Why are my Nikon photos copying from Photos on my Mac as "UNADJUSTEDNONRAW" files?
Asked 1/20/2018
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I shoot with a Nikon D5300 and transfer images to my MacBook Air, then copy them to an external hard drive and OneDrive so I can use them at home and at school. When I copy some images from my Mac, they end up with names like "UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_e00a.jpg" instead of the original camera-style filename. Why is this happening, and what’s the correct way to transfer/export them so the filenames stay normal?
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Photography Stack Exchange contributor
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I believe you are importing the photos to Apple's Photos app and then copy and pasting them out, rather than exporting or draging them.
I did a quick screen recording (can we embed these? I feel like I should know) to show the point: in this video you can see that dragging the photos out works, but copy and pasting gives the results you describe.
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This usually happens when the images were imported into Apple Photos and then copied out the wrong way. If you copy/paste from within Photos, it can create exported derivative files with names like "UNADJUSTEDNONRAW..." instead of keeping the original camera filename.
To avoid it:
- drag the files out of Photos instead of copy/paste, or
- use Photos’ export option to export the originals.
If you want to keep the exact original Nikon files and filenames, the safest workflow is to copy them directly from the memory card to your external drive/OneDrive before importing them into Photos, or export the unmodified original files from Photos.
So the issue is most likely not your Nikon settings, but the way macOS Photos is handling the files during copy/export.
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