Because of moving or renaming directories the paths to my photos changed. How can I automatically remove all dead links so that the missing photos aren't displayed (marked with a skull) anymore?
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Is deleting the database an acceptable solution, or do you have new rolls added which you don't want to delete? – Peter Taylor Oct 17 '18 at 17:47
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1I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is about database management, not about taking photographs. There are more appropriate groups on SE to deal with managing databases. – Michael C Oct 17 '18 at 20:25
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5You are of course right, but unfortunately as long as there is no darktable SE site (my question is darktable specific, not about databases) I think the question is most appropriate on this photography SE. If there arises a new darktable SE on Area 51 I'd like to transfer this question. – quiliup Oct 18 '18 at 7:45
The darktable project includes a shell script called purge_non_existing_images.sh which will remove any entry pointing to a file which doesn't exist.
It requires an environment that will run a POSIX-compatible "sh" script; on Windows, this may require the installation of such a shell... on Linux, the script itself may or may not be installed along with darktable depending on how it was packaged. Some distributions may provide a "darktable-tools" or similar package for this purpose (there are several other interesting things in the "tools" directory).
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The shell script was not included in the darktable packages of my linux distribution but running the script you linked to worked fine. Thank you very much! – quiliup Oct 18 '18 at 7:59
If you're using a Snap package, line 9:
DBFILE=$HOME/.config/darktable/library.db
should be replaced with:
DBFILE=$HOME/snap/darktable/current/library.db
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