Affinity Photo icon appearing automatically on all NEF RAW files upon importing from SD card.

[WilfH]

I am having a problem since upgrading to Affinity Photo 2, with the Affinity Photo icon appearing automatically & unsolicited on all NEF RAW files upon importing from SD card. When this happens I cannot stack those files that need processing using my Helicon Focus software as it does not recognise the file, whereas last week using the earlier Affinity Photo this problem did not arise. Is there a way to disable this feature as I do all my preliminary editing in Capture One then do the creative stuff using Affinity Photo 2?

I'm not very computer literate as I am new to using a Mac computer.

[Old Bruce]

29 minutes ago, WilfH said:

I'm not very computer literate as I am new to using a Mac computer.

Welcome to the forums @WilfH,

On the Mac there is the Get Info window. It has a section for opening files with appropriate applications. The Mac OS has to guess, sometimes we have to correct it.

Choose one of your .NEF files and call up the Get Info window. Click on the Open with drop down menu and choose from the list, if your application (Helicon Focus) use the "Other..." to open a window full of applications to choose from.

I must point out that by default the change will apply only to the file(s) you have selected to Get Info for, if you want to have all your .NEF files opened by Helicon Focus then you'll need to click on the Change All button in the first screenshot.

I am unaware of how Helicon Focus works but I would think there is a menu command to open files. That is what I would use if only a few of my .CR2 files needed to be opened by it.