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OK, just saw your edit.
Please check the following on the new folder and compare that to the old folder:
In the Finder select one of the new folder(s) that you're documents/images are contained in and press Command-i (i for information). A new window will pop up on the left side of the screen. On the bottom you will see a region called "Sharing & Permissions:"
First, do you have Read & Write privileges ? If not, continue.
To do anything here, you need to unlock the padlock on the bo
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Well I'm trying to help so please do not get pissed at me. ;>)
I have to admit that what you are describing makes no sense (I belive you, so do not worry, I'm just trying to understand it and I can understand why you'd be pissed).
OK, but let's take this one step at a time. When you talk about the Calibration Version, are you referring to changing the Process Version here?
Let me explain what that is there for any what is happening when you change it.
You said that you have old and newer raw images. Let's say you have some old raw images that were processed in Version 2. At the time, Version 2 was the latest-greatest way that Adobe had to interpret raw images. But that was then, things have gotten better. So they make Version 3, then 4 and now Version 5 is their latest-greatest. However, if they had ACR set so that whenever you opened up an old image it would automatically update all of your images, it changed all of your settings, you'd be REALLY pissed especially if you were a professional photographer who was asked by a client to provide some duplicates of an image.
So what Adobe did was to maintain access to those older versions so that anyone can always maintain the settings that were last done on any image. If you change the Version #, you will have to readjust the image. That's it, there's no way around that. Different input means differant adjustments to accomodate those changes.
Now, I'm going to guess that you do not convert your images to DNG format and all of your images have sidecar files, correct? Please let me know because I have a guess for what's happening going on here but need to find out before I venture further.
Also, can you tell me where the files are being kept. Internal drive, external drive?
OK, just saw your edit.
Please check the following on the new folder and compare that to the old folder:
In the Finder select one of the new folder(s) that you're documents/images are contained in and press Command-i (i for information). A new window will pop up on the left side of the screen. On the bottom you will see a region called "Sharing & Permissions:"
First, do you have Read & Write privileges ? If not, continue.
To do anything here, you need to unlock the padlock on the bottom right. Click it and a window will pop up asking you for your authorization (your Mac password). Once that's done, click on the "Everyone" and on the right change "Read only," to "Read & Write."
Now, if there are folders inside this, go to the dropdown gear below and select "Apply to enclosed items..." and you can save yourself some time.
HOWEVER: be judicious when you do this. This should ONLY be done if there are nothing but documents inside these folders. Never EVER do this if there are applications or preferences or other application-related files. Don't ask me how I know this to be true. Otherwise, I do this all the time as necessary.
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