* Tobias Ellinghaus <[email protected]> [09-18-13 07:40]: > 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. [...] > > 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. "A good reason!"(TM!) I transfer my photos via a card reader and direct file access using mc, add gps data using gpsPhoto via a script, change the file date to the "creation date", and rename the files the their date and camera generated file name via a script. I use exiv2 instead of exiftool merely for the speed difference. I use darktable to process my photos, not as a file manager. Thankyou for providing me this wonderful tool. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
