I’ve just started using DT and Darkroom is pretty complicated but I think I’m seeing a faint light at the end of the tunnel. Lighttable, however, is another story. Every time I fire DT up I can’t find images I worked on previously. I’m on a laptop with Pop! OS and an SSD for storage. I realise that you have to add anything that’s changed to the library again but images I spent a few hours on yesterday are not available today. I’ve looked all over the place adding files back to the library and came up with nothing.
I only have a couple hundred files so I’m thinking I should start all over again with, perhaps, better organisation on my part. What would be the best way to do that? Uninstall and reinstall?
Perhaps I should try Digikam for DAM and DT for editing. Do many folks use Digikam along with DT?
I just getting frustrated sorting where my files are all the time.
I remember Lighttable to be buggy. In the past there was a bug in Lighttable every time I tried to use some selections or culling view, but they fixed it. Now it’s better, but far from perfect.
I still got a bug where fiddling with dates can get me nowhere, losing my images on the list.
The good news it’s temporary - your images are still there, with all the settings you did.
Try to explain exactly what you did so maybe we can try help you out.
My approach (FWIW) is to do the main organization in my windows file system. Each “dump” of files from a camera SD card goes into a folder labelled with date, camera, and main event/subject.
In dt, I simply import the folders and rate the images, then after processing all the 2-3 stars (depends) or better images, they get exported as jpgs in a suitable size for sharing to a subfolder inside the folder of images.
I very rarely have any issues, but maybe I’m just not ambitious with organization…
I imported and added my new raw files to the library, rated them and opened one in Darkroom. I made several adjustments and moved on to another image. After editing three or four I could still go back and see the previously edited images with all the edits. At the end of the session I simply quit DT. This morning I went back in and all the edited images aren’t available. I was expecting to see the thumbnails at the cropped size. I checked this morning and xmp files are with all the photos but changes I made yesterday aren’t.
Yeah I also just put them in folders with the data and event/model name and then I star the images I want to develop, filter them, so only those get shown, edit, export, done
Do you mean that your raw files aren’t showing, or that just the edits are missing?
And how exactly did you install darktable? If it’s a flatpak install, that might be the problem, given this thread.
And can you re-import the images in dt? The edits should show after re-import.
When you say you did some rating…as someone mentioned are you sure you are not filtering at a certain rating . I think if you go to the folder and attempt to import… you should see one of two things…the files will be part of a the list without checkmarks ie not yet imported or they will have checkmarks indicating they are imported as as DT thinks anyway…so now if you cannot see them it would seem like filtering might be a good explanation…
