On 2015-Jul-26, Patrick Shanahan wrote with possible deletions: > I would guess the best solution would be for you to adjust your work flow > and computer habits to best benefit your output.
I have 30years of computer habits: Store changes when you like them. But DT does not work this way, it just happily saves away... > If you have reached an acceptable edit, either clone/snapshot that > edit so you can revert or generate a finished product which you can > later import to regain the settings/xmp you are now loosing. Darktable's "snapshot" does not provide any backup functionality [0]. If you take a snapshot, and then delete the history stack, the snapshot does not serve as a means to restore the old stack, just as a means to see where you have been before. (rawtherapee [1] does ist that way, though, as pointed out in their manual [2]). I guess there once was a feature request inthat direction, but I cannot find it in redmine, maybe I'm wrong or it was on the mailing list. Cloning is not really sufficient, because the two images are not simple enough to tell apart (you have to look up the version number under file information, or read through the tags), and the collapsed group would always be represented by the nun-protected (i.e., ugly?) version [3]. Also it's way to easy to accidentally change the group head (which is to be told apart from the other images in the group by a slight variation of the contrast of the "G" on the thumbnail). > You cannot protect yourself *from* yourself past adjusting your own > work habits/flow. Sure, if I want to shoot my foot I can do so. But I'd expect it to be hard, i.e., the default direction of a gun should not be my foot. Regards Stefan ____________________ [0] http://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch03s03s02.html.php [1] http://www.rawtherapee.com/ [2] http://50.87.144.65/~rt/w/index.php?title=The_Image_Editor_Tab#Snapshots [3] http://www.darktable.org/usermanual/ch02s02s06.html.php -- http://stefan-klinger.de o/X /\/ \ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
