* Niranjan Rao <nhr...@gmail.com> [09-27-19 19:53]: > Greetings, > > darktable 2.6.2, Ubuntu 18.04 > > > I'm trying to get more organized for my photos and even tagging them. I used > FSLint janitor for Ubuntu to clear duplicate images. I did run a query > against darktable DB to get the complete list of images and wrote a simple > shell script to check existence of these images. To my amazement, more than > 50% of my images do not exist now. I'm not worried about this part as I know > I deleted these images - copying from same card in multiple locations or > sometimes using /tmp directory etc. > > > My problem is how do I cleanup the database? I would rather not start from > scratch or with new database as significant number of (existing) images have > tags. My shell script provides a list of images that don't exist. I want > remove these from darktable database. I can adjust my script if data being > fed needs to be in different format. > > > Film role may or may not exists as I am in process of jpeg files when raw > files are available, again with the help of a script. Some film roles or > directories are missing and in some cases only a particular image is missing > as raw file exists. > > > Side car xmp files seems to contain tag information. So my best and easiest > option seems to be cleanup image directory, remove existing database and > reimport everything again. > > > Does this option sound reasonable? Any other better way to do this - like > selecting non existent or skull images from gui?
available on dt site: /usr/share/darktable/tools/purge_non_existing_images.sh I believe that will help you and more quickly/easily than recreating your db... -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
