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I thank Psenda and Walt Farrell for their helpful responses. The fact that the names of the contributing files are not stored in the EXIF section of the .afphoto HDR file seems to me an omission on Affinity Photo's part, since these files are the raison d'etre of the composite file. Nick Edwards 4 October 2020

I have Affinity 1.8.4 which works fine with my Mac OSX when using the HDR facility. My question is "Does the .afphoto file produced keep a record of the individual file names which were used generate the composite file, and is this information accessible?". I would comment that for a 300+ MB file size, one could reasonable expect this information to be readily available. Many apologies if I have missed it and the information is already there. Regards Nick Edwards 3 October 2020

I thank Old Bruce for his very helpful email and bow in deference to his much superior knowledge of software. Nick. 12 June 2020 13:57 BST

Very many thanks firstdefence for your speedy response. Your web suggestion works, of course, but I find I can only edit one .RAF file at a time. It is s good job I haven't got hundreds of files to change!!! From my viewpoint, the automatic attachment of the Affinity Photo icon to imported RAW Fujifilm camera files loaded into the folder of the MAC environment is extremely unwelcome. After loading my files from my camera into my MAC, it is not as though I have asked Affinity Photos to do any operation at all! The only solution I think which is open to me is to unload Affinity Photo from my applications, and leave it on "the sidelines" somewhere until such time that Affinity Photo has rectified what I believe is interference with my imported files. If my assumptions are wrong, I would welcome a correction, but loading Affinity Photos appears to have a trap-door mechanism with RAW files which eternally locks you to its own brand of software. Thanks Nick 12 June 2020 14:40 BST

I have a Fujifilm X-E3 camera. When I import RAW files (.RAF) directly by hardwire from my camera into a folder onto my MAC, the purple coloured coloured Affinity icon square is somehow automatically attached to the file name. I want to stop this happening, because when I try and look at the same raw file using Fuji's SILKYPIX, I cannot open it. It causes an error. I can, however, open up old RAW files which I took before I purchased [recently] Affinity Photo. Hence, how do you stop Affinity Photo from attaching its purple icon to RAW file names, even though one hasn't explicitly invoked any of the Affinity tools? Is it something in the Affinity Preference set-up which should be turned off? Thanks Nick. 12 June 2020 13:15 BST

Very many thanks, emmrecs01 - the list linked to 1.8.0 beta was very useful and informative. Nick 25 April 2020

I am very interested in possibly purchasing Affinity Photos (Mac version) to support my use of Fujifilm's X-E3 camera, which gives .RAF (RAW) compressed and uncompressed files as well as jpg files. I notice that the sircarlphil / Lee D discussions occurred in early November 2017. Have there been any developments in Affinity Photo's software in its ability in handling Fujifilm compressed and uncompressed RAW (RAF) files since that time? Nick. 24 April 2020