* Dr. Georg Troska <georg.tro...@uni-dortmund.de> [04-11-17 16:23]: > 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. > > > > -- > > August Schwerdfeger > > aug...@schwerdfeger.name <mailto:aug...@schwerdfeger.name> > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > > darktable user mailing list > > > to unsubscribe send a mail to > > > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > > <mailto:darktable-user%2bunsubscr...@lists.darktable.org> > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > > <mailto:darktable-user%2bunsubscr...@lists.darktable.org> > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
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