Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable Q2 and Q4

2017-04-16 Thread Tobias Ellinghaus
Am Freitag, 14. April 2017, 19:48:35 CEST schrieb Dr. Georg Troska: > Hello Tobias, > > I tried around a bit. Thank you very much for your hints. > > > In principle the presets (Voreinstellung in german) do what I want. But > are there meant to be used for such a case? > > What happens if I cre

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable Q2 and Q4

2017-04-14 Thread Dr. Georg Troska
Hello Tobias, I tried around a bit. Thank you very much for your hints. In principle the presets (Voreinstellung in german) do what I want. But are there meant to be used for such a case? What happens if I create 200 presets - one for each album I want to create? Therefore I'm asking: Is is

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable Q2 and Q4

2017-04-12 Thread Tobias Ellinghaus
Am Mittwoch, 12. April 2017, 21:37:37 CEST schrieb Dr. Georg Troska: > Hello Remco, Hi. > thanks a lot for your answer: > > I understand that I can select a filmroll and make an AND-search on e.g. > pictures with a yellow tag. But I do not see a way to store the this > virtual filmroll so that i

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable Q2 and Q4

2017-04-12 Thread Dr. Georg Troska
Hello Remco, thanks a lot for your answer: I understand that I can select a filmroll and make an AND-search on e.g. pictures with a yellow tag. But I do not see a way to store the this virtual filmroll so that it appears somewhere as further filmroll or so. I agree completely with the export

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2017-04-12 Thread Dr. Georg Troska
Thank you very much to all of you for your hints. I will start to try them out now :-) Georg Am 12.04.2017 um 09:49 schrieb Tobias Ellinghaus: Am Montag, 10. April 2017, 22:38:41 CEST schrieb Dr. Georg Troska: Hello, Hi. [...] 3. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to recover the modification

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2017-04-12 Thread Tobias Ellinghaus
Am Montag, 10. April 2017, 22:38:41 CEST schrieb Dr. Georg Troska: > Hello, Hi. [...] > 3. > Unfortunately, I wasn't able to recover the modifications I did to the > pictures. Luckily I didn't do much, as iPhotos feasibilty is very limited, > but Especially, I set thousands of geotags in the

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable Q2 and Q4

2017-04-11 Thread Remco Viƫtor
On mardi 11 avril 2017 22:22:50 CEST Dr. Georg Troska wrote: > Thank you very much for your answer. > > I saw that feature to correct one folder in the docs, already. But I'm > afraid to do this for 500 folders is a bit annoying :-) > This may sound harsh, but if you have to correct 500 folders,

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2017-04-11 Thread August Schwerdfeger
I was talking about editing the database directly, outside of Darktable, using SQL commands -- potentially dangerous, but the only viable way I could find to relocate several hundred film rolls without re-importing everything in them. As far as I know, the Darktable database schema is not document

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2017-04-11 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Dr. Georg Troska [04-11-17 16:29]: > Hello everybody, > > thank you very much for your answers. Unfortunately, my questions 1), 5) and > a part of 2) are still open. Maybe someone else who can give me a hint? > > very quick summary - for details please read below > > 1) Can I create Albums? >

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2017-04-11 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Dr. Georg Troska [04-11-17 16:23]: > Hello, thanks for your answser. > > I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. > > How do you edit the database? Opening darktable and then correcting the > folder paths as mentioned in the docs? Or is there a way to start darktable > using some parameters

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable Q5

2017-04-11 Thread Bernhard
Dr. Georg Troska schrieb am 11.04.2017 um 22:27: 5) Shortcut for navigating though the filmroll in the darkroom? Roman Lebedev schrieb am 10.04.2017 um 22:46: 5. I'm missing a possibiliy to move one picture forward and backward in the darkroom. Using the mouse on the lower part is very slow.

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2017-04-11 Thread Dr. Georg Troska
Hello everybody, thank you very much for your answers. Unfortunately, my questions 1), 5) and a part of 2) are still open. Maybe someone else who can give me a hint? very quick summary - for details please read below 1) Can I create Albums? 2) Best way to rename filmrolls? 5) Shortcut for n

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable Q2 and Q4

2017-04-11 Thread Dr. Georg Troska
Thank you very much for your answer. I saw that feature to correct one folder in the docs, already. But I'm afraid to do this for 500 folders is a bit annoying :-) The geotag thing with the map is exactly what I was looking for - thanks Georg Am 11.04.2017 um 18:44 schrieb Bernhard: D

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2017-04-11 Thread Dr. Georg Troska
Hello, thanks for your answser. I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. How do you edit the database? Opening darktable and then correcting the folder paths as mentioned in the docs? Or is there a way to start darktable using some parameters in order to correct some paths? If not would i

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2017-04-11 Thread Dr. Georg Troska
Hi thanks for your answer, please see below [...] pictures. Luckily I didn't do much, as iPhotos feasibilty is very limited, but Especially, I set thousands of geotags in the picutures manually, which I would like to keep. I think I would be able with some scriping magic to read in this infor

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable Q2 and Q4

2017-04-11 Thread Bernhard
Dr. Georg Troska schrieb am 10.04.2017 um 22:38: 2. I understand that darktable is not meant to be a used for filesystem stuff. Anyhow I'm missing a possibility to rename a filmroll. I tried out, renaming a filmroll in the filesystem is possible but then darktable needs to re-import the folde

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2017-04-10 Thread August Schwerdfeger
When I need to rename/relocate film rolls *en masse*, I usually rename each film roll's directory (in Bash or elsewhere) and then edit the database directly to apprise Darktable of the new paths (UPDATE film_rolls SET folder = "/new/path" WHERE folder == "/old/path"). Of course, it is very easy to

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2017-04-10 Thread Roman Lebedev
On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 11:38 PM, Dr. Georg Troska wrote: > Hello, > > I finally managed to move from iPhoto to darktable by using the software > "phoshare" on the mac and a lot of bash-programming on linux. Now I'm > starting to use darktable and see how powerful it is. Already now I think, > mov

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2017-04-10 Thread Dr. Georg Troska
Hello, I finally managed to move from iPhoto to darktable by using the software "phoshare" on the mac and a lot of bash-programming on linux. Now I'm starting to use darktable and see how powerful it is. Already now I think, moving was the correct choice. Still a few questions: 1. Is there an

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2016-12-21 Thread Georg Troska
Hello to everybody, thank you very much for the very quick answers. I think the idea with the xmp-files is brilliant. When started googleing I found this: https://gist.github.com/lpar/2191225 What do you think about it? Has somebody tried it out? Is is compatible to darktable? I'm a bit

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2016-12-21 Thread Tobias Ellinghaus
Am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2016, 21:17:44 CET schrieb Georg Troska: > Hello Hanatos, Not hanatos, but hi nevertheless. :-) > I already tried my first importing on the dataset of the last year: > > in iPhoto my photos are stored on a yearly basis followed by a daily > basis (e.g. 2016/31.10.2016/0

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2016-12-21 Thread August Schwerdfeger
As I understand it, film rolls in Darktable correspond directly to filesystem directories, so if you want new names for the film rolls you will need to rename the directories. -- August Schwerdfeger aug...@schwerdfeger.name On 12/21/2016 02:17 PM, Georg Troska wrote: > Hello Hanatos, > > I alread

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2016-12-21 Thread Georg Troska
Hello Hanatos, I already tried my first importing on the dataset of the last year: in iPhoto my photos are stored on a yearly basis followed by a daily basis (e.g. 2016/31.10.2016/1.NEF). So when I am importing the folder 2016 recursively I will get as many filmrolls as there are folders

Re: [darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2016-12-21 Thread johannes hanika
hi, On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 8:43 AM, Georg Troska wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've been using Apples iPhoto since its beginning. I think now its the time > to move to a better system like darktable. > > As I'm really familiar with iPhoto now, so maybe I just do not understand > the mechanism how p

[darktable-user] want to move from iPhoto to darktable

2016-12-21 Thread Georg Troska
Hi everybody, I've been using Apples iPhoto since its beginning. I think now its the time to move to a better system like darktable. As I'm really familiar with iPhoto now, so maybe I just do not understand the mechanism how photos are arranged in darktable: I tried to import the "Originals