synchronising files and darkroom catalogues

[akgt94]

Here is a worked example (Windows .bat). The specific use case was to have 2 sessions of darktable running at the same time. But it’s proof-of-concept regarding the command line parameters.

How to run 2 sessions of darktable (how to show 2 live edits side-by-side)

It only happens when I try to execute darktable from the above batch file. I noticed if I remove the start command, it works fine, but then I have a command prompt that launched darktable with an open window. I rarely do batch programming anymore, but I’ve used “start” to launch windows executables like this to prevent command windows from staying open after the “real” executable launches. [error 2] I found an old post somewhere elese that said to pass a null command to start first. The ba…