Hi Andrew,
I dislike comparing programs because I really appreciate what the
developers have done with Darktable. I regard it as the best editing program
with the beautiful mask options to localise adjustments and get seamless
transitions. However, the one strength of Lightroom is the ease and
functionality of its collections. But for my personal use I rarely use
collections in Lightroom and rather depend on keywords (which darktable calls
tags). Maybe I need to learn use this feature more in Darktable. If you right
click on the tag in the list, then there is an option to go to tag collection
which brings up the images with this tag. This may not resolve all your
problems, but it may be worth looking at. I wonder why they use the term tags
and not keywords?
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From: Andrew Greig <and...@algphoto.com.au>
Sent: Saturday, 4 December 2021 1:42 PM
To: Terry Pinfold <terry.pinf...@utas.edu.au>; darktable-user
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Subject: Re: [darktable-user] The new import process
Thanks for your response Terry,
Because of my particular handling of my data, I have to wade through a long
list of strikeouts to find a collection. Maybe a resync button would be
effective, at least the list would always be clean. Then again, I expect that
most people do not move their data around.
Andrew
On 4/12/21 1:34 pm, Terry Pinfold wrote:
Hi Andrew,
I understand your concern. The way to delete these collections you no
longer want is to go to the collection and select all the images which will
possibly appear as a skull. Then use the option to remove all the photos, which
will not delete the images from your computer. The trash function is capable of
deleting the images from your hard drive but not the remove function which only
removes them from the collection. When the collection is empty it will then
disappear. Very simple once you get use to the way it works.
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From: Andrew Greig <and...@algphoto.com.au><mailto:and...@algphoto.com.au>
Sent: Saturday, 4 December 2021 9:47 AM
To: darktable-user
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Subject: [darktable-user] The new import process
Hi all,
I really preferred the import process in DT 3.4, maybe it is just my workflow
that needs a change.
After any use of my camera I upload the images to my computer as soon as
possible, to my Working folder on a solid state drive for speed. After I have
finished processing all of my images I Export images to my Google Drive and,
having done that I move the RAW files to storage on my RAID drive. And then,
the next time I want to access a folder of RAW images I have to navigate to my
RAID drive and import them again, which I expect to do.
What I have found out today is that I have a lot of collections with lines like
an editing "strike out" so I thought that I would see if I could remove one,
and then I received a warning dialogue, asking me if I wanted to remove the
collection from DT and fully delete them from the computer, or not. The whole
thing felt fraught with danger. Obviously I elected not to delete from the
computer, but because my RAW files were now in a different place I guess that
DT would have no idea where they were to delete in any case.
Also I miss the file manager search field in DT, it was so easy to find all the
shoots with a model very quickly. My subjective view is that DT file management
is not as friendly as it was.
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