This is a major breaking change, but it also seems to happen intermittently.
In the editing view, if you create a virtual copy, nothing happens, so you do it again few times to see if it will work the next time - it doesn’t appear to.
If you then change to another directory and come back, you see several virtual copies have been created.
So, you multiple select all the superfluous copies and delete them. This then changes all the thumbnails to show an icon indicating that the image can no longer be found.
Once again, changing to another directory and returning “deleted” these false “files”
This is an urgent regression and needs fixing as a priority.
This seems to happen if you “open with…” from Finder or other external software that “sends” the file to PhotoLab.
If you open PhotoLab, then choose an image, everything seems to work normally… so far
[EDIT]
This seems to be totally reproducible and, even if you change directories after having opened PhotoLab from a file in Finder, whichever directly you move to the virtual copy bug continues to manifest itself.
To repeat myself, if you open PhotoLab before selecting an image, everything appears to work fine.
It would be great if someone from DxO could replicate this bug (easy), confirm here and then we can hope for a fix. It becomes annoying since I usually start PL from FastRawViewer and then have to restart always to work with duplicates.
OK, we finally managed to get to it. We have reproduced the issue and the fix is under validation right now. It should be available in the next version.
As you have seen when looking for various cases, it only fails when PhotoLab was not launched and you start it from another app (Finder or otherwise). So for now, if you want to go around it, you can launch PhotoLab first then do the Open With, and that should do the trick.