Have a look at https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/3.8/en/module-reference/utility-modules/lighttable/history-stack/ section load sidecar file If you embedded the history stack into your exported jpg (you need to check the option explicitly) then you can use the the exported jpg like an xmp file to apply the embedded history stack and shapes to a raw file.
If you’re doing frequent backups you can go back to an older state of library.db and export then sidecar files of the affected setback images and then after switching back to the recent library.db you can let darktable check for updated Xmas (preferences-storage-look for updated xmp files on startup Good luck > Am 20.03.2022 um 00:22 schrieb Andrew Greig <and...@algphoto.com.au>: > > > Hi All, > > I have read the manual on xmp files, and scrolled through the emails around > my issues of over-written xmp files. But I have not found a clear process to > follow. Last night after exporting a set of 259 images at full -size jpg I > added a watermark using the selective copy and paste but when I looked at the > results of copying a single image with a watermark added, the resulting 258 > images went dark (back to an out of camera condition). I had this happen > before and I checked the "Overwrite" and "Append" switches and found that > somehow it had changed from Append to Overwrite. Prior to my former > disaster, through several versions of Darktable I had never altered the > Append to Overwrite, never given it a thought. But now, twice in a couple of > months something, maybe a power failure overnight , has seen DT choose > "Overwrite". So when selecting just the watermark to copy to the 258 files, > with the setting at "overwrite" everything els has been zeroed and the > watermark remains. I hate that overwrite button, can't imagine who would use > it, maybe we could lose it . But I digress. > > I have been told that I can recover the xmp files from my exported (and > correct) jpgs. So I need to discover the process. I imagine that I would > need to load my jpg files into Darktable instead of my RAW files with their > ovewritten xmp files. But what is next, please? > > -- > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
