On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 09:18:08 -0700 "I. Ivanov" <iv3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As long as you have the .xmp created - when you import it on the > home computer - it would be fine. There are few scenarios that are > a bit unclear > > - the large USB - are you going to copy the images or use it from > the USB? Either way - you can simply import on the second computer > and it will read from the .xmp The laptop has 1 Tb drive and the USB is a 4Tb. I move the images from the sd card to both the USB drive and the laptop (to have 1 backup) > > - once you move the images on the home computer - what happens with > the laptop? - if you want to avoid confusion and both computers are > accessing the same USB - then you will have to consider > synchronization of the library (or easier - delete the library on > the travel laptop). Once at home, I don't care about the data on the laptop, eventually the data (both the images and the library) will be deleted. > What you want to avoid is using 2 different libraries (that are not > synchronized) and accessing the same images and editing them > (because the 2 instances can override one another) but reading the > request I don't think this is going to happen. > > You can also utilize check for .xmp changes on startup - it works > but the drawback is for a big library (many thousands of images) it > may take a while. So you don't want to have this setting all the > time. > > Hope this helps, It does. Thank you everybody -- sknahT vyS ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
