PL9.2 - Advanced History remains available between sessions on Win

DxO PhotoLab
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What would be your rationale for ‘Edit History’?

From the release notes for PL9.2/Win:

Persistent correction history:
- Advanced History now remains available between sessions, allowing you to keep track of your edits even after closing PhotoLab. By default, the last 50 actions are saved (up to 250, configurable in Preferences).

This may be in response to many requests made also in this forum. However, it’s usefulness look questionable to me (to be kind). The editing history should be denoised first, as I pointed out many times before (e.g. concatenate quick corrections using mouse wheel into one). From my perspective, typical use case would be to experiment with different settings, going back easily without having to create a Virtual Copy. For that purpose one could use either a “denoised” history or an additional “checkpoint button”, which one could use to quickly revert to some previous state. What do you think? What would be your rationale for ‘Edit History’?

Under the hood, PL9.2 added a new table ‘HistoryEntries’ and added ‘CurrentHistoryEntryId’ column in the ‘Items’ table in the main database. The new table holds last actions only (up to 50 by default), so no new entries per Item, which could grow the database too much. On the other hand, its “persistence” is very limited. Lot of effort for no good reason, imho…

EDIT: To be sure, it’s a rather minor issue for me, not meant to distract DxO from maintaining the image processing engine. I’m a previous Capture NX and LightRoom user, which had similar features, sometimes used by me…

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I would welcome a situation where was asked if the new edits should be saved, added to the history list, when finishing editing. So i can just try things out without without being bordered to create a virtual copy.

George

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It’s pretty cumbersome and I assume you’d mess up any active History list, but could you copy/paste the .DOP file at the point where you want to save a “state”?

Then you can play around with it, delete the new .DOP file and replace it with the older saved state in order to “roll back”.

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History on Windows is NOT stored in DOP files but only in the database.

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And, “thank goodness” for that !! - - I certainly don’t want my sidecar/.dop files cluttered-up with all the individual trial-and-error steps I took in reaching my final correction result.

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I fully agree :slightly_smiling_face:… 20 characters required :thinking:

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