Just downloaded 4.2.1148 because the previous version started crashing all of sudden and I have no idea why. Hope the new version would fix that. But now I can’t open my images with RT. On my computer I’d click Photos>Folder with image>Double click image and it would open with RT. Now when I click the image it asks me to choose the program I want to use to open the file. When I click browse and click on RawTherappe, it doesn’t show up. It apparently won’t let me choose it to open an image. Is there a fix to this?
First start RawTherapee, then open an image using the file browser. I suggest you read the first two or three alineas of the documentation.
I assume that you’ve lost your file association with RawTherapee that would normally tell your computer to open (.NEF/.CR2/.ORF/.DNG etc…) raw files with RT.
It’s hard to help you when we don’t know what OS you are using.
You can also open RT manually, then use the file explorer in RT to navigate to your directory of images.
This is of course the preferred method, as you can apply profiles or do other stuff before opening the raw in RT. Opening a raw file straight from a file browser is not the preferred method, because you bypass some carefully implemented functionality.
I don’t think functionally it’s any different. @Morgan_Hardwood can correct me if I’m wrong, but regardless of which method is used to get the image edited in RT, the full pipeline of process steps is still applied (as expected).
Windows Vista 64bit
I could open RT and go from there but it is much much easier to just double click on the image I want and let it open in RT like I could do before.
This article walks through some steps to associate certain filetypes with particular programs - have you tried something like this to re-associate your raw files with RT?
I guess you are using windows. First check, that the old version of RT is deinstalled. If not, delete the whole old RT folder. Simply use CCleaner and clean your Registry to remove the old file association to RT. Now you can associate the new RT version to your images.
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The pipeline is the same, but when an image is passed to RawTherapee as an argument, as is the case when you click a raw photo in a file manager and “Open with” RawTherapee, then it runs in a mode which was used to conserve RAM long ago when RT ate a lot of it, though that mode is more of a pain nowadays… Get rid of no-File-Browser mode (simpleEditor) · Issue #2238 · Beep6581/RawTherapee · GitHub
That mode means you don’t have access to the Queue or to Preferences, so it is more user-friendly to open images from RT’s own file browser for now, assuming you use the Queue.
@Smurf’s problem is of course a Windows problem, unrelated to RawTherapee.