Deleting Versions, BatchQs and Freezes

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ASP 1.2.0.7 -- Xubuntu 12.10 & 13.04 -- no OpenCL available.

hi..

"Zombie XMP will kill your CPU"

that was the headline for your yellow press paper. now lets get a little more specific.

if you delete a version, then only line 9 of the xmp will be updated:

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   dmf:versionCount="1">

the xmp will carry along ALL of the old settings as a zombie with it, even with more versions and so.
some of those can be re-used, making the xmp not grow.

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 if newVersionCount > CurrentMaxVersion then use (CurrentMaxVersion + 1)

and here comes the bad part, somewhat unscientific, but very very predictable and annoying:
if you run a batch the more zombie-settings are in your files, the more likely aftershot will freeze.

rendering previews, editing, etc seems to be unaffected.
which is really really devious because you can work for hours adjusting images, then send to batch, sigh of relief, go for a drink, came back later and not much happened except for a computer running on full throttle doing nothing.

if i remember correctly this bug with the zombie-xmp-data has been around for ages. but somehow 1.2.0.7 managed a dawn of the dead. someone wants to lend my shotgun?

PS: you can clean up the messy data by hand, or never delete versions and everything will be fine.