Hi Johannes, thankfully, your commit link put me on the right track. I had to choose between manually redoing 520 pictures, or writing a script to parse and convert the format, and decided to do the second as it appeared to be more fun.
It was! If anyone is interested, please find the Python script attached. What it does is parsing the .dt file (I followed the C code) and replacing the image history in the database by the history contained in the .dt file. This seems to work for all images I checked so far, but may fail in special cases (modules that became obsolete, for example) so your mileage may vary. In any case: make sure that you create a backup of your library database before doing anything; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! ;-) Best wishes, Martín On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 11:18 AM, johannes hanika <hana...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > please don't rename these files.. they are ancient to an extent that i > forgot what the format was. there was once a version of dt that could > read both files, so i guess there's hope. i don't think you can > reasonably read these files nowadays, but the way to do it would > probably be a standalone tool that converts them to xmp, using some > arcane code from git. > > as a point of reference, this commit removed the writing functions (so > the diff may be seen as the spec of these files): > > https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/commit/ > 8883a806cbe71f9c2789372defd9156fa7d77d54 > > -jo > > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Michael Rasmussen <m...@miras.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 01:36:34 +0100 > > Martín Soto <dons...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi everyone: > >> > >> Looking at some of my older pictures, I found a bunch of files that were > >> processed with an ancient version of Darktable, which produced .dt > sidecars > >> instead of .xmp. As far as I can see, though, recent versions of > Darktable > >> will just ignore these files and create fresh .xmp's for images having a > >> .dt sidecar. > >> > >> I'd really love to recover the settings I used back then, so reading the > >> .dt files would be great. Is there a reasonable way of doing it? > >> > > Have you tried simply renaming them from some_name.dt to some_name.xmp > > > > -- > > Hilsen/Regards > > Michael Rasmussen > > > > Get my public GnuPG keys: > > michael <at> rasmussen <dot> cc > > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD3C9A00E > > mir <at> datanom <dot> net > > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE501F51C > > mir <at> miras <dot> org > > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE3E80917 > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > /usr/games/fortune -es says: > > Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. > ____________________________________________________________ > ________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscribe@ > lists.darktable.org > > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
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