That sounds strange. How are the xmp files named? If the duplicate uses a previously used version number, does it also overwrites the corresponding xmp sidecar? Regards, Guillermo
On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 1:06 PM Dusenberg <dusenb...@gmx.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Guillermo > > Yes the original and all duplicates were in the database before making the > new duplicate. > > Regards > Dusenberg > > On 25/07/2023 15:03, Guillermo Rozas wrote: > > Hi, > were the original and all the duplicates present in the database before > making the duplicate? > Regards, > Guillermo > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 5:57 AM Dusenberg <dusenb...@gmx.co.uk> wrote: > >> Originally posted to darktable-dev list in error. >> >> dt 4.2.1 (OBS), Linux Mint 21,Ubuntu 22.04 jammy >> >> I have an image from March 2020 developed in darktable. I went back to it >> today to try another edit on it (its a monochrome rendition that I just >> can't get 'right'). >> >> However, today when I created a duplicate of this 2020 image in dt >> 4.2.1, it was given version number '3' - which already exists for that >> image (there are seven pre-existing duplicates). I see that dt has also >> given the new duplicate a different 'image id' to the original RAW image. >> I've never seen this before, although its not often I go back in time like >> this. >> >> My workflow is that I always create a new version (duplicate) of the base >> RAW for a different edit so I can trace back any final output that may >> result. My filenaming system is '<filename>_<version >> number>_<colorspace>_<max size>' where filename is composed of >> '<YYYYMMDD_projectname_original camera filename>'. Original camera images >> are renamed during download onto my workstation via a bespoke script (ie >> outside dt). I use variables in the dt export module to ensure any output >> follows this format. This provides unique identification of every image >> and its derivatives across my libraries, even when intermediate tiffs are >> involved in say, focus stacks. >> >> This is critical for me - I can't have two different edits of a RAW with >> the same filename! Why has it happened and what can I do about it? >> >> Thanks >> ____________________________________________________________________________ >> 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 > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > 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
