Rotation not kept in dop’s why?

[Egregius ([Greg] (Micro 4/3 + Win11))]

Then I suggest following these threads, as they discuss at great length the very issue you have brought up:

DxO Photolab 5 Image Rotation Lost in Backups

I’m working with Photolab 5.1.1 build 52 on MacOS BisSur. When rotating an image from landscape to portrait, in .dop sidecar file then occurs a line “Rotation = 3,”. When the image and the sidecar are copied to e.g. another directory or a backup drive, and then moving in PhotoLab image browser to this directory, the rotation information is lost. The image shows up in landscape again, and looking into the .dop sidecar “Rotation = 0,” shows up. This has the effect that all rotation info is …

PL5: Moving files outside PL loses corrections and more

I have noticed errors in how corrections are handled in image files that are moved outside the confines of PL5. There appear to be several related problems: 1, not every correction to an image will cause all parameters to be flushed to its sidecar, even if automatic export is on. Presumably, they are written to the DB 2, if an image is moved, its path as known in the database is lost, so PL5 will import what it sees from the associated sidecar 3, PL5 does not recognize “Rating” as a sidecar p…

PL5 Tag Field not read from .dop file

Ok, so PL5 writes this information over here only into the database and not into the .dop files. As the files should indicate “green”. The .dop files gets updated but the information in question seems to allways been ignored when the file ist touched.

Hoping that helps.