Hello everybody! I'm sorry but I will address this question again (posted earlier as user question) because this issue just irritates me quite often.
I have a lot of files imported in 2014-15 which have problem I describe a bit later. May be it will give some clues but files imported in 2012- 13 and in 2016 (and later) are not affected (years started to use DT). I open files randomly time to time so DT updates old saidecar files if it likes. So affected files are not original files created in 2014-15. I don't know since which DT version it started but all files which are affected now have huge sidecar files — 10-25 megabytes. So as expected XML parser (which is single threaded I believe and not hardware accelerated) takes very long time to load and write sidecar files. Meanwhile editing is not any slower. I tried little trick — I just removed all history stack by clicking "original" and compressing it. I expected sidecar to shrink but it remained nearly the same. I tried opening this file and it is full of old tags related to masks, spot removal, etc... which were used long time ago and no longer present in history stack or mask manager. Looks like DT doesn't handle (or couldn't handle in earlier versions) importing of files created in previous DT versions. Thanks is advance, Timur. P.S. Sample RAW + XMP (plus XMP after removing history stack): https:// drive.google.com/open?id=1RwMA7Aq5PiF3iORSGsN5xpkYEv-IEHQ0 ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
