After upgrading to After Effects 2017 I can't open a .aep file by clicking on it. What I can do is open a blank AE project then import the original file and can work from there. So obviously the file doesn't seem corrupted. However, the video files that I am working on a pretty complex and I need to reset up my many compositions every time I want to work on it (i.e: find the correct ones and drag them out into tabs).
Is this an issue with the After Effects latest build? Is anyone else experiencing this? If it is something that just got switched on my version, how do I fix it?
I followed the steps for the Run command, and it couldn't find any .aep files. which is weird. I tried to follow the steps for the Registry correction, but I'll admit I don't really understand the registry as well as I could and don't know where to start.
I followed the steps for the Run command, and it couldn't find any .aep files. which is weird.
do you mean set association could not find aep files?
I tried to follow the steps for the Registry correction, but I'll admit I don't really understand the registry as well as I could and don't know where to start.
definitely don't go there if you are not familiar the slightest with it. this is a big step
try this - add a new user in user accounts and see if login with this user and using Ae solves this issue. this is also a dramatic step because all your setting of your OS will be fresh.
OR - instead of both of these steps and especially if you are not sure what to do - try contacting support and solve this issue with a support agent via remote desktop and skype. Contact Customer Care I have done this a few times where CC software problems got the best of me
I'll have to contact customer care than. My computer is a work computer, and the permissions will not allow me to make a new login. Thanks for the pointers. I'll update if I can get it to work.
I & others occasionally have the same issue with Illustrator, double clicking image files. I don't usually double click AE projects to open them so I couldn't say if problem is the same. But the fix for Illustrator is to open task manager and look for multiple instances of Adobe processes running. End those processes and and it (illustrator) works again until it doesn't.
I too have accepted the workflow.
Whoever's steering Adobe is like an incompetent sea captain. Navigating at sea if your just a hair's width fraction off course but continue on anyway without correcting, eventually you will wind up thousands of miles off course. Adobe continues on without correcting and is headed for disaster.
BTW, it makes no sense to me why you have to re-set-up all you compositions. For one thing the open compositions (tabs) get saves with the project file. And secondly whether you double click the .aep file or open it from the AE file menu should have no effect on the state of the project when it opens.
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