Hello, I finally managed to move from iPhoto to darktable by using the software "phoshare" on the mac and a lot of bash-programming on linux. Now I'm starting to use darktable and see how powerful it is. Already now I think, moving was the correct choice.
Still a few questions: 1. Is there an easy way to make something like albums? I mean something like a new folder with links to some selected pics, so that I have a subselection? Background of this question is the fact, that I'm using my TV with DLNA support as digital picture-frame. It would be very nice if I could tag some pictures and a new folder per tag appears containing each picture link. I guess darktable does not offer such a solution right? Possible to make some scripts? 2. I understand that darktable is not meant to be a used for filesystem stuff. Anyhow I'm missing a possibility to rename a filmroll. I tried out, renaming a filmroll in the filesystem is possible but then darktable needs to re-import the folder. Is there an other way? Actually, I really have a lot of problems as I didn't do the naming of my filmrolles accurately, In iphoto I had one indicating photo and this was enough. Is there any plan going on to change darktable for a better usability, here. Maybe I'm just misunderstanding the concept. Currently I have more than 30k pics from the last years imported as roughly 1000 filmrolls. So I'm just asking, what do you do to find a picture?? 3. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to recover the modifications I did to the pictures. Luckily I didn't do much, as iPhotos feasibilty is very limited, but.... Especially, I set thousands of geotags in the picutures manually, which I would like to keep. I think I would be able with some scriping magic to read in this information from iPhoto. Is there an easy way to tell darktable "please use these geotags for these pictures"? E.g. I saw one can provide a file with the exif_date and the geotag and darktable will set the geotag to the corresponding picture. So is it possible to do this on a larger set of picture (lets say 30k??) How should the fileformat look like? 4. I didn't found a possibility in darktable to set a geotag manually. There is only the workaround with the mentioned file. Is there something going on into this direction? 5. I'm missing a possibiliy to move one picture forward and backward in the darkroom. Using the mouse on the lower part is very slow. Is there a keyboard shortcut? Thanks a lot in advance Georg Am 21.12.2016 um 21:38 schrieb Georg Troska: > Hello to everybody, > > thank you very much for the very quick answers. > > > I think the idea with the xmp-files is brilliant. When started googleing I > found this: > > https://gist.github.com/lpar/2191225 > > What do you think about it? Has somebody tried it out? Is is compatible to > darktable? > > I'm a bit afraid to let is run overy my whole library without fully > understanding what it does. maybe I create a copy first :-) > > > Georg > > > On 21.12.2016 21:27, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote: >> Am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2016, 21:17:44 CET schrieb Georg Troska: >>> Hello Hanatos, >> Not hanatos, but hi nevertheless. :-) >> >>> I already tried my first importing on the dataset of the last year: >>> >>> in iPhoto my photos are stored on a yearly basis followed by a daily >>> basis (e.g. 2016/31.10.2016/00001.NEF). >>> >>> So when I am importing the folder 2016 recursively I will get as many >>> filmrolls as there are folders in 2016 with the names of the folders. It >>> would be very nice if the dates would be replaced by the names that I >>> used in iPhoto. In iPhoto these names are stored in a sqlite3 database. >>> I think when I would write a small programm I could receive the names >>> per folder from that database. But how do I tell darktable "please >>> import this folder and use this name"or "please import this folder use >>> this name and use this geo-location" >> [...] >> >>> When I'm calling darktable using a folder as parameter you say it will >>> import this folder. What will be the name of the filmroll? Can I set it >>> manually? >> For all intents and purposes "filmroll" is just a fancy name for "folder". >> More >> precisely the last level of the hierarchy. So in order to have the filmrolls >> named after the descriptions from iPhoto you have to rename the folders >> accordingly. If you want to take over metadata like georeferencing I would >> create an XMP file for the images before importing them with the data from >> your >> sqlite db. Tools like "exiv2" and probably also "exiftool" should be able to >> create such sidecar files for you. >> >>> Georg >> Tobias >> >> [...] > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > 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
