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mcic1984

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Dec 9, 2002
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I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing this issue.

I upgraded my late-2016 MacBook Pro to macOS Catalina and on the Photos app, it no longer exports TIFF images reliably. It invariably loses the EXIF GPS data and ends up with an error.

I have reported this on Feedback Assistant (on the web, as I'm using the final build rather than beta of Catalina) but wanted to check if this was something with my laptop or whether it was more widespread.

JPEG exports work perfectly fine.
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Here are two screenshots –– the first image is a JPEG export and the EXIF data (lat long) is exported correctly from Photos. However, the latter image, the TIFF, the lat long data is missing. This worked fine in Mojave.

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Second image! -- TIFF image loses EXIF GPS data. This worked correctly in Mojave but fails in Catalina.
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