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I put these together because this stuff is so much easier to demonstrate than it is to talk about.
They are downloads, not streaming.
Be kind; public speaking is not my thing.
I hope this helps advance the discussion:
http://homepage.mac.com/frankpryor/openfiles/FileSharing95.html
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Answer 1

"You did not mention there is in fact a Redo that
will bring back each of those deleted versions, "
This is not true. You can re-open your file in
Photoshop, but all the work you just did on the file
the first time you opened it is gone.
My apologies, I had not noticed that and you are totally correct. Redo should bring back the changes but it does not, it just re-does the "open in external editor" command. That is bad.
This is an optimistic assumption. One would think
you'd notice there was a live round in the chamber so
why should there be a safety on the weapon?
Still think it an unlikely scenario within Aperture. You gave about the closest thing to a way I could see this happen (editing metadata and hitting undo when you make a mistake), but I'm not sure I've ever accidentally in the whole time I've been using computers hit "undo" more than once if I did not mean to. I just can't see many people making this mistake.
A flattened version without the functionality of
layers or the ability to leverage the work you've
already done creating layers and masks in the
previous version. NOT the same thing at all.
Not flattened, as I mentioned.
"Furthermore you neglect to mention how much space
you are using by keeping a separate PSD for each and
every one of your versions and backups."
This is a non-issue.
Actually it is, I know because I have worked the same way! It's damned annoying having to keep so many PSD files. Space is cheap but still not infinite, and the sheer pointlessness of keeping multiple PSDs with the exact same layers acorss them when all you are doing is something as simple as rotation and or cropping has always, always annoyed me long before Aperture was a gleam in Apple's eye.
Which brings up another issue you did not mention with your approach, layer synchronization. You make a PSD with a lot of layers, then you copy that and make another PSD with crop and rotation. Now you need to edit some layers (say a layer mask that was a little off) that appear in both (or perhaps three or four other versions). That *****, and has in the past artificially constrained me from making as many PSD files as I might really like to play around with variants on an image.
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I'm not sure what you mean here. From within Aperture
if I duplicate a layered file the duplicate will NOT
be layered as far as Aperture is concerned.
Wrong, as the master file for that version is an exact duplicate of your PSD. Your problem (and the bug they have) is that it's not accessible to Aperture, but "as far as Aperture is concerned" it has a real copy of your real PSD.
The difference is this; if Aperture really were saving out a flattened version you would not be able to fix things with a simple software update. The way things are an update could easily change one flag and you'd be editing those duplcated versions with the layers you had stored. There is a large differenc in degree of the two possible bugs even though on the surface they appear the same.
Access to
any subsequent layered versions requires exporting a
Master and working on it outside of Aperture.
Or editing it directly in the Aperture library package, just like browsing any other directory and editing with Photoshop. Since I see no significant difference in time spent in Finder I can't see the problem.
In
point of fact the workflow is so unwieldy as to make
it much easier to do ALL of that finish-work outside
of Aperture and once it's outside I can't think of a
single compelling reason to bring it back in. I think
the vids demonstrate that.
Your vids claim that to be sure, but what I don't see is other scenarios when trips back into aperture are of use like comparing different versions you have made against one another (say different monchromatic color tones, or multiple different crops from the same image). That is why it's worth a small amount of effort to edit from within the Aperture library and maintain versions there.
Indeed if I were more suspicious I would wonder why the video on Aperture workflow makes such heavy use of the only adjustment that cannot be lifted/stamped across multiple versions.