Using external editor - edits not saved

[Rhod]

Hi - I'm using Raw Power as my external editor but when I return to PSu my edits are not being saved. Am I doing something incorrectly?

Thanks
Rhod

[Username]

The Raw Power application saves all changes and adjustments in a sidecar file.
The raw photo itself and its preview is not altered in any way.
Sidecar files are save both in a sandbox container at
/Library/Containers/com.gentlemencoders.RAWPower/Data
but also in same directory as the original photo.

PhotoSupreme can to some extent read and parse sidecar files from certain manufactures like DxO, CaptureOne and Lightroom.
You might want to post a feature request asking if its possible to parse some or data from the sidecar and apply that to the preview.
Sometime those sidecars are pretty much impossible to parse properly as they are encrypted or encoded in very specific ways.

What you can do is to export a lower res jpeg from Raw Power with a certain name addition and then let PSU use that special jpeg as preview.

When I look at the Raw Powers sidecars they are not that inviting.

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	AB4AHwAlADsASQBKAEsAeAB5AHoAewB8AH0AfgB/AIAAgQCCAIMAhACFAIYAhwCIAIkA
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[Rhod]

Thanks for your response! I suppose the other alternative then would be to only edit externally files that I need for some other purpose (usually pictures of artwork for submission to galleries) and export those from RAW Power as JPGs or Tiffs or whatever, leaving the original RAW files in PSu. The only way this presents a problem is that I almost always have to crop my photos to remove the surrounds of a painting and using the above workflow I'd have to crop in PSu and crop again in RAW Power (if I wish to see cropped images in PSu) Am I correct in thinking that?