Rawtherapee ‘config’ files: where are they?

Software RawTherapee
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A reasonable response would be ‘RTFM’; I did, but didn’t find the info I’m looking for, which I’ll try to clarify:

Based on sound advice, mainly from this service, I am quite used to regularly backing up the files which darktable keeps as it’s ‘brains’ – i.e. all those in ~/.config/darktable (linux) or AppData\Local\darktable (Windows). I’ve started using RawTherapee a lot more recently and realised I needed to do comparable backups, but all I can find is in ~/.config/RawTherapee-AppImage (linux) or AppData\Local\RawTherapee (Windows). I find no equivalents to (for example) darktable’s data.db or library.db, darktablerc or luarc.

So where does Rawtherapee keep it’s equivalents – or are there none? Does it just load the sidecar file (.pp3) for each image singly, on demand? What else should I be backing up in rawtherapee (ignoring the images themselves)?

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I will given you my very limited understanding:

  • darktablerc is the options file
  • data.db there isn’t an equivalent
  • library.db there isn’t an equivalent as RT doesn’t keep a catalogue of your images
  • luarc there isn’t an equivalent as RT doesn’t use lua

I’ve installed RT via flatpak, so I backup ~/.var/app/com.rawtherapee.RawTherapee/config/RawTherapee

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From RawPedia - File Paths: location of config file

Personally, I keep a copy of the original install file and a copy of the config file (apart from my full system backup, that is).

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Precisely - that’s what I failed to find. Thank for the pointer.