Hi Mica Thanks
Will try Seems like Darktables latest updates do not show up on Linux Mint's repos so will try and add the Darktable PPA and see if this fixes the issue regards ram On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 23:33, Mica Semrick <m...@silentumbrella.com> wrote: > Have you checked against the latest release version 3.0.2? > > 2.4.x is really old. > > On July 13, 2020 10:56:40 AM PDT, "Ramnarayan.K" <ramnaraya...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I am using darktable 2.4.2 on Linux Mint 19 Tara \n \l >> >> Have been using this for some years. >> >> However earlier because I was not exporting images for use on a site that >> uses exif data to organize the pictures the "bugs" did not bother me - now >> they do >> >> *First Bug - Random change in exif date* >> Specifically the bug seems to be that Darktable randomly changes the exif >> date (and time) of when the picture was taken. >> >> I shoot in Nikon raw format (.nef) and have usually been exporting images >> to jpeg using the naming format as below >> $(EXIF_YEAR)$(EXIF_MONTH)$(EXIF_DAY)_foo_name_$(FILE_NAME) >> >> This is when I started realizing that Darktable was messing up the dates. >> Two files taken in a sequence are set many months apart with the wrong date >> set randomly to some period earlier. >> >> I normally work directly on the SD Card for immediate processing and >> later work of my external Hard Drive for more careful processing and >> organizing . >> >> Googling, for this error, does not throw up any results - but maybe I did >> not google the correct terms. >> >> *Second Bug - Darktable keeps showing old deleted files in the darktable >> browser.* >> The reference environment is the same. However while working from / on >> the sd card darktable seems to pick up long deleted files - and shows many >> of them some from more than a year ago. >> >> I have formatted the SD cards multiple times - I have deleted the >> thumbnails and darktable caches from the Linux system - but these ghost >> files keep appearing - they appear as blanks on the lighttable - but there >> are 100's and to get to the actual files with content I have to scroll >> quite far down. >> >> *** >> Last >> *I really like Darktable *- it is my favorite go to software and has >> made life very easy for post processing and exporting to easily >> distributable formats. >> >> So thank you very much >> >> kind regards >> ram >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to >> darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org >> = > > ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
