Importing only RAW with Photos - ignoring JPEG My camera creates both RAW and JPEG photos. Normally I delete the JPEG photos before importing. Today I forgot to do that. Now the photos on the card are deleted, and it seems that I only have JPEG images in my Photos library. 

To test this I created two smart albums, one with only RAW, one with no RAW - effectively JPEG only. The last photos are only found in RAW, not in the JPEG album. Why is that? I can't find a setting to prefer RAW either. 

Why would Photos ignore the RAW files, while it's obvious that these are preferred?
If you see a J in a square on the top right of the image, you're using the JPEG image. You can change this to RAW using the following steps:


Open the image
Click the yellow edit button
Menu: Image > Use RAW as original
Click done


You will now see an R in a square instead of the J. You have to do this for each image, can't do it for all at once.