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NatalieWW
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June 26, 2020
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Importing Sidecar Files

  • June 26, 2020
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I am backing up a series of photos from CDs to an external hard drive (Mac). Suddenly, I'm seeing all the sidecar files with athe Apple Photos icon in the files. This has not happened before. Should this happen?

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Correct answer Nancy OShea

I don't use a Mac but this sounds more like a question for Apple.  Or whichever app was used to create the images, keywords, etc...

 

 

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Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 26, 2020

It's harmless.  Your device is associating those image files with Apple Photo.  You can tell your OS to re-associate those file types to another app of your choice -- Photoshop, Lightroom, etc...   If you're not sure how, Google it for your particular OS.

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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NatalieWWAuthor
Inspiring
June 28, 2020

Thanks. I guess I should have been more specific. I'm using Bridge on a Mac (Catalina). I noticed these Apple Photo logos as sidcar images on an import and then deleted them from the Bridge library, which I guess wasn't a good thing to do since all my keywords associated with the images went away. Anyway, I was able to drag all the sidecar images back from trash into my library and all is good now. But here's thing thing: These sidecar images only appear in the import of about 100 images in a thumbnail view. If I deselect Show Hidden Files, I don't see the sidecar images. Should I worry? I hate to think I've entered all these keywords and all that work is going to just disappear!

Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
June 28, 2020

I don't use a Mac but this sounds more like a question for Apple.  Or whichever app was used to create the images, keywords, etc...

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Peru Bob
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Peru BobCommunity Expert
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June 26, 2020

This is  the poorly named Community Help forum (which is the forum for issues using the forums).
Please tell us what Adobe application you are using so that this can be moved to the proper forum for help.

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