But that is exactly the image as presented back to you when you open it in PL5 i.e. the the final state of your changes after an editing session. What is “missing” on Win 10 is the whole of the ‘Advanced History’ stack (last change first) and the option to cut back the stack to an earlier time, i.e. abandon later changes.
You get what you seem to want simply by stopping editing an image, i.e. the ‘Advanced History’ holds the minutiae of how you arrived at those settings but the final settings for the various editing options is that final state and that is preserved in the database and in the DOP.
BUT if you select a point in the ‘Advanced History’ where a setting had a value you now decide is what you should be using then double clicking will restore that value but destroy every edit beyond (above) that point so using your technique to take a value and apply it to the option will leave all other edits as they were but conceptually revert the specific setting back to one you used earlier.
I believe that your consolidation process is unnecessary, i.e. you are already getting that with what is currently on offer with PL5 on Win10.
My initial “rant” was about presets which are currently all that is available to Win 10 users. Your alternative to refining your settings to only contain the last that you used is the same as creating a preset which will be made up of “only” the final settings you arrived at!
However, I consider the current handling of presets leaves something to be desired, as I stated above.
Alternatively, you can leave the edits in the image and use that image as a kind of “preset” via the copy and paste of correction setting from one image to one or more others, including Virtual Copies of the original image or Virtual Copies of other images as both the source of edits (copy) and the recipient of edits (paste).
So on Win10 we have no history preserved beyond a session and a rather “restricted” preset handling with a “useless” (in my opinion) ‘Applied default preset’ which is essentially the same for every image I have ever edited!
I want something useful, while we wait for a full history, namely;
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The last preset I applied to an image (there may well be additional edits beyond that point which will be lost as detail on Win 10 with no preservation of the ‘Advanced History’ but preserved as the final PL5 settings for the image)
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The name of the last (or all presets) that I saved while editing an image to retain some form of link between images and the presets that were created as a result of edits applied to that image.
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Easier handling of any renaming operation, presets and images etc.
When (if) the ‘Advanced History’ preservation feature eventually arrives on Win 10 then I am prepared to put up with excruciating detail rather than nothing at all but with the option 1 and 2 above included and the ability to dispense with the excruciating detail for any and all images when I simply don’t want it or don’t want it any more!
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Plus the paste can be selective
EDIT 02:-
@Prem if a “compact” history is important to you then you could
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Create a Virtual Copy of an image and do all the fiddly adjustments on VC[1]. Please note that for basic work each DOP for each image ([M]aster and Virtual Copy[ ] is about 10KBytes in size, getting much larger with high numbers of ‘local adjustments’.
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When happy with the final results these can be transferred to the [M]aster (original) image (copy and paste corrections).
Going from this
to this
Please note that when creating a new Virtual Copy, from the [M]aster or another VC[ ], the creation process will take the settings and metadata from the image (copy) that is selected when the ‘Create Virtual Copy’ command is executed!
For replacing or swapping a [M]aster with a VC[ ] then please see here Avoiding "Unwanted Virtual Copies" when copying Images and DOPs between systems - #3 by BHAYT in the EDIT.