Hello, thanks for your answser.
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly.
How do you edit the database? Opening darktable and then correcting the
folder paths as mentioned in the docs? Or is there a way to start
darktable using some parameters in order to correct some paths?
If not would it be very hard to program a small tool working on the
console to move the folder in the filesystem AND correcting the path in
the database? Is there any doc how the database is organized. I can
volunteer to do some programing, too
Georg
Am 10.04.2017 um 23:04 schrieb August Schwerdfeger:
When I need to rename/relocate film rolls /en masse/, I usually rename
each film roll's directory (in Bash or elsewhere) and then edit the
database directly to apprise Darktable of the new paths (UPDATE
film_rolls SET folder = "/new/path" WHERE folder == "/old/path"). Of
course, it is very easy to mess up one's database this way, so some
caution is advised.
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August Schwerdfeger
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On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Dr. Georg Troska
<georg.tro...@uni-dortmund.de <mailto:georg.tro...@uni-dortmund.de>>
wrote:
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
<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
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