Problems on export/import of auto-applied presets

I’m unsure wether it is a bug or my mistake - can anyone confirm this behaviour:

As I’m using the same version of dt (3.8 stable) on two different Ubuntu installations I wanted to export/import all my module presets. After the import process the presets are all visible but all “auto apply” configurations do not work anymore. It seems that some parts of the configurations get lost - i.e. the maximum ISO, focal length etc. which is the visible difference. But what bothers me is that they do not get auto-applied even the checkbox “auto apply…” is ticked.

When I select the imported preset and delete/recreate it, everything works fine. But I’d like to avoid this procedure for each and every one of them.

Do I have to take care of anything special when importing?

(btw. this is the second time I encountered this issue, last time I exchanged presets between an Ubuntu and a Windows installation of dt and it was still pre-stable so I was unsure wether this was the root cause… but now we are on 3.8 stable and both are Ubuntu based dt installations)

If you don’t use tagging, you could probably just copy the data.db database. If you do use tagging, though, this would overwrite your tag dictionary.

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I’ve seen this too, though I didn’t put a lot of thought into it at the time. When I created a new 3.9 branch I exported all my 3.7 presets and imported them into 3.9 and the auto applies didn’t work. The only way to make them work was to delete and recreate the preset.

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Thank you Chris, I used that workaround now. Looks good - but the root problem remains.

@wpferguson , I’ll try my best…

done…

But, do you want auto-apply information stored in exported styles? Not fun if you import a style which has auto-apply settings that don’t fir with your images…

I thought we were talking about presets here. I agree this is probably not required for styles.

Sorry about the necro, but this was brought up in My Darktable Customization - #18 by Roland_Rainer.

I’ve exported all my presets on Ubuntu, current master, imported them into Windows 4.9.0+419~g9ba5a0641c (a few weeks old). The were imported OK. I only have two auto-applied presets, (turning on lens correction and setting color calibration to as shot in camera), and those are applied to all raw images, so there is no filter on ISO or any other params. They both work on the Windows machine.

ps. I was also able to simply copy over my shortcutsrc. I then tested a single-key shortcut as well as complex ones (Ctrl+Alt+F+scroll, Shift+Alt+F+scroll - which I used to adjust filmic rgb contrast in shadows / highlights settings), and everything worked on Windows the same way as it does on Linux. This is with Hungarian keyboard layout on both systems.