That is pretty strange, but it seems to work. You are correct that if I discard history (history is not discarded at this point), quit darktable, delete the Lightroom XMP file, restart darktable, and then open the image in darkroom I see that now the history has been discarded. I just now tried your workaround on one test file. It would mean opening individually tens of thousands of photos in darkroom and doing the compress history for each one manually.

Platform (please complete the following information): It should remove steps I add and also steps the Lightroom importer added.Įverything after step 11 in the above screenshots are operations that darktable tried to emulate from the Lightroom XMP sidecar file. I expect that discard history will remove everything except the mandatory steps. You will see that it does not discard the automatically created emulation steps. Import a Lightroom edited photo file with Lightroom XMP sidecar file. I would prefer to have the choice to only get the metadata, but selecting all my photos and using discard history for my ~120k photos would be acceptable. This issue (and related Lightroom XMP import issues) was discussed in this thread:Īs we know, it is impossible to do a good job trying to reproduce Lightroom editing so I don't want it but, naturally, I want all the metadata (tags, star ratings, color labels). It should remove those steps just like it does for ones explicitly added by the user. Discard history does not remove automatically created emulation steps when a photo file + Lightroom XMP file are imported.

Lighttable get rid from history