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Sidecar files : Migration from Windows to Mac

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  • Oliver Schaper

    Add-On Info : My photos are of different age of course - so some of them may be edited with Photo Raw 2017. Later I used 2018 on Windows and now lates 2018 version on Mac.

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  • Rick Sammartino Community moderator

    This is kind of scary if Photo Raw isn't reading it's own sidecar files. The whole point of sidecars is to keep your edits intact.

    As far as I know, if you select a photo and there is a sidecar for it, those edits should be loaded and added to the database. There should be no conversion needed.

    You could check the log (Help|Show On1 log) to see if there are errors.

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  • Oliver Schaper

    Tried to monitor Photo RAW activity with opensnoop. Unfortunately it does not show access to the sidecar files while being in browse mode. Of course it does when I enter develop mode as it overwrites the existing sidecar file.

    Hm, just wondering if this may be a Mojave based issue? Unfortunately I don´t know a Mac User with High Sierra and ON1 Photo RAW to test. Maybe I need to wait for the upcoming update.

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  • Rick Sammartino Community moderator

    i think you should just add all of these details to a support request and send it in. Don't forget to attach the log file.

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  • Oliver Schaper

    Yes, will do so. But I want to try out a few things before I do that.

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  • Oliver Schaper

    So, I guess I can mark this issue as solved somehow.

    All my edits are back and here is what I did:

    1) Removed my photo folder from indexed folders
    2) Wrote a shell script to recursively walk through the folders and use "touch" to make all sidecar files the same date as their corresponding RAW files.
    3) Added my photo folder back to indexed folders
    4) Waited for indexing to finish

    After that all my edits are visible again and the pictures that I edited as marked by the small icon in the lower right.

    I won´t call this an ON1 Photo Raw bug I think. I believe it maybe has to do with my recent update to Mojave without waiting for the appropriate update for Photo Raw. Who knows?

    Anyway I am happy that I have my edits back. :)

    Wish you all the best and take care!

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