Extracting XMP from jpg...

Software darktable
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I am a bonehead.
I discarded the history on a photo that I just posted in the Capture Challenge thread unintentionally. I have tried loading the jpg as a sidecar. There is no error, but none of the modules I used are there.

I tried using exiftool using the following
exiftool -xmp -b -X filename.jpg >filename.ARW.xmp

Which gave me an XML format file but I get “error loading file”. I tried running dt with -d all…but I cant find an error listed (I do not know what I am looking for).

I also attempted to use exiv2 -e X filename.jpg but it behaves the same as trying to load directly from the jpg.

Flailing about, I went to my export preferences and “develop history” is NOT checked. I am assuming that for my history to be baked in to the jpg, that has to be checked? Which would mean, that I need to give up and start the edit over?

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Believe so.

Yes. But look at it as a chance to improve!

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I prefer my clouds without gilding :laughing:

Is develop history option un-checked by default? Or did I, at some point, decide to uncheck it for some unknown reason?

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darktable regularly creates backups of the database. It may be possible to restore the history of the affected image using one of these backups.

It’s checked by default.

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I forgot to mention that I went looking for a backup first, but because everything occurred so quickly, there was no bacckup that contained the image.

Thanks for letting me know what the default is. I really do not remember unchecking that box, but it does sound like something I might have done when I first started.