darktable and LR/Fast Raw Viewer XMP Files

Software darktable
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It disappears or it becomes grey. (Then white.) (Usually both, disappears and becomes white.)

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Mica’s answer to your question is (still) correct
https://discuss.pixls.us/t/xmp-sidecar-files/1423/19?u=lebedevri
If some other software Y uses the exact same XMP scheme/tags/whatever as the lightroom, then you could use darktable’s rudimentary lr importer to partially mimic some of lr settings. And i do mean it, the conversion is not and never will be 1:1. Otherwise, no luck.

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Thanks! Still something to play with. Even if 1:1 conversion is not possible, but some of the settings (if converted correctly) can be re-used - not bad!

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Darktable and its sidecar files: is it documented?

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@hobo Please start a new thread and provide us a sample raw and FRV xmp.

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I have consolidated the cross-posts all based around the same question from @hobo (please don’t cross-post) into this thread, which is more on-topic and won’t veer other threads too far off-topic.

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Fantastic! Many thanks!

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Comment : give a chance xnview MP : it is fast viewing RAWs and brings some interesting features like bulk renaming, tagging, rating… A good complement of RT in a photo workflow
It is a free software available to all OS (you may want to move to Linux one day like I did after 15 years of MacOS ;-))

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I have and use xnview MP. Can you use its output as darktable input? What is supported?

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No sorry, misunderstanding from my side. The sentence was simply related to the XMP tags mention