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?
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