Suddenly I’m struggling with copy&import command. It’s not working anymore and I don’t know why? Didn’t change anything, except a windows update.
If I press copy&import button I always receive “imported 0 images” (from external & internal harddrive). No new filmroll, no photos imported. See attached screenshot which settings I use.
Is there any possibility to read out a logfile for figuring out what happened?
Or is it a known bug?
I am using DT 3.8.0 on Windows 11 Home 64bit Version 21H2 build 22000.434. Did already uninstall and install again → didn’t work. Don’t know how to fully remove DT and even more what files (except photos) I should back up to keep my color labels, star ratings, specific crop ratios or my darkroom preset.
Any ideas what else I can do? Any advices welcome.
unfortunately I had no success starting darktable from command line Still same behaviour & same “0 images imported” message.
Attached you will find the log you were asking for.
Witt, I’m not sure if this is the issue, but try this: replace the base directory naming from $(Pictures_folder)/Darktable with an actual directory/location (eg. C:\temp or C:\users…) . If you click the folder icon at the end, you can point to an actual folder.
The good news is that I can reproduce this locally on a Windows laptop. I’ll try and check.
May be related to https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/10934, where the $(YEAR) variable is not working.
The variable value (I mean $(PICTURE_FOLDER)) seems to be available elsewhere. E.g., adding it to the lighttable tooltip and overlay:
failed to create session path $(pictures_folder)\darktable\20220203_no_name.
Interestingly, here $(YEAR) and the rest are resolved properly (contrary to the issue mentioned above), that’s how we get 20220203. The $(JOBCODE) is also substituted correctly (no_name in the import job entry field).
To @wittmste : you might be better off doing file management with a file manager, and just import ‘in place’ (using add to library…), at least for now.
thanks for your helpful inputs!
I finally managed it with your hint @kofa (darktable windows insider program 1/30). Now import works as usal again. But I’d have never found the solution under that topic title
@g-man: I also tested your hint, accidentally already with new version 3.9.0. installed. Yes it worked, but due to DT 3.9.0 version I can’t say if it also works for 3.8.0.
@kofa: one last question, is this version kind of an inofficial pre-release? If I open the about section, version information is kind a weird number 3.9.0+192… (see attached pic)
It’s a weekly updated development build. It may be unstable and buggy. (Update: but many, including me, have been using the dev build for years, with few/no problems.)
Still same behaviour & same “0 images imported” message.
