On 13/11/13 11:19, Paul Greindl wrote: > I'm running Darktable on two machines editing the same picture stack. > Currently I'm only syncing the sidecar files and not the database. Now I > wonder what is stored in the database and what problems I could face if > I don't sync the DB as well? Or is all important information in the xml > file?
The main issue I've had with doing much the same thing is that the image settings in the database are used in preference to those in the XMP sidecar files. This means that for images where you've made adjustments on both machines you won't see the changes that you did on the other machine, even if they're newer. To work around this when moving from one machine to another where I want to continue work on a particular collection, on the destination machine I normally remove all images from the collection I'm working on and reimport them; this refreshes all image settings in the database from the XMP sidecar files. It works, though I've been told that I'm uncouth and/or insane for doing it this way. Of course, anything that's stored only in the database (like styles) won't be shared between machines, either. I understand that syncing the database is the considered the kosher approach. Cheers, Rob. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
