[John Perry]

Thank you, Nik. A bit of assurance regarding adding GPS to RAW is helpful. I’ll certainly look at the various options for adding GPS data and do it at the front end of any processing sequence.

[John Perry]

Thank you for the replies and thoughts. I agree real-time GPS trackers seem to be too hard on batteries and add ‘faff’ and complexity. Which is why I end up back at ‘home-base in the processing stage trying to insert GPS coordinates into the picture file. Which is where I get to with the question, whether it is possible and/or desirable to add GPS data to the RAW file, or should I just accept it is a post-processing thing and either add location in Apple Photos or with Graphic Converter just before uploading/ publishing it to Photos. (I tend to keep Photos free of RAW files and use it as a means of delivery/publishing rather than processing)

So again thanks, and I suspect it just clunky as a process.
John.

[John Perry]

Thank you, Nik. I’ll keep thinking it through!! …and see if others have workflows that might help.

[John Perry]

Tx for looking into it, Nik

[John Perry]

Thank you Nik, for the reply. Just a couple of points;

1. There is consistency in that exported files that have no Finder thumbnail always have no thumbnail after repeated exports, and those that behave, consistently export with Finder thumbnails.

2. The problem appears with HEIF10; but both JPEG and HEIF8 export with Finder thumbnails.

3. All the files in Nitro are from scanned B&W prints and stored as 16bit greyscale TIFFs from which I am exporting processed versions.

(I have come back to this today, after rebooting my Mac and I am seeing what I saw yesterday… )

Best wishes,
John Perry

[John Perry]

Nik, great news, all looks promising! I am already playing with a use case I have been looking forward to.

Away from the desktop and home-base, taking photos. Use my iPad and an external SSD to initially work the shots I have taken. Then back to base, plug the SSD into the desktop machine and carry-on where I left-off whilst away. One happy bunny here so far…

Many thanks and well done!

[John Perry]

Multiple versions would be good to have, especially as I quite often want to explore and hold a B&W version of the picture without trashing the colour version…

So one thought that _seems_ to work is to make a symbolic link of the original raw file with a recognisable but slightly different name. Nitro seems to see this OK and proceeds to construct an XMP with the name of the symbol-link. This saves on having a copy of the (sizeable) raw file, but admittedly is a bit manual and not an elegant solution.

My question is whether I am building a nightmare for the future by playing it this way?

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