Ok - sorry for misleading. On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 at 19:57, William Ferguson <wpfergu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:55 PM Jim Robinson <jimr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Susana, >>> >> >> I am sorry that you are still having problems. Having looked at the >> screen shots you posted recently I have an idea as to what the problem may >> be. To find out please try the following steps. These repeat some of the >> things you have tried before, but we need to be sure that there is nothing >> left over from previous attempts. >> >> 1/ make sure darktable is not running and then rename the file >> C:\Users\[your user name]\AppData\local\darktable to something else. Now >> start darktable. >> >> 2/ when darktable starts it will ask about installing the lua scripts as >> you have seen before. It is important that you answer this question and I >> am afraid that you probably have to do this in English! Click on the >> little downward triangle where it says 'install scripts'. This will open >> the drop down menu from which I suggest you select 'don't show again'. Now >> click on the button below which says 'execute'. I think this is perhaps >> where you have gone wrong before as it looks like you tried to import some >> photos without answering this question. >> > > It is NOT important to answer this question. This is simply an installer > to install the OPTIONAL lua-scripts. It in NO WAY affects darktable's > ability to process images. If you look at Bruce Williams latest youtube > video, you can see it minimized down in the corner because he has simply > chosen to ignore it, which you can too. And, yes I am certain it works > this way because I wrote it. > >> >> 3/ Now we will check that darktable is handling the lock files correctly >> by ending darktable by clicking on the X in the top right hand corner. >> >> 4/ Now count to 10 to let darktable complete its housekeeping. Now try >> to start dartable again. Hopefully it starts ok in which case the lock >> from the previous run was released. This time you shouldn't be asked about >> about the lua scripts. You might want to select Spanish language now in >> the configuration. Then you can terminate darktable again. >> >> 5/ Now we should try importing some images. Create a new test folder >> somewhere and place a few image files in it. Make sure it is just image >> files without any .xmp files from previous. Now start darktable and try to >> import the images in this test folder. If this works try exiting darktable, >> counting to 10 (as I said earlier darktable does some housekeeping before >> it releases the lock files so we need to give it a bit of time) and >> starting darktable again. Hopefully you can find the image files again in >> darktable. >> >> Let me know how you get on. >> >> Jim >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
