Butterscotch

On 10 February 2016 at 0:56 AM, Brian said:

Sorry,  you have to do any moving / exporting from within iPhoto. You see, it imports the photos into its own catalog file, kinda like LR, but MUCH MUCH worse. Instead of leaving the photos on the HD and have their locations indexed like Lightroom does, iPhoto sucks your photos into itself. It takes them hostage and I think deletes the Raw file and only keeps the JPEG. 

So you'll have to work with the jumbled mess that is iPhoto. Good Luck.

iPhoto and Photos are evil-evil programs.

It doesn't delete the RAW file. It's still there just tucked away safely until you export it

1 hour ago, Christina Keddie said:

Doesn't "export original" work to get the raw files out? I haven't tried it myself (because Photos is EVIL), but I thought that would work?

Yep that's how you do it! Whatever you do, don't mess around in the folder. You need to do it through the photos app. It's quite straightforward and logical once you've done it the first time.

Highlight the photos you want exported. From the file menu choose export and make sure you choose original from the options. From there you get to choose where they get exported to.