I was working with photos I have downloaded from the cloud. Sorting them into folders for a project, I must have hit something that has suddenly put a J in the upper left hand corner of each photo on the screen. Now I am unable to scroll through the photos and the screen remains on the photos I was viewing when this "magic" happened. How do I get it to function again?
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iMac 27″, macOS 10.15
This could be the jpeg part of a RAW+JPEG file. If that's it, then in the Image Menu you should see, near the bottom, Use RAW as original.
I don't understand why this would, apparently, crash Photos, but it seems to have done that. Try going to the Apple icon on the left of the Menu bar, and choose Force Quit... Then choose Photos, and restart the app. See if that fixes things.
If that doesn't work, try these:
Let us know what you find…
This could be the jpeg part of a RAW+JPEG file. If that's it, then in the Image Menu you should see, near the bottom, Use RAW as original.
I don't understand why this would, apparently, crash Photos, but it seems to have done that. Try going to the Apple icon on the left of the Menu bar, and choose Force Quit... Then choose Photos, and restart the app. See if that fixes things.
If that doesn't work, try these:
Let us know what you find…
I had shut it down. Getting back into it this morning, it came up in the same place I was working on. I changed one to RAW, the system seems to be working now and letting me scroll. Does it hurt to leave the others as a J? there are about a dozen that it put the little icon on. Now that I changed the one to R, it also has a corner designation while all my other photos do not. I'm curious as I work to put these into a "book" will it make a difference in the printing? If not, I'll leave it alone...obviously I'm not a pro at this.
Thank you so much for your prompt help!!
The camera makes the jpeg from information included in the RAW data, so the images may look just the same. The RAW data gives more flexibility in reducing noise in low light images and stuff like that. If you really want to spend time tweaking pictures to get the very best rendition, then RAW is your thing (but then you probably use a more expensive picture editor!) But the whole point of RAW is to produce a good jpeg file, and the camera usually does a pretty good job generating the jpeg image on its own. And Photos is pretty OK at tweaking the jpeg without using the RAW data.
So, jpeg is fine. When you export your work, you'll turn it into jpeg images, anyway. People don't exchange RAW files; they exchange jpegs.
If Photos crashes again, just force quit. If it happens a lot, check back.
Is this OK?
Photo display issue with 'J' in the corner on iMac?
