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Previews are located here: ‘~/Library/Containers/com.gentlemencoders.nitro/Data/Library/Caches’. There is a folder for the File System and one for the Photo Library (which is used only when the Photo Library cannot make its own previews). The ~ refers to your home directory.
Please do not make changes to this folder – it is for the app’s internal use.
The image’s name should appear when the app has finished indexing the directory. The only case I have seen when a file name doesn’t appear (other than indexing not being done) is for Shared Albums in the Photo Library. So if you have a case that doesn’t work, please email me so I can troubleshoot it.
The app only stores its previews on the startup disk. This is a limitation of the app. It might change with time, but I can’t promise it.
You can also clear the caches in Settings but it will build them again as it needs them.
I don’t have any current plans, but I can look into it. Making simulations is extremely time consuming since Fujifilm does not document how they make them.
Please email support@gentlemencoders.com and I can help you. The forum isn’t the best place for debugging these kinds of problems.
Yes. RAW Power can only open the system library and only the system library *CAN* be synched to iCloud (but it doesn’t have to be).
This is how you can do it:
1. Open your 100GB library in Photos.
2. Go to preferences and pick “Use as System Photo Library”. Photos will warn you that it will turn off iCloud Synching. That’s good – you want it to do that.
3. You can then open that library in RAW Power.
4. When you’re done, you can open the other library in Photos, tell Photos to use it as the System Photo Library, but then ENABLE synching.I can imagine this might give you pause. In that case, I suggest you run a test by creating a tiny library with one or two unique images (ones not found in your iCloud Photo Library) and following the above steps. If the tiny library isn’t merged into your iCloud Photo library, then you know that these steps will work.
Nitro uses the Photo library, and the Photo library only offers an “estimated” count. So, I could show that, but it would not always be correct. It’s possible to get the actual count, but that would impact performance. I will make a note – perhaps it can be added as a preference (with a note about performance).
Photos defaults to “JPEG on top” and has a feature in Edit to switch to the RAW on top. The file name Photos shows is always the JPEG, even when it’s showing the RAW.
Nitro defaults to the RAW, though it shows the JPEG image, since that is what Photos provides to it. In contrast, it always shows the RAW’s file name. It also has a feature to switch to the JPEG when editing.
So, both can edit either half of the pair. Photos is JPEG centric and Nitro is RAW centric.
If you want to switch in Nitro, the button is to the right of the “four way control” and right below the histogram. It only shows up if you have an R+J pair in Edit.I was able to get some more information about these files. They are indeed ProRAW files. The JPEGXL part is just the way they are compressed to save space. Yes, they also contain a JPEG as the preview.
These are weird files. They act like ProRAW images – my code shows the sliders for ProRAW (and regular RAW) and they seem to work too, so….hmm.
These files do NOT work on earlier OS versions (Ventura, for example is not supported).
This will no doubt cause a lot of havoc as people take shots with their new phones and cannot open them on their older Macs and devices.It’s not a RAW file, and it’s not a ProRAW file. It’s relatively new file format that is intended to replace JPEG. It seems that Apple is using the DNG format to hold the JPEGXL data (since DNG is a general purpose container and not a RAW-specific container). At this point I don’t have any tips – it should just work.
If you apply edits in RAW Power and send the CR2, you will get the CR2 without edits. That’s because there isn’t a way to send edit information between apps (Affinity doesn’t understand Nitro edits and vice versa).
If you send a TIFF (or JPEG, etc.) you will get a rendered image with the edits in Nitro applied.
If you are going to edit in Affinity, then send a TIFF from Nitro and have Affinity replace the TIFF with its own edits.
Image Stacking is not on the roadmap that I put on the website.
Unfortunately, the app doesn’t have a way to restart the trial. If you think you only need a few days, then sign up for a monthly subscription and then immediately cancel. It’s not free, but it’s only a few dollars, and there is no additional ongoing monthly cost if you cancel right away.
Also, if you are running into issues, please email them to me so I can help you. The address is support@gentlemencoders.com.
