Patrick, and all others who responded to my questions here, thank you!
On my Ubuntu machine, I removed the images from the collection. Then on the
work Mac, I used darktable to copy the images with their edits to a new
location on a Mac-writable partition (FAT32). I have now brought the drive
home and re-imported the images, and everything comes up intact!
As far as I can tell (with a cursory glance at this point), there isn't
anything missing. I will search the list archive to find what sort of data
the .xmp files may be missing.
I do have one more question about this. If it turns out the xmp files are
missing certain elements and I'd rather not re-do them all manually, would
it work to simply replace library.db with the one from the Mac? I realize
that would wipe out everything else I've ever stored in my home
installation of darktable. But in theory, would that actually work, or are
the database files very specific to a given installation or machine?
-Mark
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*Message: 1Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:13:54 -0500From: Patrick Shanahan
<[email protected] <[email protected]>>Subject: Re: [Darktable-users] I
might have wiped out hours of
work...To: [email protected]
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<[email protected]>>Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=us-ascii* Mark Patey <[email protected] <[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
thennot have "those" photos at that location in it's database. Use
darktablein lighttable mode to move or copy the photos to the new location
and thenwrite the xmp files. This way you are certain than the xmp files
containall/same information as before.Remember that the xmp files do not
contain *all* of the information aboutthe photos that exists in the
database, discussed on the list recently.--(paka)Patrick Shanahan
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