[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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