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How to refresh a folder already in darktable when new photos are added?

Photography Asked on August 3, 2021

I am photo documenting a little pet project I have, and when I have progress captured I put those images into a folder named after the project. However, when I run Dark table, the newly added pictures are not there.

The new pictures only appear when I again do Import - Folder..., but I would prefer to just press some refresh button to load new images in that folder. How to do that?

One Answer

In my experience importing again is the only way because Darktable maintains folders as film rolls in a database table. It does not monitor the file system.

An advantage of this approach is there are many other ways to collect images. Another advantage is that all collections are independent of the file system...you can export jpgs back to the original folder without making the light table view confusing.

Correct answer by Bob Macaroni McStevens on August 3, 2021

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