Peter Schlaufer schrieb am 06.08.20 um 09:36:
Dear All
I am with dt since half a year after more than 10 years with LR and I
have to say, that after an initial hard time I find it now better for
me. I am a frequent reader to this blog and these mails. With this I
became more interested with Linux. I am now on MacOs and working with
dt is going very smoothly. However my temptation for Linux grew
bigger, I therefore built on my Macbook Air an Ubuntu Application on
which I as doing my first steps and I find it even better and am
tempted to change to Linux for good. I have my pictures (apprx
25’000)on an external SSD drive and they are now all organised in
darktable and as a big work I have reworked all the tags of these
photos, which have been growing in these 15 years to a giant mess and
this was a big work which I could do during the lockdown time. The SSD
drive is MacOs journaled formatted
For this I have some questions: When I now would change to Linux I
would have to reformat the SSD drive to fat32 that it can be read and
written in Linux. After an import to a Linux darktable-application
would then only the the xmp data which were created by dt seen or
would the „old“ xmp data, especially all the tags, of LR times
reappear and so be destroying all the lot of work, which would make me
reconsider a possible change.
I would suggest
- not use fat32 - no journal and lot very data secure
- use one of the native linux file systems if you work on linux only on
that machine (I use good old ext4 on my machines)
Data import: I would simply
- copy the profile of darktable to the new install
- copy the image folder to the newly formated drive home directory
(provided that your images are organised with a main folder and all
subfolder below that).
After first start go to the collect module in lighttable and select the
"directory" view
You might find your main folder stroked through.
If that's the case, then right click on that entry and chose the new
location
After that you should be done, everything should be up and running
--
regards
Bernhard
https://www.bilddateien.de
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