[TN Args]

You might want to download any that interest you…I forgot to mention it is in a temporary cloud folder. cheers

[TN Args]

Here is an example from Darktable.

This screenshot is of the Viewer (aka lighttable) showing three versions of file _A7R9054.ARW. Each has a different star rating and appears as an image in the Viewer table.

This screenshot is of the Editor (aka darktable), showing each version on the left with its own label, named by me.

I was wrong to say that Darktable stores multiple edits in one sidecar file. Each edit has its own sidecar file. Successive edit sidecar files are named filename_01, filename_02 etc.

Here are the three Darktable sidecar files for the three versions of the above-mentioned image.
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Hope this is useful.

cheers

[TN Args]

Thanks, found it. All this time using the App Store and never saw that list under In-App Purchases!

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Thanks, that’s mostly very promising for me. Now to try Nitro!

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What is the lifetime price? I can’t see ANY of the prices from looking at the Apple Store item description.

[TN Args]

OK I will further this via email.

But, for the public forum, what is the advice for everyone to note? If they feel they need to reinstall the app but don’t want to lose all their edits, ratings, and folder organisation in Raw Power?

[TN Args]

Thanks for re-entering this thread Nik.

Don’t forget to look at the batch crashing that the OP mentioned and I confirmed.

I can’t even batch export to JPEG for a batch of more than 10 images — it just crashes. It almost makes RP unusable.

I am using the top model 2020 iPad Pro, so really shouldn’t be the machine’s limits to blame.

Cheers

[TN Args]

I am using 3.2.4

I have also had the batch crashing that the OP reported. Small batching does help.

I think there could be a link between the crashing and the Levels tool. Maybe Nik can look at this @nik

Why do I say this? Well, I was running auto-enhance (on one image at a time) and quite often getting a totally black image. I soon found that this was happening because the Levels tool was choosing crazy settings — typically with the high, mid and low markers on the bottom axis all crushed to the left end of the scale. And if I try to correct the totally black image manually, after a couple of adjustments on the Levels tool, Raw Power crashes.

I have now turned off, in Settings, the option to use Levels in Auto-Enhance. No more black images.

If the Levels tool is crashing the app when manually adjusted, as I have noticed, then it might also be behind the batch crashing. But I haven’t tested this theory.

So, Nik, a couple of things to maybe look at. 1. Auto Enhance with Levels giving crazy settings in Levels and a pitch black photo. 2. Crashing when playing with Levels tool (especially after it makes a totally black image in auto mode).

Cheers

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by TN Args.

[TN Args]

Thanks to Erik and Nick for the replies.

Erik: my iPad Pro is 1 TB, so it has more storage than any cloud account I want to pay for. I will use the cloud for showcasing and portfolios, but not for total photo file keeping.

Nick: my MacBook Pro died and I bought this new iPad Pro as a laptop replacement. I am aware that some simplifying is part of the deal, and that’s okay, hence I will give One Big Folder a try and see how it goes with the ‘smart’ tagging and catalogs/albums and search ability of Apple Photos, along with RP for raw editing and Affinity Photo for layer work. My big concern now is what do I do when the iPad fills up (and how to delay that point by not dupli-triplicating all my photos on the iPad any more than I have to.

I admit that I listened to the talk about iPadOS having file management and external drive access, and made a big mistake thinking that meant more freedom for where my photos can reside and be available to apps, than seems to be the case, at least as of today.

So I am learning the hard way, and I am in up to my neck now, so there’s no going back and I just want to make the best I can of the situation. I do need some help with advice from those more familiar with the limitations and abilities of the various apps, and I really appreciate the support I am getting.

[TN Args]

OK thanks for your thought-provoking reply, Nick. Nice to hear it explained from someone who knows the ins and outs and whys. (Although, when I used LR on desktop, the photos themselves were not copied into the catalog/container file — although I suppose you are talking about LR iOS, which I never looked into.)

What would your advice be for me, given the intentions I have outlined? Forget the dream for the moment. What approach to take that is iPad based, today, where I have a raw processor (RP!), a photo manager (Photos?), and a way forward when the iPad fills up? With the minimum of dupli-triplication other than what is unavoidable. I need to get started, but I clearly have started the wrong way. I don’t want to go too far down the wrong path.

I’m not fixated on the folder structure I outlined. Anything will do, even one big folder. (I always remember the time management expert in the late 90s, telling us all to Please Stop Making a Million Folders In Outlook and Sorting All Our Emails Into Them. Just leave them in the inbox and rely on the good search tools to find what you want. I’m cool with that. And I see Photos as analogous.) I just got really nervous when I realised Photos App doesn’t show photos I have separately loaded onto iPad — I can’t even see how to import from an iPad directory of my choice into Photos App — and I couldn’t find the Photos library in Files App, so where are my raw files if I want to move them? Then I saw the RP copy of Originals, and realised I am out of my beginner-status depth.

Would your advice be something like this: Don’t copy the camera card photos direct to my chosen directories. Instead, use Photos App to import them, then select photos in Photos App and open RP to process as per the RP manual. Anything I want to work with in Affinity or other apps, open from within Photos App. (This much I kind of already gathered from reading your article on Photos and JPEGs and raw files. If I do this, it seems to mean my original raw files will be in Photos library, not duplicates, but a full set of duplicates will be in RP’s Originals folder — correct?). I don’t mind that method, except, what do I do when the iPad fills up, and I need to move the photos to external storage and release a huge amount of space on my iPad for the next half-year-or-so of photography?

Or am I wrong and you have a better suggestion, please?

Cheers

[TN Args]

I assume the iOS version is not so processor-intensive?

[TN Args]

Thank you Nik. It is clearly a problem getting something like Aperture/LR up and going.
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