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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
