Apple is sending out email notices to everyone who bought Aperture in the Mac App Store, reminding them that the end is nigh.
Apple announced their intention to discontinue both Aperture and iPhoto back during WWDC 2014. This new notice reminds people that that's still happening — likely following the full consumer release of Photos for Mac at some point this spring —and that they will be able to migrate their Aperture library to Photos for Mac once it's released.
You can migrate your Aperture library to Photos for OS X, including your photos, adjustments, albums, and keywords. After migrating, your Aperture library remains intact. However, Aperture and Photos do not share a unified library, so any changes made after the migration will not be shared between the apps.
Photos for Mac is expected to arrive for most consumers with the release of OS X 10.10.3. The app has already made an appearance in the recent developer releases of OS X, as well as the public beta release earlier this week. If you have any questions about Photos for Mac in relation to Aperture be sure to check out our guide to What you need to know about Photos for OS X.
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Apple mails out reminder about Aperture's ending
And you turds just keep applauding Apple's every move!?! Wait until you buy the Apple car and they send out an email saying they no longer support parking the car in restaurants that serve meat (Vegan's step in now and tell us why that's not bad). f#$kin bunch of turds
Life isn't fair and no one always gets their way. If you bought it already, then whats the problem? you can still use it. Its not like its going to flash you the middle finger and automatically delete itself. It just won't get any updates for now on.
I wonder what personality disorder you're suffering from that makes you come to iMore and post such hateful shit.
Well, I tried importing my Aperture Library into Photos to see how well it would work. The answer... not very well. I have a ton of duplicate (or more) photos due to how Aperture makes versions when you edit files. None of my albums or projects pulled into the app. The "Photos Library" that gets created is (at least for me) 33% larger than my Aperture library. And, to top it off, the app has so much white space that it is hard to look at. Definitely not planning to use this program anytime soon.
I got this email today, and my solution is to migrate to Pixelmator or Lightroom cause there is no way I'm going to be using this new app.
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Going from Aperture to Lightroom is a no brainer. Photos is great, but it's an iPhoto replacement, not an Aperture replacement. Having said that, nothing in Photos precludes you from continuing to use Aperture, which still works fine in Yosemite.
Oh I will be keeping my copy of Aperture, but I lament the fact that it will never be updated again. Also if I ever have to reinstall OS X I would not be able to download a fresh copy of Aperture from the App Store. It would be nice if Apple donated Aperture to the Open Source community so people can create additions and updates for it but that's not going to happen.
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That's not true. Mac App Store purchases are linked to your Apple ID. I've confirmed with Apple that people who already own Aperture will continue to be able to download Aperture, even once it's no longer available for new sales.
The email I received from Apple says "When Photos for OS X launches this Autumn...". Your article says Spring and I know that's what we were expecting. Did Apple just push Photos back to Autumn?
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My copy of the email says Spring, not Autumn. Are you south of the equator?
Ah that's it. I live in China, but one of my iTunes accounts is still in Australia!
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So I put the card from my DSLR into my MacBook Pro, and it has hundreds of Canon RAW files on it, each with some weird file name.
I want an app that will take my hand from here, not to edit the files, but to categorize them, rename them, organize them by whatever criteria (vacation, work, Falcon 9 launch, etc.), and do it seamlessly.
I've never found any such app, and I own Aperture. Maybe Photos?