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Question

How do you open .heic file from Windows 8.1

Jun 17, 2018 12:07PM PDT

Someone took a bunch of pictures of us and sent them to me via Google Drive. I downloaded them but I can't open must of them because most of them have the .heic file extension. I don't have an iphone or any apple devices. I use this desktop primarily. Thanks for the help.

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Answer
change one file's ending to....
Jun 17, 2018 12:12PM PDT

...other extensions to see if that will work. Try jpg, tiff, bmp, png, gif, among others. I'm betting they use a different extension, but it's actually a common file format.

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That didn't work . . .
Jun 17, 2018 3:59PM PDT

. . . Just manually changing the extensions didn't work.

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Why not solve it the usual way?
Jun 17, 2018 4:04PM PDT

I read The GIMP and other apps open such.

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I'm sorry . . .
Jun 18, 2018 5:20PM PDT

. . . but I don't understand? Are you telling me to download GIMP?

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Not only that
Jun 18, 2018 5:33PM PDT

But use The GIMP to open the file.

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Does the GIMP . . .
Jun 21, 2018 9:11PM PDT

contain malware/bloatware? I opened images on my nice computer, and I am very selective about the software that I install on here.

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Thanks for responding . . .
Jun 18, 2018 5:20PM PDT

. . . but I don't understand what this means.

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The link
Jun 19, 2018 2:12AM PDT

Points to other links that explain what a heic file is and how to access the thing.

Read through a few links and find one that makes sense to you.

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I had already Googled . . .
Jun 21, 2018 9:11PM PDT

the issue before I started this thread. Wasn't having any success. There is an online option, but that is not very convenient.