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marcw44162563
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April 6, 2022
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Bridge refusing to open a number of my NEFs in RAW ???

  • April 6, 2022
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Massive suprise ... as I've used Bridge for 12 years ... and by chance spotted a pile of my NEFs would not open in RAW via Bridge but individual ones would via Photoshop ... but didnt leave an XMP enabling the NEF to be opended in Bridge ???? 

I cant see any difference between the ones that still open via RAW on Bridge and the ones that refuse to open via RAW on Bridge so am at a complete loss .... its as if the NEFs or the XMPs that I can see still attached have some setting that somehow has been corrupted .... but the NEFs arre OK in Photoshop

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    gary_sc
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    gary_scCommunity Expert
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    April 6, 2022

    (thanks @Peru Bob )

     

    Hi Marc,

     

    First, whats' your OS (and what release)?

     

    Also, I want to make sure I understand: are you saying you cannot double-click one of your images and have it open in PS from Bridge, OR are you saying when you click on some of your images, the image does not display in Bridge.

     

    Let us know,

    marcw44162563
    marcw44162563Author
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    April 7, 2022

    MacOS Montterey Vesion 12.2.1 on Apple M1 Max 64GB Memory 

     

    I can see all the NEF images on the file in Bridge .... if I click on 80% of them then they offer me the option of Open in RAW .... but I'm left with 20% which only offer me the option of opening in Photoshop .... 

    I thought it might be something wrong with the XMPs that are attache .... but I experimented by deleting them .... and new XMPs are created ... but the NEFs still wont open in RAW   ...I can even add a rating to the images which I can see ... so its not the XMPs .. I think something must have altered within the NEFs themselves .... I've tried copying them it makes no differencer ... they will only open in Lightroom (which I dont want to use .... as I create between 80,000 and 120,000 images most years and historically dont believe in the Lightroom Libraries Concept) .... Happy to send you a one or two of the problematic NEFs to play with , with their sidecars (which make no difference) ... ??  I feel something has somehow corrupted these NEFs .... yet they open in Photoshop's version of RAW ????   

     

    Oh now thats even weirder ... I tried sending you MR2_0644.NEF and received a message back from this message's drop box saying it didnt correspond to its File Extension so wouldn't be sent to you ... I'm at a complete loss now as Photoshop and Lightroom Recognise it as perfectly valid to Open and Edit .... How on earth ???? 

     

    marcw44162563
    marcw44162563Author
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    April 7, 2022

    Perhaps I can email the NEF to you directly instead or failing that use WeTransfer 

    Peru Bob
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    Peru BobCommunity Expert
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    April 6, 2022

    I've moved this from the Using the Community forum (which is the forum for issues using the forums) to the Bridge forum so that proper help can be offered.

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