Couple of newbie points

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Firstly, about the list of Recent files and locations.
Suppose you import a single raw from a folder you haven’t accessed before, you navigate to the folder, find the raw, double-click it, and work on it. Now you want to export to the same folder. You click the “select directory” icon near “target storage”, then click “Recent”, hoping your folder is there. But it’s not, you have to navigate to it again. Or am I missing something?

XMP files
I like to have an XMP file safely stored away with my finished image. I know the raw XMP has all my settings at the point of export, but would it not be nice if dt output an XMP with the same file name as the exported image?

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You can have darktable include the xmp as a tag in the image itself (the option is ‘develop history’ in the settings icon next to the export button). N.B. this won’t work if your xmp exceeds 64k (Unreadable jpeg metadata fields when including develop history · Issue #4355 · darktable-org/darktable · GitHub) . The preferences option to compress xmp tags mitigates this to some extent.

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For exporting to the same folder: Just type in $(FILE_FOLDER)/your_filename in the field below “target storage”. If you also want the file name to be the same as the RAW, replace “your_filename” with $(FILE_NAME).

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Thanks guys.
I just tried dollar(FILE_FOLDER)/$(FILE_NAME) as the target and this is good - once in place it persists for the session I think, so just what I need.

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Don’t forget you can store presets in the export module if you need different path patterns for different images.

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Thank you for this!

And this!