Can I force the refresh of a file in darktable?

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I am not (yet) doing some forth and back workflow in darktable but also missed a refresh button for marked images many times, as there are race conditions which often make darktable miss an update after propagating changes by history copy-paste. I did not do a bug report as I do not have a way to reproduce this reliably though.

What I do then is to go to every missed image, open it in darkroom, switch off and on some module and go back to lighttable That’s not the cleanest way as it introduces history changes, but at least it updates the thumbnail. It’s a bit of extra work though, especially as sometimes more than 10 images are missed.

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The update script will work one time to update a thumbnail. Due to something internal with thumbnail generation, it wont work a second time and you have to restart darktable to get it to work again. I was working on chasing down the bug, and there is an issue, Can't drop cache more than 1 time for an image · Issue #18524 · darktable-org/darktable · GitHub. I’ve been busy on other projects lately, but that should finish up at the end of the month and I can get back to darktable stuff.

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