Re: Image write disable token instead? - Re: [darktable-user] Undo in lightable?

2017-04-17 Thread Mark Heieis
Nice! On 2017-04-17 01:40, Romano Giannetti wrote: My strategy is to backup all .xmp files before starting a session and sometime in the middle. In my collection which is now around 100G the compressed file with all .xmp is less than half

Re: Image write disable token instead? - Re: [darktable-user] Undo in lightable?

2017-04-17 Thread dt-list
Mark Heieis (2017-Apr-16, excerpt): > Just wondering if an > "image write disable" that prevents any changes to the image > (some what akin to the color buttons) might by a > solution/option. It's not an undo but would protect image > edits and could

Re: Image write disable token instead? - Re: [darktable-user] Undo in lightable?

2017-04-17 Thread Romano Giannetti
On 17/04/17 10:23, René Seindal wrote: I believe you can 'protect' images from modification by making a duplicate. That will create a group with the new duplicate as the front member, which will receive all modifications unless the group is opened and another member is selected. This way

Re: Image write disable token instead? - Re: [darktable-user] Undo in lightable?

2017-04-17 Thread René Seindal
I believe you can 'protect' images from modification by making a duplicate. That will create a group with the new duplicate as the front member, which will receive all modifications unless the group is opened and another member is selected. This way any accidental change will hit the dummy

Re: Image write disable token instead? - Re: [darktable-user] Undo in lightable?

2017-04-16 Thread Richard Vanek
Hello, ​I have started this discussion​, so let me finish it as well. When I used darktable for the first few times I was surprised that there is no global UnDo on a user action. In the lightable part none at all. In the darkroom it doesn't reflect user action, but probably some kind of code

Re: Image write disable token instead? - Re: [darktable-user] Undo in lightable?

2017-04-16 Thread Mark Heieis
I've been a victim of my own inattentiveness and wiped all edits on images in the library. It sucked but it was my fault. It would have been nice to have either a write protect feature on edited images (my preference) or an undo. In my case, the undo was backups. On

Re: Image write disable token instead? - Re: [darktable-user] Undo in lightable?

2017-04-16 Thread Richard Vanek
That doesn't solve the issue when you make wrong step in working in lightable. You like to make modifications, but you also like to make step back if you make wrong one. I wonder how all the commands are processed.If there is no undo, it may be because there is not a single queue through which

Image write disable token instead? - Re: [darktable-user] Undo in lightable?

2017-04-16 Thread Mark Heieis
Just wondering if an "image write disable" that prevents any changes to the image (some what akin to the color buttons) might by a solution/option. It's not an undo but would protect image edits and could also prevent situations of accidental