This was the only "repository" I could find am going ahead with this and will get back on the results
thanks ram On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 12:32, Ramnarayan.K <ramnaraya...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
