Darktable won't read images in new film rolls

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Forgive me if this is a known fix I just missed in the database.

Darktable / Lightroom won’t open the images in the newest few directories of files on my hard drive, and this is not an obvious issue of filter by date. I don’t know if this is a thing like having too many (several thousand) images previously opened, or a bug, or me being an idiot.

If I say “Import Folder” for the last two or three directories of NEF+JPG, nothing happens (“There are not images in this collection”). If I go to older folders, the images import fine. (I have a screen shot but don’t see an obvious “inset image” here, sorry.)

Anyway, any thoughts? I would be happy to add more details if needed.

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Do you need to recursively import images? Check the box on the import screen.

To upload a screenshot, just drag and drop.it on the editor window.

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Try right clicking on particular folder, then choose “Open with…” and your desired program (DT or LR). It will appear as new film roll and will be opened in lighttable. I don’t import, but always load folder to DT this method. I sort/copy using external software, then load to DT or RT.

How much free space do you have on this partition?

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Thanks for the help. Let me drag and drop the image…

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Windows 10, I should have said.

I’ve tried with an without recursive. I don’t have “Open with… Darktable” on right click, and “Send to… Darktable” gave a “strange path found” error.

To reiterate, folders created before a certain date open fine, but new ones fail. I wonder if there’s a limit to how many umpteen thousand raw+jpg in the history? Can I clear the history?

I did a repair re-install of 3.2.1 and no change.

I assume I’m doing something stupid but I don’t know what.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

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sqlite starts to slow down at hundreds of thousands of objects, but it just slows down, it still works. So I don’t think that is your problem.

I don’t see anything obviously wrong with your screenshot…

Are you seeing any error dialogs?

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In the screenshot the two most recent collections (and the active one) have a name ending with a ‘%’ character. Is that indeed the correct name? OR did you change an import script, which now has an extraneous ‘%’?

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Thanks for the comments. The % being present or absent makes no difference.

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Ultimately, any folder moved to the computer after a certain time won’t read in.

IS there a “factory reset” command? I uninstalled and re-installed which left all of my recently viewed directories, etc., in place so I clearly didn’t get the config files.

Thanks
Sorry

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Delete the darktable config folder.

Is there spaces or some weird characters in the folder name/path?

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There were no odd characters in any of the failed directories.

I ended up uninstalling and nuking c/users/username/AppData/Local/Darktable and then reinstalling — that appears to have fixed it.

How odd.

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Did you back up your styles etc? If not, you will have to re-create all. They can be backed up to safe, non-database text files, then “imported” to newly installed DT.