Moving PhotoLab from Windows PC to a Mac Mini

[BHAYT (Bryan [WIN10, PL7, VP4, FP7, G9 & EM1 Mkii, RTX 3060])]

@platypus thank you for checking and confirming what I understood to be the case, but had no way of verifying.

[JoPoV]

@platypus

Even though sidecars are interchangeable, It does nit mean that output files will look identical. There are differences in DPL for Mac/Win after all.

Because some thing are not read or is this tru even if all parameters are the same ?

[platypus (Canon & Mac (Intel and M1))]

@JoPoV

some thing are not read or is this tru even if all parameters are the same ?

Going up from DPL 6 to 7 should be okay, but who knows if DPL Mac/Win are functionally equivalent. I don’t. Equivalence is probably not available. Equivalent systems work - and crash - under the same conditions…and the latter is certainly not the case. Therefore, we must assume that functional equivalence is not available.

[John-M (Melbourne, Australia - Win10)]

@platypus

@John-M and I have exchanged sidecars which seemed to work seamlessly, even though their structure us different

One significant benefit of sidecar/.dop format produced by Mac vs Win version is that Mac version generates the sidecar in sorted order (hence, logically grouping all settings) … Whereas, the Win version exports settings/parameters in seemingly random order !

That is, sidecars produced by Mac are much easier to read/peruse than those created by Win version.