intended and people were happy. Some might have deleted their images accidentally, but that wasn't our concern. As you said, users make dumb things and it's not up to us to protect them from free choices. However, there were occasions where files were not copied over correctly (full hard disk, gphoto2 problems, flaky usb connection, you name it) and darktable didn't recognize that and subsequently deleted the original files. A few people could restore them, others didn't notice until it was too late. Since adding safety nets to find out that the copy process wasn't successful is more work than we are willing to invest we decided to leave this part to dedicated tools like this rapid-forgotthename thing. If you really want that feature back (and promise not to complain if anything goes wrong) there should be the compile option "-DUSE_CAMERA_IMPORT=On" for cmake. I don't know if that is still available, but it should. I hope I made some things clear. It wasn't about taking choice away from the users but to protect them from unmaintained and possibly dangerous code. Tobias [...]
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