I am hoping that DxO will write a plug-in that can do what “Open Directly” does. A cool feature of this workflow is that my edits to the original RAW file get included in the PureRaw DNG (except the noise reduction and sharpness edits, of course!) Since the PureRaw images are in a “DxO” subdirectory, the synchronize finds them and imports them. What I do instead, is go back to LR and right-click on the folder they came from and select “Synchronize Folder”.
Once the images are processed, I haven’t had much luck with the “Export to Lightroom Classic” option in PureRaw.
Select the photos you want to process with PureRaw and select “File/Plug-in Extras/Quick” (under the Open Directly section.) The images you selected will then be opened in PureRaw, ready for processing. In row 1, add “C:\Program Files\DxO\DxO PureRAW\PureRawv1.exe” and click OK. Click OK on the “trial version” message and you will get to the config screen for the plugin. In LR, go to File/Plug-in Extras in the menu and choose “Open directly”. The plugin is a bit pricey, but it supports using one app as nagware. Follow the instructions for installing into LR. Go to Open Directly - open files directly into 3rd party app and download the plugin. Here is a workaround I found for us Windows users that are tired of clicking “Open in Explorer” and then dragging the file from there to PureRaw: The Export function usually converts to other formats, such as JPG, TIFF, etc. As far as I know, there is no way to export a batch of RAW files to another folder in LR.