* no reply <[email protected]> [05-23-17 09:02]:
> Am Mon, 22 May 2017 19:42:41 -0400
> schrieb Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]>:
> 
> > * Аl Воgnеr <[email protected]> [05-22-17 18:39]:
> > > Renaming of photos leads to a lot of troubles and I try to find a
> > > workaroud for renamed photos, sometimes with the same name as an
> > > older photo had. This occurs especially with serial photos.
> > > 
> > > Eg you are taking pictures for a portrait in serial mode and then
> > > from 100 edited you keep the and rename then. In this case I change
> > > the time too, so that there is only 1 photo in 1 second and every
> > > photo is taken 1 second later in exif-data, while the makernotes
> > > are untouched, which show the actual values.
> > > 
> > > I am using a bash script to rename photos and the new name has
> > > always a corresponding xmp-file.  
> > 
> > there is a script "purge_non_existing_images.sh" included with dt or
> > available on the git site which will remove photos from the library
> > that do not have matching names on disk.
> 
> Thanks, I will study the code.
> 
> > since you are using a script outside dt to rename, just import that
> > group again and dt will read the matching xmp files, iirc.
> 
> In this case the photos have been imported a 2nd time. What about
> deleting the whole 1st import? How can I do this?

choose the group/collection/film rool/date/folders and select all and
"remove".  do not delete as it will remove files from your storage.

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