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Participant
August 12, 2025
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Ratings not importing from PhotoMechanic

  • August 12, 2025
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Over the past couple weeks, my star ratings aren't importing when I pull my images over from PhotoMechanic. This has never been an issue before. The ratings are showing up in PM, but when imported in LR, there is no rating. Really hoping to find a solution soon as this is how I sort my sneak peeks quickly from wedding days and sessions, and I can't go through re-rating over a 1000 images every wedding.

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johnrellis
Legend
August 12, 2025

We'll be able to sort this out. But rather than tossing you possible solutions, let's get more detail first.  

 

1. Are the files being rated by PM raw or JPEG?

 

2. Where are the files being rated stored?  On the Mac's home drive "Macintosh HD", on another directly connected disk, or on a network volume (aka network drive aka NAS)?

 

3. If you're rating raws, have you set the Photo Mechanic option Preferences > Files > File Extensions: Use Lowercase Extensions?