macOS 27 golden Gate issues

[Gary Small]

I suppose this may be under review, but having just installed macOS 27 on my MacBook Pro M4 (pro), I was investigating Photos new “star ratings” (decades overdue). Naturally, Apple chose to NOT look at star ratings assigned by other apps, but I was wondering if Nitro could see star ratings assigned INSIDE the AP library. So far (in very limited testing) Nitro will not open a Golden Gate version AP library and defaults back to asking for File System folders.

So if this is resolved, should we anticipate whether Nitro will see the star ratings that AP recognize?

thanks….gary

[Nik Bhatt]

The next update to Nitro will have full support for Apple’s 10-year-overdue support for ratings (it was in iPhoto, for Pete’s sake). It’s in beta testing now. It’s quite complicated because Nitro already has ratings, and people may use Photos to set ratings, etc. But beta testers have used it and it seems to work fine.

[Gary Small]

Actually, Nitro is now opening AP library (after reboot). It is not seeing any star ratings in Apple Photos…whether the ratings were created in AP or have ratings in the metadata created in other apps (I suppose because AP does not recognized them).

Probably posted my earlier too soon, but the issue of what Nitro will recognize in the AP library module is still an open question (in my mind).

thanks. gary

[Gary Small]

Thanks Nik,

Yes, I see a conflict could exist between Nitro’s existing star ratings and those the Apple just included. I was pretty happy to have read that Apple was finally reintroducing star ratings, but I’m not sure if I see any value if they are silo’ed to internal AP only. My “crutch” has been to assign a keyword of “1_Star” (2,3,4 or 5) to photos with those actual “star” ratings to be able to filter accordingly in AP. Apparently, I will have to continue that practice and just ignore the fact that AP wants to have its own non conforming ratings…unless you are building some functionality into Nitro to make use of them.

thanks…gary

[Nik Bhatt]

Nitro will be able to read and write the ratings in Photos. It will be in the upcoming 2026.08 release. When you open that version of Nitro it will check to see if you have any Apple Photos ratings and walk you through how to synchronize them. If you tell Nitro to keep them in sync, then it will store ratings in the same place that Apple Photos does (and read them from there).

[Nik Bhatt]

It’s a tricky problem because there are two “truths” – theirs and mine.

[Steve Roberts]

Hi.

I just watched the new Youtube video on Raw9, which was very informative and helpful. Unfortunately none of my cameras are currently on the supported list, which Nitro provides.

The list of supported cameras on the apple website seems much longer (Digital camera RAW formats supported by version 27 of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS). I just wondered whether you are able to clarify the difference between these two lists. I know I am probably missing something obvious!

[Nik Bhatt]

The list on Apple’s site does not differentiate decoder versions. So, it includes cameras with V7, V8 or V9. You cannot tell if a camera has V9 support from that list.

[Steve Roberts]

Thanks for explaining that – it makes perfect sense now. Although my cameras are not currently supported, it is interesting to see from the latest version of Nitro which decoder is actually being used. I don’t know if there is much real difference between v7 and v8, but now understand that two of my cameras are using the former. Thanks again.

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