How can I open AAE files in Yosemite?

I guess I upgraded to Yosemite and can't read many of them because they are AAE files.

The .AAE files are not image files. They are sidecar files with metadata. Afaik, the Photos.app in iOS 8 on the iPhone is creating them, but the matching Photos.app on the Mac that would understand them is still missing. Keep the AEE files, until the Photos.app for Mac will come out. Hopefully it will be able to read these sidecar files.

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-using-new-aae-sidecar-forma t-for-ios-8-photos/

I don't even know what that is. Is it from a particular camera?

iPhones with iOS8 are creating these files. It is an XML file with metadata. They will show up, when you download iPhone image files with ImageCapture on Yosemite. I posted an example here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6625603?answerId=26943659022#26943659022

You're welcome 🙂

Now we just need an Apple app that can read the files for us!

To see the content of AEE files you can open them with a simple text editor. Use for instance TextEdit in applications folder of your mac. Simply drag the files over the textedit icon or use the "Open..." option from the File menu while in TextEdit. I guess this would be similar with NotePad on a PC.

Use for instance TextEdit in applications folder of your mac. Simply drag the files over the textedit icon or use the "Open..." option from the File menu while in TextEdit. I guess this would be similar with NotePad on a PC.

Yes, that will work partly. I used Text Edit to show the XML content of the file in my linked post. But it will only show some of the meta data and not show the adjustment; that are binary data. And it will not open the image with the metadata and adjustments applied. We need a program, that will open the pair .AAE and .JPEG, and apply the metadata and adjustments to the JPEG file.

hi,

this is why I was "complaining" about Aperture missing this feature. As you see, iOS8 images do retain and even export the edits out of your idevice but Aperture simple ignores these XML files. I'm in the search to put these XML back together with their corresponding images.

Forget about the AAE files for now.

When importing photos from iOS 8 to your Mac:

– Importing them with 'Image Capture' will give you the original photos

– Importing them with 'AirDrop' will give you the edited photos.

So you can have both versions on the Mac should you so desire.

Forget about the AAE files for now.

When importing photos from iOS 8 to your Mac:

– Importing them with 'Image Capture' will give you the original photos

– Importing them with 'AirDrop' will give you the edited photos.

So you can have both versions on the Mac should you so desire.

And we will need twice the storage. With iOS 7 I could transfer photos with filters applied losslessly to Aperture and iPhoto. The edited photo was transferred and I could toggle the iOS filter on and off in Aperture's adjustment tab. The photo was transferred as Master-Version pair. That was much better than having to stack the edited and the original.

You're right.

Now that Photos.app has been launched, I can confirm that Apple have not included the ability to import the .aae settings from the iPhone.

Super annoying as I like to edit photos on my iPhone.

This should be transfered back to the Mac.

Apple needs to get their **** together.

Why can there be at least an automated designated album called "Edited"?

Thank you.