EOS R6 - RAW Images are showing up as Jpegs on my hard drive-no I do not shoot in jpeg

[ashleemassey]

Hi! I have a Canon EOS R6. I shoot in RAW (only, no jpeg). When I plug my SD reader/SD Card into my MacBook Air and open the photos app, it shows that the images are RAW. But when I drag them to a folder in my external hard drive, it shows up as a jpeg on my hard drive. I didn’t catch this before I edited photos and have sent off 3 galleries. I edit my photos in light room classic. Will my clients have a hard time blowing up photos? Do I need to completely re edit all of the photos? I’m panicking! 

[ashleemassey]

thank you so much for responding and taking the time to offer advice! 

I finally found the problem! 

I shoot in RAW only. When I was importing to my MacBook, I was doing so in the apple photos app, which seemed to be changing them to JPEGS. However, when I opened them in the finder app in my laptop and transferred to my external hard drive from there, they stayed as CR3 files! Hooray!

[stevet1]

Ashlee,

I'm so happy you found the answer.

I hope you have many happy hours in your photography future.

Steve Thomas

[shadowsports]

Hi,

What version of MAC OS are you running.  Version and build?

[Waddizzle · Accepted solution]

“  I opened the photos app in my MacBook to import the photos. Maybe I need to use a different app to import them to?  “

The act of importing the images into the Photos app is probably the entire problem.  You should copy the files from the memory card to your external drive.