HT3946 Unsupported image format

I've been getting a message "This photo was adjusted using an earlier version of APPLE RAW processing" unsupported image format and it's been doing this to photos I took today and my older one's any advice on how to fix this?

What is the make of your camera? This problem has occured recently mostly for Lumix and Nikon cameras:
First try, if reprocessing the images will help:
See this section of the user manual on how to do this for selected images:
Reprocessing Images from Previous Versions of Aperture
If this does not help, you may need to register your camera with the the launch service database again, see this post by Alan Roseman:, Re: Aperture 3 preview of raw file greenish
There is a "typo" in the command given in the link above, so read also the following posts on how to correctly enter the command and how the fix is supposed to work
Regards
Léonie

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