Hi, that is interesting ... but isn't DT trusting its DB first and and second the xmp? DB needs to be copied as well otherwise you wouldn't see a change after being back.
Marc 2016-05-20 10:45 GMT+02:00 Christian Mandel <c.man...@gmx.net>: > Am 20.05.2016 um 10:23 schrieb Dr. Marc Arnold Bach: > >> 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... >> > > Darktable has limited support for editing “detached” files. However, the > complex workflow that you describe may require a system that can resemble > this work flow. I suggest to have a look at > http://git-annex.branchable.com/. Of course this is an xmp-based > workflow, but I would guess you have no other option. With git-annex, you > could have your sidecars version-controlled in git and the raws and output > files (also version-controlled) in git-annex. This is kind of a seamless > integration. Git-annex can care about distributing your files among your > devices and you can do things like copying a bunch of files for editing > during a travel and let the system put them back later. All of your files > will always be visible to dt on all devices, but if file contents are tried > to access but are not there, the system will try to get them from wherever > a duplicate of the file lies. It can therefore as well access several cloud > providers and can store files encrypted. > > I always wanted to give it a try for photo management but I never had the > time, and I have only one computer, so it is enough for me to have the xmp > files in a git. > > One could dream about darktable interacting smarter with changed xmp > files, git and git-annex, if you have some programming skills you could try > using the internal lua scripting e.g. to commit new versions into git > whenever a xmp file is written. I always wanted to try this but I have very > limited time constraints at the moment and very limited programming skills > as well. > > Best regards > > Chris > > > 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 >> >> > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
