Hi, all-
Longtime dt user, but it's been a while since I've had to post here! A very
good sign.
I have darktable installed at home on my Ubuntu laptop (slow-ish, not a
great screen), and have recently installed it on a Mac Pro workstation at
work as well, where it works very nicely (and I have a much better monitor
to work with). Yesterday I knew I'd have some downtime at work, and edited
a bunch of photos I shot recently of a friend's wedding. The photos are on
a portable external hard drive, and I simply brought the drive to work with
me and edited them in darktable there, directly on the external drive (not
copying to the local drive, so I could easily bring my edits home with me).
Tonight I attached the external drive to my Ubuntu laptop to continue
working on the photos. They had all been opened on this laptop before, so
there was a "collection" for them already... and when I opened darktable,
that collection came up by default. But none of my edits from work were
there. Photos that I know had 10-15 steps of editing were just showing the
3 basic default steps.
I tried re-importing, thinking dt was using a cached version of the .xmp
files or something. It then occurred to me that I'd better close darktable
immediately, thinking the longer it was open, the more likely it would
overwrite all the .xmp files created on the Mac! Of course, it had already
done that, I assume when I first opened the collection.
When I look at the contents of the folder, indeed all the .xmp files are
created just a few minutes ago... with not a single one left from all the
work I did yesterday.
Is there anything at all I can do at this point? I know dt uses a database
in addition to the .xmp files... any chance the database files from the Mac
installation could be copied to my Ubuntu install and bring back all my
edits?
This portable drive setup seemed like it should work nicely, with both
installations simply reading the .xmp files unless edits were made... I did
not foresee dt erasing them all by default.
Thanks in advance for any light you can shed.
-Mark
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