Plug the drive back in, restart darktable and it will all be working again This means that darktable cannot fines the images. If you disconnect the drive and start darktable, darktable will still show all of the folders in the external drive but thumbnails will be replaced withy skull icons. Using the box that opens, can you navigate to your external drive and see the folders and images? If the answer is yes, then you can leave them on your external drive and import into darktable.ĭarktable will make a reference in its own database to where they exist on your external drive and it will work just fine. To answer your question, when in lightable select the import tab. When you finish editing you go back to 'lightable' view When you double click an image you are taken to the 'darktable' view where you edit the image using the edit modules. copy and generally look after your images.

This is where you import/export browse, catalog, search. When you start darktable you are in the 'lightable view and the images are shown as thumbnails.

In a simplistic way, darktable has two main views to manipulate your images (there are more but lets keep it simple.

Darktable editing photos from server