<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;">Mike,</div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;">Works great! My tagging holds up very well bidirectionally between digiKam (my DAM) and Darktable (my darkroom). I never would have found that out. Thanks.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;">Jay</div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div><div>On Sat, May 17, 2025, at 14:39, Michael Miller wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><div>Yep, you got this. Good luck!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><div>Mike</div><div><div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 17, 2025, at 2:26 PM, noname@fastmail.net wrote:</div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;">Hi again, Mike,</div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"> In darktablerc, change database=library.db to read database=:memory:</div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;">Do I have that right?</div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;">Jay</div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div><div>On Sat, May 17, 2025, at 14:20, <a href="mailto:noname@fastmail.net">noname@fastmail.net</a> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt-qt" style=""><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;">Hi Mike,</div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;">I can't find database=:memory: darktablerc . Can you point me to it? Thanks.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;">Jay Rutherford</div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div><div>On Sat, May 17, 2025, at 13:41, Michael Miller wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt-qt-qt" style=""><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;">By using the database=:memory: darktablerc setting, Darktable will automatically read the image and the xmp sidecar every time it’s opened since there is no database for it to read from. Because the pick flag
and tags are written to industry standard metadata locations by digiKam, Darktable see them and use them.</div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:126.56%;"><br></div></body></html>