- exactly the same here
- with all 3 files still selected
→ applied Ctrl + Z for a second time
→ now also reverts B
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You all are thinking about a single level of undo… this is very simplistic.
If you select a group of images and do an edit, then go select a single image and do another edit, and THEN realize you were acting on a group, when, for example you changed the crop window and reset all crops for all of your images. Pressing undo twice should allow you to undo that mistake. Two actions, undo twice…
Anyway I’m out. Y’all know what I’m looking for. If you don’t need it don’t vote for it…
The simple fact is that undo stacks only work on the current selection. Changing selection purges the stack
On mac. Not on windows.
It’s just not very clear what you mean. What do you mean with “THEN realize you were acting on a group”. You did select a single image so you can’t edit a group. Or do you mean the first edit?
If you selected the group by a color tag just reactivate that group and do your undoing. If you’re on windows. And if not complain to DXO that the mac is different from windows and they should make it equal. And hopeful equal to windows 
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I’m not favoring to make an old selection active again.
George
The first edit.
Sometimes you don’t realize you were working on a selection of images until you switch to the second image and realize you screwed up the crop on a whole bunch of images.
This has happened to me a number of times over the last few years.
And if not?
You’ve made that perfectly clear.
I am.
Again like I said previously if you want to reverse changes one image at a time there is always the advanced history panel.
That’s why this is in the feature request section. I’m asking for an improvement in the behavior.
I’m asking for the undo feature to actually act as an undo of the previous actions in the order in which they were taken. Not reversal of the edits in the current selection.
It should be possible (though completely excessive, to do 2 hours of edits on a whole gallery, and then press control Z over and over to undo all the steps taken in reverse order and have the image edits as they were when the program launched. Again I’m not saying this itself is an actual use case, but this is what a good undo implementation looks like.
Consider multiple undos in a program like microsoft word or microsoft excel.
And now you’re making your problem my problem by going back and re-activating a selection. That’s something I don’t want. That’s not the solution.
Find a workflow for yourself so you can undo your mistake within the possibilities of pl. By using color tags or something like that. But don’t forget to (un)set the filter 
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I still don’t know, are you on mac?
George
Actually I’m not.
Since you don’t keep track, you’re looking at the advanced history anyway. So use the advanced history panel as you already do, and nothing changes at all.
You’re really hating on an issue that really doesn’t affect the way you use PL. I think you’re hating on it just to hate on it. Anyway I’m not gonna engage with you about it anymore. You opinion is clear and I’m not trying to change your mind.
Hi @John-M Yes, this behaviour does work on Windows, ut unfortunately it doesn’t on a Mac.
Have a quick watch of the two short videos I shared in post #50 of this thread to see the Undo behaviour difference with PL5 on the two OSes.
In my opinion, the way it works on Windows is the preferable solution.
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I guess one of the keys is to make this work beyond one level of undo with multiple (varying) selections.
It does. You can undo untill the history list is empty. On win.
You still didn’t mention what os you have.
George
Confirmed. The undo stack can keep track of many things, but some break the connection, which will show with a greyed-out undo entry in the menu. In the case of selecting files, a broken connection cannot be re-established as far as I’ve tested it.