P: I want to cull ALL 'Published' and 'Exported' records from History

The History feature is superb in that it allows you to step back to an earlier stage in your workflow on an image and take a different direction from there.

However, it has always mistified me, right from when I started using Lightroon on a PC about 15 years ago, why 'Publish' and 'Export' events are recorded. Yes, they record that you did something with the image ... but not that you did something that changed the image. And if you step back to before those events, you don't suddenly un-publish or un-export the image!

They are fundmentally different, and for me personally, they are about as useful as a chocolate teaptot! I find them useless, inappropriate, dead wood bloat.

I have processes that I run repeatedly for many Collections, which Export or Publish e.g. high-res JPGs of all of the images they contain. So thousands of my images have dozens of useless History entries.

So, please give us two small features:

1) A Preferences tick box that selects whether I do or do not want to include events that do not change the image in my History.

2) A command that allows me to delete all such "nothing changed" records from the History of every image currently selected. I don't care if it takes hours to run - I'll only do it once on each catalog, and then my "never create any more such records" tick-box selection will kick in from now until the end of time 🙂