Hi, have you tried $(FILE_FOLDER)/$(FILE_NAME) ?
But FILE_NAME includes an extension from dt, so the input may change from 'jpeg' to 'jpg' in the export. This is (closed as invalid) ticket #8835 http://darktable.org/redmine/issues/8835 regards, Sebastian On 2014-09-07 09:51, Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I am trying to use darktable as an external editor for Aperture 3. I > configured Aperture so that when I choose "open with external editor" > the image gets duplicated and darktable opens with the selected image in > it. >> Now, when I finish editing the file in darktable, the image should get > exported with ${FILE_NAME} in the same directory where the original file > resides (thus overwriting it). However, when I try to do that (ie, > entering either "${FILE_NAME}" or "./${FILE_NAME}" in the export name > box (with or without the Overwrite check-box checked), I get the error > message: >> Could not write to directory `.' ! >> >> Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? The folder where > Aperture stores its files is owned by me (and I have obviously write > permission on that directory), and I checked that the files that > Darktable exports are owned by me as well, so this shouldn't be a matter > of not having the correct write permissions... >> thanks for any comment >> >> best >> giuseppe >> >> >> >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Slashdot TV. >> Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. >> http://tv.slashdot.org/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Darktable-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
