* Carlos E. R.
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On 2015-09-12 02:34, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 09/11/2015 06:50 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
** Darktable saves all important image metadata (including tags, edit history, etc.) in XMP "sidecar" files alongside the images themselves. **
That not only describes the tagging but also what edits you've done to map the RAW to a JPG so you can go back and tweak it :-)
Yes. But in shotwell I configured it to save those things inside the photos, so that they carry across with file copy.
Naturally, if you copy whole directories (aka logical films) using ... rsync, dropbox ... whatever ... those go with the RAW file. And maybe the JPGs too depending where you keep them.
They are in the same directory, just different extension of the file names. So all those are copied across to the other machine. The camera does the same.
The database is at “$HOME/.config/darktable/library.db”. This is where Darktable saves information about the images you've imported. The library file is mostly just a cache that speeds up various operations within Darktable. When you import it lets you think in terms of "logical films" and "collections".
Yes, shotwell does some thing very similar. The help files tell not to copy it, let it regenerate instead.
This seems more a sot to the Windows/adobe style of doing things where the underlying file system is not of interest to the 'photographer'.
Correct.
OK, that broad brush and might offend some nit-pickers. I've not found the database essential. I do find other things in “$HOME/.config/darktable" essential. There's a lot of config there, sizes, colours, start-up defaults. But that's true for most applications that store in “$HOME/.config", isn't it?
Yep. :-)
Open an image with exiftool and check if tags are stored within the image's exif data table. Will be labled as "Subject" and "Tags List". Shotwell will recognize both as tags but stores tags as "Subject". exiv2 will also exhibit exif data but I am not familiar with the commands.
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