My camera creates both RAW and JPEG photos. Normally I delete the JPEG photos before importing. Today I forgot to do that. Now the photos on the card are deleted, and it seems that I only have JPEG images in my Photos library.
To test this I created two smart albums, one with only RAW, one with no RAW – effectively JPEG only. The last photos are only found in RAW, not in the JPEG album. Why is that? I can't find a setting to prefer RAW either.
Why would Photos ignore the RAW files, while it's obvious that these are preferred?
Best Answer
If you see a
Jin a square on the top right of the image, you're using the JPEG image. You can change this to RAW using the following steps:editbuttondoneYou will now see an
Rin a square instead of theJ. You have to do this for each image, can't do it for all at once.