* Mark Feit <mf...@notonthe.net> [11-14-21 15:44]: > On 11/14/21 8:22 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > but *you* are doing what you believe darktable should never do, altering > > the original raw file. exiftool changing the DateTimeOriginal *is* > > altering the original raw file and may cause you lose of data by altering > > the original. > > > That's the user's doing, and if they're doing it, they know they're doing > it. Lettubg darktable do it violates the principle of least astonishment. > > The user has the option of taking steps to preserve the "original original" > if they want to.
I have absolutely no argument with him altering his raw files, only that he believes he is doing no harm. He is free to delete them. but he surely cannot believe that he is not altering the raw file. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times... all things are as they were then, but were you there? ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
