More "undo" support for metadata changes

[esambo]

Feature: Metadata Undo

In order to undo safeguard my metadata
As a user making accidental mistakes
I want to have multiple undo/redo for metadata modification on multiple photos

Scenario: Accidentally updating rating instead of color
Given I select several photos with different ratings
When I set the rating
Then I want to be able to undo the last change
And see my photos with different ratings

GraphicConverter 10 offers this kind of multiple undo/redo support for rating, which is very, very helpful, because I sometimes remembered my keyboard shortcuts wrong on how to set the rating vs color labels, which overwrites the wrong kind of metadata.

[esambo]

I really wish that I could undo my last action, like applying something like the following to a selection of photos:
- tag
- rating
- color label
- etc.

[phrank]

i also really wonder about the missing functionality.

what does UNDO at all in Photo Mechanic? it's greyed out most of the time anyway…

[Kirk Baker]

i also really wonder about the missing functionality.

what does UNDO at all in Photo Mechanic? it's greyed out most of the time anyway…

Mostly just text fields.  When you make metadata changes, the files are updated immediately.  To undo them would require modifying them back to what they were before they were updated.  For some file formats, the file would never be restored to its unmodified state, it would just make the file now have new values (for instance a tag that is false, when no tag existed before.)

-Kirk

[phrank]

@Kirk

Thanks for the explanation.

I still missing this feature. As written from the other guys here.