MacOS 10.15 Catalina Compatibility
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Apple has recently released macOS Catalina (10.15), a new desktop software operating system.
For now, our apps are not fully compatible with Catalina, but we will fix all the compatibility issues in the upcoming updates.
Which Skylum apps are going to be compatible with macOS Catalina? Luminar 4, Luminar 3, Luminar Flex and Aurora HDR 2019.
We suggest you avoid upgrading to Catalina until the compatibility issues are fixed if they will impact your work.
If you do encounter issues not already documented here, please contact us via http://www.skylum.com/support
Known compatibility issues:
• The problems with adding the folders to the Catalog (Luminar 3 might add the folder but shows that there are 0 photos or the incorrect number of them).
• In case you use the app as a Photos extension, you will not be able to save edits back to Photos. However, there is a workaround:
Launch Photos, right-click on the image select Edit with > Luminar/ Aurora HDR, after you have made all the necessary edits, please click File > Open in Photos.
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Hi Everyone,
We have released an update with Catalina OS support. Please, refer to this post:
https://community.skylum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360006385539
If you're facing any issues installing the update, please, contact us via https://skylum.com/support
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found this thread ..
https://community.skylum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360006385539
downloaded L3 - was hoping it included the patch but it didn't so downloaded th patch again. Extract failed again
I live in rural northern MT and access the web via my cell phone . this is eating up my data allowance
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Excited to receive the update and happy to see that efforts are actually being made. Unfortunately on installing the update I am still faced with the same issue. The images imported do not show up in the folder that they are actually in and in the "All Photos" shortcut the images are duplicated each time that I restart Luminar. I did test with a new import under the new release with the same results. From my perspective the update didn't change anything for me.
As a Digital Asset Manager, this is VERY scary. I am worried that the slip shot way that the catalog is working puts my valuable photography assets at risk. Though I am comforted that the original files are not damaged, all my edits run the risk of being lost on having to reimport or re-create the catalog. On 30k images, you can imagine that this is an incredible loss of invested time in my assets. This on its own is very troubling.
I will patiently wait a few more days for a workable solution but faced without a functioning product I will have to move elsewhere as my confidence and trust in this product is shattered. In concept Luminar is great, the image results are great as well, but the risk and non-performance its just too high to trust my assets to and to rely that I have a key component in my editing toolchain.
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Apparently, one needs their License Code to unlock the update. That is, it considers your installation a new purchase. Try as I might, I cannot find mine even though I purchased Luminar 3 only 8 days ago, My machines have an uncanny practice of hiding just the emails I want. I can find all the ones I don't want, but I cannot find the email from Skylum with my activation key.
Related, I emailed you a screen shot of my receipt from the Apple App Store so that you could list Luminar 3 in "My Software." So now it's listed, but there is no link to download it or to manage my license. If that had been done, I would not have to bother you here.
The update does work for me, albeit I am in trial mode until I can get my License Key.
Thanks in advance.
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I also got the 'Update Error!',
To get latest version 3.1.4, I 'Move to Bin' the installed Luminar 3,
then install new after download from https://skylum.com/account/my-software
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Bill is right, the only way is to Revert to Original. That is the way it has always been with Photos. In fact any external editor be it Luminar, Nik, Topaz et al will always send back a tiff or jpeg with the edits baked in, irrespective of which host app you are using. The edits are always destructive but so long as you have the raw somewhere you still have the original image available to you. I just wish there was an option to send either a tiff or jpeg back to Photos, although I accept that using tiff as the default would eat up a lot of storage space.
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Since last update is has actually gotten worse.
I have now 16 (sixteen!) copies of the same photo in the 'all photo's' directory, while there is only 1 in the actual directory on my Mac.
I'm now affraid to try any more of their, so called 'updates', out of fear Skylum is really trying to kill my Mac...
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Now L3 works well with Apple-Photos, thanks Alina. Look to the following Threat from Ailina.
https://community.skylum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360006385539
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The patch finally installed this morning after a number of unsuccessful tries yesterday.
- Working. It seems like I can open a photo in Apple Photos plug in, edit and save.
- Not working. When opening Luminar stand alone, and as before, I can open and edit files. I can create a new folder in Luminar (or in Finder), add a photo or import a photo but Luminar doesn't see anything in the folder. Likewise if I add a photo to an existing folder, Luminar doesn't see it.... not good for workflow.
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Mr. E
I have been experiencing the same problem and I believe I know what is happening. If you ran Luminar 3 (before the update) under Catalina and imported new images they will not show up in the folder in Luminar but they do show up in the folder in the Finder. Under the "All Photos" shortcut for that date the show up. Problem is that every time you start Luminar those photos get duplicated. This is corrupting the Catalog database and doesn't fix with the update and continues to duplicate.
I then created a new catalog and imported the files which works as expected. I can move between folders and everything seems to work. Even after restarting Luminar there is no longer any duplication happening. In the previous catalog I have 7 copies of the imported images.
Of course making a new catalog and re-importing all your photos so it works is just dandy.. except then you loose all your previous edits only having to do them all over again. So you don't lose your precious original images but you loose all your combined editing efforts this way. So frankly speaking not a good solution but may be the only way to get rid of the database corruption. There doesn't seem to be a way to repair or rebuild the existing database. So in my case all is lost ( I do have a backup of the old) as I need to keep editing and adding new images.
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Hi Eric,
Hmm, that's not an acceptable solution for me.
I give 'm a week to sort things out and come up with a decent update.
If not i'm moving to Affinity or Raw Therapee, i'm in the proces testing both those programs now and i like what i see.
That said: Thanks for the explanation. :) you seem to understand Luminar better than they do.
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Hi Wolfgang,
Yeah I didn't think of that but using the old catalog would mean I won't lose my edits. Just need to manage two catalogs. Just the old catalog keeps duplicating the most recent imports, but I trashed them (though cannot empty the trash because it can't find the duplicates). Still saves me from having to redo the previous edits. Thanks.
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Hi Bowman,
We will update Aurora HDR 2019 with an update later this year.
Please see the post here:
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