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The Cloud isn’t really a back-up solution. Masses of user details get stolen and your security is at risk.Ĭloud storage can be a problematic one. Passwords and user names have been lost or forgotten and you’ve been locked-out. You’ve let the subscription lapse and not made local backups only to find access denied.
#DXO PHOTOLAB 2 DOES NOT CREATE THE XML FILE SOFTWARE#
Software where ‘software erosion’ has started to take place, applications which perform more and more slowly due to internal software errors, corrupted files, poor design.
Notoriously fickle in the way chains of these things booted up even on a good day. SCSSI drives were all the thing for large storage of media files. I’ve got piles of old external hard-drives which would be a real effort to hook up to any working computer now. Why should digits be any different? On the one hand just how much do we really need to store, hoard and view all those things from the past? But, when you do need to read that file, see that photograph or check that spreadsheet you’d better hope it’s still readable. It’s a state of play that’s been flagged up for years and is really starting to hurt some individuals and business’s.Įverything degrades with time, just look at your passport photo when you come to renew every 10 years. Now over 30 years on things start to get more problematic.īit, data, software rots cover a multitude of incompatibilities and degradation of digital files, incompatible hardware and software affecting the ability to read or work with legacy files and formats.
#DXO PHOTOLAB 2 DOES NOT CREATE THE XML FILE HOW TO#
how do you see the auto-calibration in practice? link in the post above has tutorial on how to create a lens calibration for use with lensfun, to get an idea of what’s involved.Īdding a lens to the database without providing calibration is not very useful.Bit-Rot, Data-Rot, Software-Rot everything rotsĪll this stuff worked well when the digital age was new, shiny and fresh. I guess there are some unexpected wrinkles in the process that make it less than straight-forward to implement in darktable (or it’s just not considered worthwhile given the existing tools).Į.g.
#DXO PHOTOLAB 2 DOES NOT CREATE THE XML FILE CODE#
If that’s not good enough, you’ll have to find someone to code what you want for you (or do it yourself…). With that set up, darktable does recognise my camera and lenses correctly. Look up how to create and populate a file. Not from within darktable, but under linux you can limit the number of lenses reported. Someday, it would be nice to see a system in Darktable whereby users can select lenses from the lensfun database they use for automatic detection and a simple UI to add lenses and cameras that are missing, with an auto-calibration option.