Digikam + darktable

[noname at fastmail.net]

Mike,

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.

Jay

On Sat, May 17, 2025, at 14:39, Michael Miller wrote:
> Yep, you got this. Good luck!
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike
> 
>> On May 17, 2025, at 2:26 PM, noname at fastmail.net wrote:
>> 
>> Hi again, Mike,
>> 
>>  In darktablerc, change database=library.db to read database=:memory:
>> 
>> Do I have that right?
>> 
>> Jay
>> 
>> On Sat, May 17, 2025, at 14:20, noname at fastmail.net wrote:
>>> Hi Mike,
>>> 
>>> I can't find database=:memory: darktablerc . Can you point me to it? Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Jay Rutherford
>>> 
>>> On Sat, May 17, 2025, at 13:41, Michael Miller wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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