On 2015-Nov-16, Patrick Shanahan wrote with possible deletions: > * darkta...@911networks.com <darkta...@911networks.com> [11-16-15 13:19]: > > DT 1.6.9. > > > > Sorry but I don't understand the difference between a film roll and a > > folder. > > A "film roll" is a *collection* of images whereas a folder is a directory, > a storage structure.
This is not correct. According to the DT Manual, a collection is what you see in the middle area of the Lighttable. The properties of the collection (i.e., which images are chosen) is determined by the "collect images" thing on the left side of Lighttable. By default, the collection is based on the "film roll" attribute. An image has this attribute assigned when importing, and it is nothing but the path it resides in. If you think in databas terms, it is what an SQL SELECT statement would return for a query defined through "collect images" — not to be confused with a selection you make by clicking with the mouse on an image. Unfortunately, "film roll" is just a new name for path, or folder, or directory (not that we did not have a few to choose from), confusing people. Also there's a "selected images > remove (remove from collection)" button on the right side of Lighttable, which however does not just exclude the image from the curren selection as it says, but also seems to purge it from the database. Yes, I'm not happy with this, but I did not invent it. To add images to a film roll, put it into the respective directory, and reimpor that directory, or explicitly import that image. > > What happens to the film roll when I keep adding images to the folder > > and import "folder"? > > When you "import", you assign a "film roll". If you import a "folder", > you import all target files withing that folder. If you later add to that > "folder", your film roll is not affected. Exactly, because DT won't notice. > A "film roll" may contain images from many or only one "folder", Many different folders? I doubt that. Could you tell the steps how to achieve this? Greetings Stefan -- http://stefan-klinger.de o/X Send plain text messages only, not exceeding 32kB. /\/ \ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
