Suddenly when I import photos from my Canon G7 where I have two format in my camera; jpg and raw nowadays LR classic suddenly has started to make both jpg and raw-files to Dng-files when importing photos. I dont like that and I dont want that! I want my jpgs to stay jpg and my raw files to be dng. As it was earlier. Anyone knows why this is like this? How to fix it. I have done nothing but maybe some bug or something?I have Macbook pro and latest version of LR classic.kind regards Jenny

jennycfotograf

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Suddenly LR Classic start to change jpg format to dng when importing photos!

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August 19, 2025
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Suddenly when I import photos from my Canon G7 where I have two format in my camera; jpg and raw nowadays LR classic suddenly has started to make both jpg and raw-files to Dng-files when importing photos. I dont like that and I dont want that! I want my jpgs to stay jpg and my raw files to be dng. As it was earlier. Anyone knows why this is like this? How to fix it. I have done nothing but maybe some bug or something?

I have Macbook pro and latest version of LR classic.

kind regards Jenny

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JohanElzenga

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Look at the top center of the import dialog. You selected 'Copy as DNG' instead of 'Copy'.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

jennycfotografAuthor

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Yes but I havent changed anything regarding settings I have had copy as dng for ages anf when I import from my Canon G7 LR has always only made dng from the raw files and let the jpgs stay untouched. Exactly as I want. And this worked fine until end of Jluy this year but now it suddenly make dngs from both jpgs and raw files. I thought it is a bug maybe? And on my Nikons I only have raw files so it is only on this G7 I have noticed this!

JohanElzenga

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I honestly don't know if Lightroom is supposed to convert JPEGs to DNG if you shoot jpeg and choose 'Copy to DNG'. It doesn't really make sense to do this, so perhaps this is indeed a bug. Another possibility is that it's not a bug, but the explanation is as follows. Do you shoot raw+jpeg with the Canon? In the Preferences you can enable a checkbox to 'Treat JPEGs next to raw files as separate photos'. Maybe you did not have that checked in the past (so the JPEGs were not copied as DNG), but now it is checked (perhaps the update changed this setting) so now they are copied as DNG.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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