Hi Viktor,
Q1) All you need to do is to copy the raw images onto your NAS (I use a
ReadyNAS for this purpose myself by the way) using whatever folder structure
you want to hold the images. Then just tell darktable to recursively import
that folder structure. Before you import that folder structure into dt you
can change it round with frag and drop or scripts however you want but once
imported into dt you shouldn’t change the physical location of images outside
the dt application.
Q2+3) I’ll keep quiet and not give bad advice as I don’t do any of this local
cache stuff myself.
Q4) AFP is some Apple proprietary alternative to CIFS or NFS? If so as long as
your NAS and laptop are happy with the file protocol you should be fine.
Darktable doesn’t have any interest in the type of network transport you
choose.
Rgds,
Rob.
From: Viktor Hedefalk [mailto:hedef...@gmail.com]
Sent: 19 March 2015 13:18
To: darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Darktable-users] Help with workflow using NAS and old Aperture library
Hi,
I have finally sat down and started to look into how I can manage my photos. I
have previously used Aperture, but actually started to look for a replacement
before they announced that they would drop it since they never supported any
decent way of storing in NAS. I think Lightroom started to support some NAS way
of doing things but I would really like to go FOSS when it comes to this. I
basically can't dare to spend so much time learning a tool without knowing…
I have "searched the internets" for a while now and made up my mind that
darktable looks like the way to go. The "cache locally" seems to be just the
thing I want since I will mostly work on a MBP that couldn't possible fit all
my images.
I just bought a ReadyNAS 104 with RAID1 and set up a share for my photos. I'm
currently rsyncing up one of my Aperture libraries (I have two since both MBP
and Mac Pro and there never was any good way of sharing)
My biggest concern is actually in the photo "management" side of things. I'm
not a power user when it comes to image development, but I think I put "power
demands" on image management.
I want to be able to browse around my entire collection which is already above
1 TB and tag, rate and stuff like that, but I'm fine with only working with
developing the ones I have cached locally. I'll try to put down my concerns:
1) How do I import my current library in a good way into darktable? I was about
to try to import recursively the entire Aperture library masters which is
basically foldered like yyyy/mm/dd, but now read that that was really a bad
idea. Is it possible to script importing each "day" one by one? It's really not
feasible for me to import each folder separately by hand.
2) Will I be able to look around my library when disconnected from the NAS? Is
only thumbnails stored locally or also a little bigger jpegs?
3) What is a reasonable workflow for importing images later on from my camera?
I mean, I really want to do as little work as possible. Say I'm travelling and
need to import the RAW files to my local MBP drive to work on them. When I
later come home I want to place the RAWS on the NAS. Do I then loose the edits
I made and have to re-import in darktable?
4) I'm probably gonna use AFP, is that ok?
Thanks a lot,
Viktor
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