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
