ralfbrown
commented
1 week ago That sounds like you have your images on the shared drive, but the actual library (database and configuration files) locally on each machine. You can use the --configdir commandline argument to point all of your machines at a common directory on the external drive, at the cost of slower operation (database updates as you work will take a bit longer) and not being able to edit from multiple machines at the same time.
Another option is skipping the database file with --library :memory:, but that will require reimporting each folder you want to work on every time you work on it, plus you lose the ability to search for images.
gael-vanderlee
I'm unable to use darktable at the moment because my library is stored on an external drive which I use to edit my photos on multiple computers. I thought that since all the data is stored on the xmp file it would be easy but the databases not being synched really make this difficult. Enabling "look for updated xmps on startup" somewhat helps but it still doesn't work.
Deleting photos from one device shows skulls on other devices, and the dbmaint script doesn't seem to work. Duplicating on one device doesn't show duplicated images on other devices. And this is just the first two things I tested.
Ideal solution would be to have an option "update database on startup", otherwise at least a manual option to "refresh" a film roll from the library.