Am 14.12.2014 um 10:13 schrieb Markus Jung: > Hello Mark, > > first things first: If you still have the database on your Mac and did > not remove your images from it, nothing is lost. > > The XMP files are supposed to be only a backup of the internal database. > Until darktable 1.6, the sidecars had to be loaded manually if something > changed, dt itself did not detect any changes but simply overwrite them > after opening the image in darkroom. > > Since dt 1.6, there is an option "Scan for changed XMP files on > startup", which would have avoided your problems. >
Make sure *not* to activate this option *before* you reconstruct your work as described below! Else you may kill your last copy of your edits in the database on your Mac Pro. This option is something you should use in future. > Now the solution (assuming you are still using dt < 1.6): > 1. > Delete all images from your darktable library at home. Be sure to use > the delete mode which only removes images from the database and not from > disk. The "remove" button is what you want. It removes the images from the database without phyically deleting any file. The "delete" option would physically eliminate your images. > 2. > Take your disk back to work, fire up darktable there, select all > affected images and tell darktable to re-write the sidecar files. (there > is a lighttable module with buttons to read and write sidecars). Please > be sure to hit the right button, the other one will read the sidecars > from disk and finally destroy your work! > 3. > At home, re-import the images. darktable will read/import the sidecards > along with the images and you are set. > > Remark: Maybe re-importing alone is sufficient, but i am not absolutely > sure and since the overhead is small, i would go for the safe route. > > Regards, > Markus > > Am 14.12.2014 um 03:33 schrieb Mark Patey: >> 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 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
