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I have just updated the OS and imported my Aperture library. The photos from Aperture have been imported correctly (both a RAW and a JPEG of each image can be seen if I look within the Photos package).
However, in Photos OS X some of the photos are labelled J and are JPEGs whilst others are labelled R and are RAW. There appears to be no way of changing the view of the master file and the 2 commands in the 'Image' menu ('Reprocess RAW' and 'Use RAW as Original' are both continually greyed out.
Can anyone suggest how I might be able to change update the Photos library so I can use the RAW images as the Master?
Thanks
Patrick

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