On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 22:22 -0600, Leonard Evens wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 21:57 -0600, Leonard Evens wrote:
> > I've been processing NEF files in a folder and exporting the results as
> > tiff files which I save in a subfolder.   I also have specified that
> > jpegs be  ignored.   But if I close darktable and oen it again choosing
> > that folder, it insists on creating xmp files for everything and showing
> > me them in lighttable.   The only way I see to avoid that is to save the
> > jpegs and exported tiffs in an entirely different folder.   Is that
> > right?
> 
> Another disaster.
> 
> I moved all those files to folders outside the folder I wanted to work
> in.  But then when I opened the folder in darktable, it still  showed
> them.  So, thinking they were safely in independent folders I selected
> the tiff and jpegs, which shouldn't have showed up because I selected
> the option not to show jpegs.   I then removed them by using the right
> hand panel in lightable and using the remove command.  Then despite
> being somewhere that I thought was safe, they all got deleted from my
> disk.  Not only were the files delected, but the folders I had put them
> in were also deleted!
> 
> I really have no idea what dakrtable is doing,  It seems to be
> determined to mess me up whatever I do.  I can reocver the tiffs by
> reexporting them.  But the jpegs are gone entirely.
> 

Now I am thoroughly confused again.   After laboriouslly exporting all
those images over again, they have reappeared in the directory I had
originally moved them to.  So, not only can darktable confuse me, it
seems to be able to confuse Linux's file system.  Any ideas about what
is going on?


-- 
Leonard Evens [email protected]
Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University


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