Affinity Photo "owning" Capture One files

[ourisman]

I have been encountering a perplexing issue, and the attached screenshot will illustrate the problem. I've tried doing what *should* work in allowing a file to be opened once again by Capture One, but I can't *lose* Affinity's claim on it.

When I "edit in" Affinity Photo to do a HDR merge, Focus merge, Panoramic stitching, or "liquify," Affinity seems to seize ownership of every CR3 raw file in the session's Capture folder. In other words, Affinity removes the CaptureOne icon and ownership and replaces its own icon for the file. Once it has unhelpfully done this, CaptureOne can't open the file again.

You can see in the screenshot that every file has an Affinity icon — and CAPTURE ONE CANNOT SEE THESE FILES.

I tried the obvious step — you can see it in the "info" window to the left of the screen shot. The "Open With" application is set to Affinity Photo. I tried to change it back to Capture One, but it wouldn't "take."

The problem persists. See what's at the right hand of the window. Right-clicking on one of the files (which still has an Affinity icon) and choosing "Open With" from the drop down menu, Affinity Photo is still identified as the "default" application ... and Capture One is not given as an option.

How can I fix this so that I can "edit with" Affinity Photo but still retain the ability to access the file through Capture One? Affinity Photo is behaving very selfishly when it sees a Raw file.

[v_kyr]

Well, those are iCloud stored files and the Affinity apps are known to have some problems with accessing/using/writing on cloud based storage places. You should try instead to work with your RAWs for Affinity Photo on a local SSD/HDD storage place.

[stokerg]

Hi @ourisman,

If you select Open With>Other you should get a window pop up showing you the Applications Folder.  Here select Capture One but before clicking Open, put a tick in the box Always Open With.  That should assign your RAW files back to Capture One.

[thomaso]

... or press the "Change All..." button in a file's info window:

[ourisman]

These are helpful suggestions, but my OS thinks CaptureOne is an "unidentified develop" (as I purchased directly from C1 and not from Apple's App Store.

[v_kyr]

1 hour ago, ourisman said:

These are helpful suggestions, but my OS thinks CaptureOne is an "unidentified develop" (as I purchased directly from C1 and not from Apple's App Store.

See:

• Open a Mac app from an unidentified developer 

and other such help topics on the net.