* Mark Patey <[email protected]> [12-18-14 10:05]: > Thanks, everyone, for the input on this! I'm so glad all is not lost. I've > removed the images from my darktable library at home, and deleted the blank > .xmp files. I am now at work on the Mac, and everything appears as it did, > so my edits are safe, at least on the Mac. > > I just backed up the Mac's .../.config/darktable folder (and finding hidden > folders on a Mac is an interesting task in itself!) so those files are safe. > > However, I've opened darktable and told it to re-write the sidecar files, > and nothing is being written. The photos are stored on an NTFS partition > (silly move on my part, I know), and as it turns out, the Mac still doesn't > natively write to NTFS. > > My external drive also has a FAT32 partition and an XFS one as well... I > could copy my photos to that partition and re-open them in dt, but I don't > think dt would re-link their history stacks because they'd be in a new > location. > > Is there some way (without the ability to write sidecar files) I can copy > the files to a new location and get darktable to associate the database > info from the original location? If not, I will see about installing NTFS > write support. And then I will backup the NTFS partition onto the FAT32 > one, and get rid of it!
Do no merely "copy" the photos to another location as darktable will then not have "those" photos at that location in it's database. Use darktable in lighttable mode to move or copy the photos to the new location and then write the xmp files. This way you are certain than the xmp files contain all/same information as before. Remember that the xmp files do not contain *all* of the information about the photos that exists in the database, discussed on the list recently. -- (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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
