Hidden RAW files in Photos

Sorry to piggyback/bump this thread, but sInce "upgrading" to Photos I've noticed that the RAW files downloaded from my camera (Panasonic FZ150) are no longer findable anywhere on my computer (2011 mac Mini, OSX 10.10.3)! In iPhoto they were in the Masters folder within the apps Package Contents folder. But there is no corresponding Masters folder for Photos. Inexplicably though, the Photos info panel file name for each image contains a .RAW suffix. So if I'm actually importing RAW files and editing them as such before exporting as JPEGs, what is happening to the original RAW files? I want to keep them but a Finder search turns up nothing.

While I'm at it, how can I restore iPhoto if I need/want to? I had version 9.6 before installing Photos, but I can longer launch it, or find a newer version to download/install. Thanks for any help you can offer.

the RAW files are in your Photos library - direct access is not and never was supported

You can use the RAW as the original by selecting a stacked image, clicking edit and under the image menu selecting use RAW as original

You can find al RAW images with a smart album - Photo is RAW

You can go back to iPhoto by launching it from you applications folder if you have version 9.6.1 installed - if you do not see Why won't my iPhotos open?

LN

M@C@M - I can't tell you where to find them, but you can "Export Unmodified Originals" which will give you the selected RAW files in an external directory (and also the JPG, if you have taken RAW +JPG on your camera and imported both).

Hope that helps.

TED

I have the same problem: "use RAW as original is not highlighted!

What to do to solve this problem?

janfromoudenburg wrote:

I have the same problem: "use RAW as original is not highlighted!

What to do to solve this problem?

As noted above in this thread, you have to have the JPEG half of a RAW+JPEG image pair active in Edit mode to have this option active, and it only affects that pair.

Thx a bunch. It worked.. I needed to be sure to press the "Edit" button when I opened the JPEG file. Happy to see I did not have to run a SW app to convert the "raw" file.