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Editing between PC & MAC, photoshop edits missing.

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February 23, 2023
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At the moment I'm working from two comptuers, my MacPro laptop and my new custom PC. I'll work on my laptop at my day job, then come home back up the catalog and copy it to my PC but when working on my PC after all my photoshop edits are gone.

On my Mac I'll *command E* to open the photo from lightroom to photoshop, do edits, save and it'll pop up as a "2nd" version of that photo in lightroom. On my Mac they're always there but when copying it to my PC the photoshop versions are alway missing and I can't locate the PSD files since it auto gets saved back into lightroom.

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Correct answer GoldingD

And notice the authors last bit

"and I can't locate the PSD files since it auto gets saved back into lightroom. "

Author is misunderstanding where the photos get filed, author is only copying the catalog, not the photos,not the exports.

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Sean McCormack

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The Photoshop files default to Tiff unless you've changed to PSD.. There's no reason to prefer PSD as Tiff does the same job, but is readable by more programs. These usually save to the same folder as the original file.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.

GoldingD

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Did you remember to copy your photos? Remember those photos are not in the catalog. Any new photos, such as a photo from PS created as a result of edit in PS, are not in the catalog.

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

Did you remember to copy your photos? Remember those photos are not in the catalog. Any new photos, such as a photo from PS created as a result of edit in PS, are not in the catalog.

By @GoldingD

Yup, that's what I was getting at when I asked how the photo library is synchronised between computers.

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

And notice the authors last bit

"and I can't locate the PSD files since it auto gets saved back into lightroom. "

Author is misunderstanding where the photos get filed, author is only copying the catalog, not the photos,not the exports.

Possibly, but let's wait from them to respond first.

Jim Wilde

Community Expert

Can you confirm which version (the version number) of Lightroom you are using.

How are you synchronising the images between the two computers?

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