On 29 November 2014 at 15:06, johannes hanika <[email protected]> wrote:
> your data is in xmp as a backup and to allow transferring it along with
> the file easily. the database is our primary source of data, and used for
> fast access (the collect module allows you to do fancy things based on
> metadata, which would be atrociously slow if we would need to open all the
> xmp for this).
>
> you can sync the xmp data on startup with a crawler thread (which you can
> enable in your preferences), in case you're doing crazy things to your xmp
> outside dt (load with other application, use sed, etc).
>
If so this make it a better idea to change the database? Will darktable
rewrite the XMP files from the database? It would be very simple to change
metadata across a large number of files with SQL.
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