Hi Mark,
Can't you mount the FAT32 partition such that the path is the same as before
with the NTFS partition? darktable only checks for the path...
Cheers
Simon
Am 18. Dezember 2014 16:03:54 MEZ, schrieb Mark Patey <[email protected]>:
>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!
>
>Thanks again for any insight you may have.
>
>-Mark
>
>
>Message: 4
>Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:13:49 +0100
>From: Markus Jung <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Darktable-users] I might have wiped out hours of work...
>To: [email protected]
>Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
>
>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.
>
>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.
>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
>>
>>
>>
>
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