Projects and Albums: quick question...

So, I have some "projects" that I want to delete. But first, I want to move the images to another "album" or whatever.
So, I drag all of images from one project to another album.
But then, when I click delete on the actual project, I get a dialog box telling me that the master images are going to be deleted. Sure enough... the images are gone. Not catastrophic, I got them back in.
But I am trying to figure out how to do this. Must be missing some simple function.
How do you move images OUT of a project, and then delete that project without losing the images that you've moved out? What am I missing?
rick
G5 / DP 1.8 / 2gb RAM / ATI X800 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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How do you move images OUT of a project, and then
delete that project without losing the images that
you've moved out? What am I missing?
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Another option (if your albums are all inside projects) is to export the project the albums are in and then re-import - when you export a project that has albums with pictures from other projects, all of the files (master files and versions from stacks) that you had put in that album will be copied into the exported project and thus return when you re-import that project.
If you don't have the albums you want inside a project, you can just create a new project and move your albums inside of it.
It is probably safer though just to move the files into a new project so you don't miss anything! I wanted to give you another option though in case that was too annoying.

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I have already posted a question about how to find a project or album. If you have TONS of projects and albums how do you find a specific one in the browser? I cannot see any way to sort other than alphabetically and there is no way to search project or album names.
By the same token, and this is my new question, how do you easily display in the viewer all the files in a project? (a project may contain albums with images that are not stored on the root level of that project, so highlighting the project in the browser does not display them). Or similarly, how do you display in the viwer the images contained in several albums? There eseems to be no way to simultaneaously selct albums or projects. You can have several tabs open but not see the images together in the viewer. In fact to make a slide show off all the images in one project you have to create an album and manually put in all the images.
Similarly, there is no way of making a smart album of all the images in a project or determined albums, which would have been a work around for all these issues.....
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Hola Francisco,
Aperture is a much more powerful software than iPhoto and it's crucial to understand the way its library works to get the most of its organization capabilities.
Master images can only be placed (physically) inside projects. These are then image containers. An album only has links to images, and this links can go to any project. So even if an album is inside a project it could be displaying images that are not inside that project but somewhere else (if you drag and drop from other project previously).
On the project panel, projects are display in alphabetical order, but you can also use blue folders to organize projects. My project panel is organized as follows:
Project '1. Imports': A project created to automatically recieve all the photos when a card is inserted in my card reader. I use a hot folder with automator for this.
Blue folder '2. Smart Albums': This blue folder has all the smart albums I need to quickly find any image in the library.
Blue folder '3. Work': This folder has all the projects related to my work.
Blue folder '4. Travel': Contains projects of my travel photography divided by country.
Blue folder '5. Portrait': Contains projects of portrait sessions.
Blue folder '6. Social & Events': Contains projects of differents events I shoot.
Project '7. Templates': Contains photoshop templates to create 9 in 1 frames, etcetera.
As you can see I use numbers in front of every name to keep them in the order I want. Then the metadata does the rest, I add keywords to easily find ANY image in seconds, doesn't matter how long I did it.
A Smart album will search inside the whole Library if you create it at 'All images' level, then you can drag it to a folder to organize them if you want.
I'd recommend the book by Ben Long and Orlando Luna, it made me squeeze all the potential of Aperture, way beyond the manual that came with the program.

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In the navigation panel, under Library I click projects and of course see all 16 of my projects displayed to the right.
Now, under the "Projects and Albums" 3 of those project are listed. Only 3. If I try to delete them so as not to have these 3 appearing in both places, I get the warning that photos will be deleted.
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It used to be Projects and Albums would line up in alphabetical order when created in Aperture Libraries. It hasbn't been happening for me in recent updates, and I can't find a way to set this in preferences. Even worse, some times albums won't let me change their order — they snap into different order than I drag them in. Don't know what's happening.

When you drag any project or album, Aperture switches to Manual arrangement of all.
Click on the gear icon at the top right of the Library list Sidebar, choose Keep Projects and Albums arranged by, and choose alphabetic if that is what you want. You can't modify by dragging, though.
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A photo can exist in one and only one PROJECT. Conversely, one photo can exist in as many ALBUMS as you like. The previously mentioned playlist analogy for Albums is great. One song can be in many playlists.
I look at Projects as photo shoots. The raw files from each of my photo shoots are kept in their own project. When I see the word Project, I automatically think "photo shoot".
So, where do albums come into the picture? If I shoot an executive portrait session on 7-12-08, I may create an album with just the favorite photos from that shoot. The album is a way to keep a certain group of images easily accessible. Then, what if the client wants to pull together portraits from that shoot and several others? In that case, I can create ANOTHER album with the exact same selects from the 7-12-08 shoot, PLUS images from any other shoot as well. The bottom line is that albums give you the opportunity to have the same photo in many locations.
Folders are a way to organize your projects, albums, websites, books, etc.
Great explanation thanks. But, you had to go and complicate it by mentioning folders...;-).

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Hi guys
I'm having to completely start again with my Mac, reinstall OSX and add everything all over again and I was wondering...I have quite a big Aperture library (6GB) and was wondering if the Aperture Library.aplibrary file that's in my Pictures folder and backed up on my External HD also contains the projects and albums that you've created?
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Hi all, I'm new to Aperture. I keep all my photo's on a NAS box and have linked them into Aperture with Import Folders as projects storing files in their current location. Everything seemed great, it didn't fill my HDD up with 1TB of pictures and it kept my folder structure. I though i had it all sorted, but when i add files to the folders on the NAS box they don't get added to the Aperture projects/Albums.
When i try to do another import it just stupidly creates a copy of the projects and albums inside the ones i already have!
Basically is there a way to use Aperture in this way where i don't have to fill my HDD up with my pictures that i already have stored on a NAS box and that i can update when i add new pictures to the NAS box (preferably automatically) without having to delete all the aperture content and add it again?

Dave,
Welcome to the user-supported Aperture discussion group.
When i try to do another import it just stupidly creates a copy of the projects and albums inside the ones i already have!
I might suggest reading the page of the manual before you call it stupid. It works as designed and as documented as far as I can tell.
[http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/usermanual/index.html#chapter=4%26se ction=9%26hash=apple_ref:doc:uid:Aperture-UserManual-91292IMP-1056494]
Basically is there a way to use Aperture in this way where i don't have to fill my HDD up with my pictures that i already have stored on a NAS box
Yes, using referenced masters, which I believe you have already done.
that i can update when i add new pictures to the NAS box (preferably automatically) without having to delete all the aperture content and add it again?
Well, yes, but you'll have to change your workflow.
Aperture is not designed to import a whole computer's worth of files and sort out the duplicates every time. It is designed to do that once to initialize your library. After that, you must import individual folders or photos.
You will be in charge of telling Aperture what to import, unless you set up some Hot Folders and folder actions. People do this for tethered shooting all the time. Still, that will be only for a particular folder. There's no way to make Aperture look "next to" what it imported previously and see if there's anything there.
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Fixed and 2 quick questions (bios thread)

Hi Everyone, i need your help again...
[....]. since i installed Win2k3 on my system i was getting stability problems, especially lockups to black screen in games. On Win2k3 i was using the exact same drivers as I am going to list soon, and so I thought I'd install Windows XP again on a spare hard drive to see if this helped. I wish i'd never messed with my system my previous XP install was almost 100% stable, but that's another story.
Today I perfomed these steps in this order:
1)Downloaded SP1a
2)formatted new hard drive
3)Booted from CD, did a Windows XP Pro install
4)Started XP Pro, installed SP1a
5)Installed Nforce system drivers and Display Drivers 29.42 (these were very good to me before...) and restarted
6)Installed Speedtouch USB ADSL Drivers 2.0.1.2 and went online
6.5)Enabled Hardware Acceleration on Displayt Properties
6.7) Installed direct x 9.0a web setup.
7)Did full windows update: all the critical stuff, most of the recommended (except MEssanger, Media Player and a couple others) and the CPU driver (left my Gfx and Sound on the above)
8) After a restart started a game
It lasted all of 10 seconds once I started playing.
Ok, maybe 5 seconds. Smae as Win2k3!!! I was running bios default performance options, with APIC off... so I ran Prime 95 for a while, got no errors .... about to try a memtest86 but I'm pretty cetrain the memory is good never had trouble with it before at all and I've tested it before too.
Can someone help me out? Here's my hardware config
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AMD XP 1900+ (no overclock any more)
MSI K7N420D MB
2*512MB DDR266 Samsung 'Transcend' Memory (unbranded really) (16 chip DIMMs)
Geforce 2 MX400 32MB SDRAM (unbranded - runs a little faster then onboard graphics)
Adaptec 29160LP Scsi Card
IBM 16000rpm 32GB SCSI Disk (UW-2)
2*WD1000BB 100GB Western Digital IDE Drives (the normal ones with 2mb cache) in Software Raid - 0 on Promise card
18GB Maxtor ATA66 IDE hd on Nforce, with CDR.
a Promise Ultra TX100 Dual IDE Controller card (for CD Rom + expansion)
Enermax 431w PSU / 7200rpm fan on heavy HS.
Windows XP SP1 / DX 9.0a (going to reformat to Win2003)
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I could really do with anyone's working driver config for a windows XP sp1a system, and how to build it from the bottom up. If a given driver config that works 100% for others fails for me I can start hardware troubleshooting and cursing loudly, otherwise with any luck it'll fix my problem.... please help me out i know there are people out there still running NForce 1 boards!
Quick question that could help: what sound driver revision from windows update should i be using? I can get the archived ones....
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Naveen.
PS If i manage to fix it i'll update here, but i need a hand plz

.... also, I have the same errors running the same game from Win2k3 on a SCSI drive through the PCI bus (adaptec 29160) on the 2.7 bios. It looks like there is still an issue with fast PCI bus read/writes, sound usage and AGP card usage causing crashes. Discounting the OS change and APIC, I have these scenarios:
1) Game running off IDE drive on Nforce IDE ports: fine
2) Running of IDE drives on promise controller card: fails, locks.
3) Running off scsi drive on Adaptec 29160 card: fails, game locks.
So we may still have an issue with PCI read/writes and stability on bios 2.7 and Nforce system drivers 2.03 ... which is big news really.
I hope one of the moderators can put MSI in the picture and get them or NVidia to look into this. I can try eliminating APIC and the OS/Drivers from the issue, and install the game on all 3 drive configurations to confirm the above if necessary, but it's what it looks like from here. Using Performance bios defaults with no overclock, underclocking didnt help.
Perhaps bios 2.4 will fix this in which case the bios still needs work, 2 years on.
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Projects and albums and confusion

I searched for a solution to this issue, but probably wasn't using the correct search terms.
My current setup has a Project called Plant Material.
I also have an album called 'Plant Material'. This is because many times I photograph something that puts the photo in a different project, but the image contains plant material.
This is one of my main issues with Aperture, and I suppose that Albums were created to solve the problem of one mage in many projects.
Now, though, I have decided after a few years' using Aperture (and yes it can take that long to get the feel of it) that I want all of my Plant Material images in one place.
Does it make sense to use an Album for this? If so, I suppose I would still have the Plant Material project? When I am working with the images, would I always work with the images in the album?
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RB:
I knew someone would say that. And it does seem to play to Aperture's strengths for sure. However, I have a custom field called 'Scientific', where I put the names of the plants 'Quercus virginiana'. In order to organize as you smartly suggest I would need a keyword to find all the critters.
Say I did. Then what? A smart album makes sense but is SLOW. Makes sense though.
And then back to the other question: how the **** do I combine a project with a folder, when some of the folder contents are in the project?
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ITunes and Album Artwork question on Mac with two users

Hey everyone, I have what I hope is a pretty simple question. Right now, on my iMac, I have 2 user accounts, one for me and one for my wife. I wanted us to be able to share all of our music, so when I was setting up the computer, I put the iTunes Music Library in a /User/Shared/Music directory. Then, inside iTunes, for both users, I pointed to this new library. Everything here works great. When I add a song under 1 user, I just have to go to Add to Library under the other user and the songs are added. Works fine.
My main question is about the album artwork. I recently spent a lot of time under my user account going through and making sure I have all of the album artwork for every song we have in our library. I never thought about checking this on my wife's account, but when I did I realized that all of the stuff I added is not there. Anyway, I did some checking and found out that the album artwork is stored in each users Music directory. I did some reading on the web, and what I did was move my album artwork folder to the /Users/Shared/ directory, then created a symbolic link in my user directory to the shared folder. I did the same in my wife's account. I thought this would do the trick but it hasn't changed anything. Can anyone help me out here? Thanks so much for your time.

The artwork is stored in Music/iTunes/Artwork.
iTunes handles everything in that folder when iTunes adds it to the database.
This info is maintained in the iTunes library file in the iTunes folder.
iTunes will not do anything by copying or pointing to the artwork folder in your folder.
Unless you are both using the same iTunes library file, you will need to get your own artwork.
I put the iTunes Music Library
Do you mean the iTunes music folder?
Here's a way to do what you want.
Move your *iTunes folder* to the shared directory.
Open iTunes holding Option and select *Choose existing library*.
Select the iTunes library file in the Shared directory.
Everything should work fine.
Quit iTunes.
Move the *iTunes music folder* from /User/Shared/Music directory into the *iTunes folder* you moved into the Shared directory.
Start iTunes. Everything should work.
Quit iTunes.
Log into your wife's account.
Start iTunes holding the Option key, select *Choose existing library* and select the *iTunes library file* in the iTunes folder you moved into the Shared directory.
Everything should be there including all artwork.
Each user needs to quit iTunes before the other user can open it.
Shouldn't be a problem since you are using the same computer.

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I'd like to sync some photos to my iPad but the option to sync "Selected projects, albums, and faces" is disabled (and the equivalent for iPhoto).
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Move the pictures out and then import them back in and try to add the face.
iPhoto '11: Import your photos
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph2328
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TS2518 I opened Aperture and all my projects and albums for the last 4 months have gone. Where can I recover them from?

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We will need to know more, to be able to help you to find and restore your images.
What exactly do you mean by "lost 4 month of photos". Are earlier projects still visible in Aperture or are all your projects missing?
What is your Aperture version and your MacOS X version?
And what were the last action you did on your mac, before the photos went missing? Did you install something, update something, run some cleaning tools?
Did you move your aperture library to a different location?
Please tell us anything you think that might help to understand what happenend.
Sometimes images appear to be missing, but are only hidden.
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Have you looked at the searchfields in the browser and Inspector if they are cleared and are showing "All Items" or "Showing all"?
Have you opened the correct Aperture Library? If you type ".aplibrary" into the Spotlight searchfield in the upper right corner of your screen, do you see more than one Aperture library?
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