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 <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 01:36:34 +0100
> Martín Soto <[email protected]> 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
>
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