Hi, I am trying to fit my workflow to me personal needs. I have for desired workpattern:
A) I use a weak laptop to import fotos, to sort them, tag them, rate them in the livingroom. B) I go downstairs using a powerful PC with better display to work with DT RAW modules or Gimp C) I am offsite, somewhere far away and cannot await to work with newly taken raws... I task A and start B with bad performance on a laptop. Later I import the results together with untouched pics to central archive and maybe start A and B again. D) I create local copies on the laptop of old raws and take them with me. work qwith them maybe together with workflow C's new pictures.. Later I update the sidecars and home-DB be importing again. A and B are done: To be able to work with a Laptop and PC on same data I decided to put pics and DB to a SAMBA share an a fast fileserver in my house. I mount the filesystem with the current machine, all changes are in the NAS, DB is fine... If I unmount and boot other machine it will find same DB, same raws, same paths... C and D are tricky... having DB on a disconnected network, darktable is not starting because the mountpoint folder /mnt/fotos is owned by root =< readonly. no DB can be created, it crashes.. Even if I would create a local DB, discard it after a while and would import the raws + sidecars at home again.... how to deal with local copies? I cannot believe that I am the only one in the world with the purpose to use a laptop offline and being in sync with a local workstation with access to an advanced storage solution to get a centralized backup. A professional takes pics of employees somewhere, shows first results to customer, plays around in train with files to use the time. Arrives at home, rates in the garden and later after kids are in bed he is using workstation to finish the job... Lightroom (what I used before) was unflexible as well but at least it was supporting a DB per filmrole and did not insist that each folder is a separat filmrole... in exchange it rejected network based DBs and was slow. Any ideas? Using sidecars as info provider is possible but really slow... I would need a DB sync of a local and central one... Currently I only can think about using DT in a separate offline account and copy sidecars arround..... Regards Marc ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
