On 12/08/2012 08:49 PM, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote:
Hi!
>> Basically you will lose your presets and your styles, as they are only
>> stored in the db. And of course the thumbnails, but those will be
>> regenerated on the fly. The other thing you may lose if you don't backup
>> the config file are the general configurations of the program.
>
> Getting rid of the database also removes all tags. While they are in the XMP
> files you will only get those into the lists in lighttable view for the images
> you re-imported.
Hm, could this actually be changed? If one is using tags a lot this is
quite a nasty limitation and the xmps contain them.
> So tagging new images might be a little harder since auto
> complete will miss some entries you previously used.
I would say that it is not a little harder but makes it quite difficult
to have it consistent then. I admit that beyond image processing of
images my current keyword catalogue is quite some work and some value on
it's own. I'd not like to loose it. IMHO normalized tagging for images
is even more important than for textual information as retrieval relies
on indexing. Therefore I admit that I don't even like the very word
"tag". Tags are just arbitrary words. I always think more in a
"controled vocabulary" or "thesaurus". I may mention that IMHO one
drawback of dt on that front is that it can't realy read in a controled
vocabulary of another source. Maybe one could adress this here as well.
These vocabularies are really valuable ressources. (Sometimes they are
even sold for quite some $$. Though I'm not a friend of that.)
But I this part of the story not in darktable. At least not yet. I'm
still hoping for IPTC to make it into dt... And with your note above
(thanks!!!) I may even wait till that is done "correctly".
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