On dimanche 20 mars 2022 08:28:07 CET Andrew Greig wrote: > On 20/3/22 17:59, Remco Viëtor wrote: > > On dimanche 20 mars 2022 00:20:09 CET Andrew Greig wrote: > >> 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? > > > > No, you should *not* inport your jpegs in darktable. > > > > What you can do, is read the jpeg as a sidecar file: > > select the required image in the lightroom, and in the right sidebar, the > > module "history stack" has an option "load sidecar file". Click that and > > select the jpeg you want to use the edit from. > > Afaik, there's no easy way to automate that for a group of images. > > > > And may I suggest regular backups of at least the database (ideally also > > of > > the images and sidecar files)? > > > > Remco > > > > P.S. your previous problems were with the *"export"* module, here you seem > > to have been using the "history stack module". Different modules, so the > > "append/ overwrite" switches are independent! > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > > __ darktable user mailing list > > to unsubscribe send a mail to > > darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org > Hi Remco, > > I have done exactly as instructed, Light-table view with the selected > file highlighted > > In the History stack module I clicked on the Load Sidecar file and > navigated to the Folder containing my full size edited jpgs, choice was > xmp files or all files. Nothing showed with xmp files button but when I > selected all files, I had access to the jpgs but selecting the correct > jpg did nothing but return me to the Light-table view. Is there any way > to just extract the xmp data without Darktable running? > > Kind regards > > Andrew Exiftool or Exiv2 can do that, as far as I know. But I've never tried to do that.
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