On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 21:49 -0800, Derek Kite wrote:
> In light table, Select, select all, then Selected Images, remove. This
> clears it, without physically deleting the files. I'd backup the files
> in another folder first just to be safe.

Thanks for telling me how to deal with the problem.  It is a big help,
but I would still like to know just where darktable is keeping the
information and why it does what it does.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Leonard Evens
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>         I was going through the NEF files in a certain folder and
>         processing
>         them all. The folder contained NEF files and also JPEGs for
>         the same
>         images.  I exported the processed files to the same folder as
>         tiff
>         files.  But darktable died when I was exporting the last
>         image.    Now I
>         can't get anything usable from that directory.
>         
>         First of all, when I bring darktable up again it is in an old
>         foder I
>         finished with long ago.   Moreover,  the folder shows .xmp
>         files for all
>         the tiff files and jpegs as well as for the NEFs.  Moreover,
>         it won't
>         let me do anything.  I've tried doing various things,
>         including removing
>         all those extra files and moving the tiffs I want to keep to a
>         subdirectory.
>         
>         But the only thing that works is creating a new directory and
>         mvoing
>         only the NEFs and the NEF.xmp into it.  Then I can work with
>         the images
>         again.
>         
>         So, would someone please explain to me where darktable is
>         keeping
>         information about the directory.  Why does it keep thinking
>         files are
>         there even if they have been removied.  And where can I find a
>         reliable
>         description of how to deal with folders so I can predict what
>         will be in
>         them,  and how can I prevent darktable from relaying on very
>         odl file
>         histories?
>         
>         Finally, can anyone explain just what is gained by having such
>         a messed
>         up fille nadling structure?
>         --
>         Leonard Evens [email protected]
>         Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern
>         University
>         
>         
>         
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University


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