Oh help! DT 4.0 won’t start after trying insider build (sorta solved!) – #20 by g-man – darktable

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

It is strange: using
.\bin\darktable –configdir “.\config” in the bat file
Opens darktable but says the database is locked

I have an earlier experimental build using exactly the same method, and there is no problem.

The black command line box shows that it is the DTdev version that is running
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If I use the full path name in the bat file
C:\Program Files\DTdev\darktable\bin\darktable –configdir “C:\Program Files\DTdev\darktable\config”
The program doesn’t open at all. Is there something I have typed in wrong?

I am wondering if the problems are the contents of the config directory
Should I start with an empty config directory, or should I have the particular files in there? I believed that if it was empty, then darktable would start with a new database and default settings.
If people are bored with this, then I am happy to call it a day, as it is just looking at my own problem, and not of interest to others…and I still have a perfectly good version of darktable to use.

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