For this reason, I often divide days up into many subfolders. The other reason I do this is there are sometimes days that I take thousands of photos, many more than are efficient to load in darktable or other processing software. This is mainly because I don’t find creating folders and copying photos particularly time consuming, and my file-structure predates my use of darktable. While this method may be convenient for many, I choose to create my file structure manually. The second reason this feature is nice, is that you can pre-apply creator, publisher, and rights information to the metadata on import (although many cameras let you apply this directly to the images as well).
If you were to just dump all of your photos in a single file folder, you would end up with very slow load times in most programs, and may run into problems with duplicates since most cameras just loop through filenames after 9999 photos. It’s good to store photos in separate files by the day because then you usually won’t have too many folders to sort through at a time. One of the benefits to letting darktable import for you is that you will have a consistent file structure for storing your photos.
To change your import settings including what directory to import to as well as adding creator, publisher, and rights to the metadata on import, go to the “import” tab in the “preferences” menu (the gear wheel in the top menu). Depending on your version of Darktable, it will also create a prefix on your photo files if you enter a “Job Code” during import. By default, this will import your photos to your “Pictures” folder and create subdirectories for Year, Month, and Day. You can either import with this function by connecting your camera, or just the memory card to your computer. Prologue – File Management Import from Cameraĭarktable has a built in “Import From Camera” option that you may find useful.
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