Filter for images with auto applied camera styles but no manual processing?

Software darktable
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I’ve got a question re: filtering of images in darktable. I have version 5.0.1.

I have the auto apply camera styles script enabled, so after import all images have a camera style applied. Which is great and what I wanted!

But now it is hard for me to look for (or exclude) images that I have edited manually. In the history filter all images count as altered.

Is there a better way to search, or a way to have images that just had the camera style applied by script marked as “auto applied” for the purpose of the history search?

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In tagging module enable hidden tags ( darktable user manual - tagging ) and look for tags like darktable|style|% .
I’m not aware that autoapplied styles could be distinguished from manual applied styles.

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To make sure I understand, you’re looking for a way to distinguish which images that have auto applied styles have been edited further?

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Yes something like that is what I am looking for.

To be very specific, it is about finding out which images have (or have not) been touched after the initial import with or without auto-applied styles or other settings.

Come to think of it, could this be done time-based? Is there a way to find images which have been modified n minutes after the initial import?

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Oh I might have found a way:

I could modify the apply camera style script to delete the darktable|changed tag from the image after the style has been applied. I’ll try it sometime soon.

Any chances for negative side effects I am not seeing?

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From Lua only by checking xmp file timestamps. darktable doesn’t expose anything to Lua about modification times, though maybe it could…

Any chances for negative side effects I am not seeing?

I don’t think so.

Or, you could just add another tag of your choosing to the images you edit.