Aperture duplicated all of my keywords...

I had to rebuild the file allocation tables on my external hard drive. Aperture somehow duplicated all of the keywords and randomly, it appears, assigned the original keyword to some images and the duplicate keyword to other images. Is there any way to merge the keywords? Thanks

Yes there is, in the keyword HUD, drag and drop one on top of the other and a dialogue box will ask for confirmation that you wish to merge them.

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Aperture duplicating photo's

Has anyone else noticed Aperture duplicating photo's?
I imported about 1000 from a digital camera card earlier today and I'm just going through them now and can see a number of duplications (between 3 and 7 copies of each of the images that have been duplicated) all with the same name. I'm going through deleting them manually at the moment, is there a way to get it to check and delete duplications automatically? How do I stop it from doing it in the future as well?

I would highly recommend to never use that command -- just simply eject and then reformat the card in the camera.
Plus, if something did not get imported correctly, your one and only source to reimport has been wiped. Recommended workflow is to import, check the results, backup. Only then should you delete the contents of the card.

My gen 3 iPod Touch seems to have duplicated all my music since updating to IOS 5 so that it now only holds half as much. What can I do about it? I'm using the same iTunes library with OS 10.6 and all software up to date.

My gen 3 iPod Touch seems to have duplicated all my music since updating to IOS 5 so that it now only holds half as much. What can I do about it? I'm using the same iTunes library with OS 10.6 and all software up to date.

Is the camera damaged? Could be a hardware problem.
Try:
Close the Camera app in the multitasking bar, then try again.
Restart/Reset/Restore your iPod. In that order.

I was editing vacation photos in aperture 3 all of a sudden the thumbnail disappeared and now all i have is a vertical white line and an orange flag... how do i get my photo back? thanks

i was editing vacation photos in aperture 3 all of a sudden the thumbnail disappeared and now all i have is a vertical white line and an orange flag... how do i get my photo back? thanks

     Hi Frank.
     I have just had jb Atlanta's problem while adjusting the contrast on a photo. I was creating a slideshow at the time. After a lot of reading up I was about to give up when I tried restoring the file to its original settings as you suggested. Bingo!
     However, that would only work for me, if I restored the settings while in the slideshow. All data had 'disappeared' when I attempted to open the photo in its original project folder.
     Hope this is of help. Many thanks.

I have a MacAir installed with Aperture. All my photo's are stored on exdternal drive. How do I upload all these to iCloud - some 50 GB and 10,000 photos? My iCloud has 200GB storage.

I have a MacAir recently installed with Aperture. All my photo's are currently stored on external hard drive in 100s of folders. How do I upload all these photos in their folders to iCloud. My iCloud storage is 200GB.

Wait, until MacOS X 10.10.3 has been released his spring. The Photo.app for Mac, that will come with MacOS X 10.10.3 will make it possible to migrate an Aperture library to a Photos Library and store it in iCloud, so you can use it from all your devices, see this link: Apple - OS X - Photos Preview
But Aperture libraries cannot by stored in a cloud storage. An Aperture library needs to be on a locally mounted drive, because aperture does not support remote access to the library. If you try to move your Aperture library to a Dropbox or on iCloud Drive, it will be corrupted by the network access.
See Apple's recommendations: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library

Exporting: How to include all metadata but keywords?

When exporting to JPEG, is there any way to export all of the metadata that is currently exported, but exclude just the keywords? I know there is an option to minimize metadata on export, but that seems to remove everything but the copyright information. I know you can also right click on individual keywords in the library panel and uncheck the "include on export" checkbox. It seems, however, that you cannot select all the keywords and apply this globally- you have to select each keyword individually and make the change (as far as I can tell).
So- what is the quickest way to remove just the keywords from an export, leaving all other metadata intact? Thank you.
- Dave

Yes, that works for individual keywords, but when I try to select ALL of my keywords at once and apply the change it does not save it. Since I have 200+ keywords, I'm looking for a quick, global solution.

Aperture lost all license and registration info

did a update install....and Aperture will not run....lost all it's registration info

thanks guys....good help...."enter your registration info" !!!!!!
had already updated to 1.5.6 so I figured I was ok on that front.
of course I have my registration info and will enter it....
I was curious why Aperture, of all things, lost it's info...none of my other apps did....and certainly none of the Apple apps should....but even Adobe or other vendors seemed ok....
my question was more curiosity related....why an Apple app and why Aperture????
Stephen

My itunes library has duplicated "ALL" my files with thier individual iclouds. How do i delete them all sa one group than rather to delete each individual file?

My itunes library has duplicated "ALL" my files with their individual iclouds. How do I delete them all in one single swipe rather than delete each one individually?

Try Edit > Preferences > Store and untick Show iTunes in the Cloud Purchases. With luck it should be OK if you turn it on again.
tt2

My itunes library has duplicated all of my music and would take me hours to delete one by one. What is a quick easy way to delete over 2,500 duplicates?

My itunes library has duplicated all of my music and would take me hours to delete one by one. What is a quick easy way to delete over 2,500 duplicates?

Apple's official advice is here... HT2905: How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library. It is a manual process and the article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls.
Use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to display duplicates as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group of identical tracks to remove. Sorting the list by Date Added may make it easier to select the appropriate tracks, however this works best when performed immediately after the dupes have been created. If you have multiple entries in iTunes connected to the same file on the hard drive then don't send to the recycle bin. This can happen, for example, if you start iTunes with a disconnected external drive, then connect it, reimport from your media folder, then restart iTunes.
Use my DeDuper script if you're not sure, don't want to do it by hand, or want to preserve ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this thread for background. Please take note of the warning to backup your library before deduping, whether you do so by hand or using my script, in case something goes wrong.
(If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed)
tt2

With the update to Aperture 3 all the Aperture symbols turned grey ??

After automatic download and installation of Aperture 3 all the Aperture symbols (top line (e.g. Import, Slideshow, Information) and in the info line at the left hand side of the frame (e.g., Mediathek, Projects, albums etc.) turned to grey color. They had blue, yellow and other colors before.
What to do or is that correct as it shows?

Hey Frank,
I was afraid hearing somebody saying: "It's correct".
What a silly change and what a shame. Couldn't Apple leave it up to the users to chose via 'option for grey/option for color?'
Looking through all the posts of this discussion I take it as an offend when reading:
"... you can easily replace the new grey icons with the old colour ones.
Just view package contents on aperture and goto the resource folder........
I'm a software user not a software maker.
Nevertheless, thanks for your answer.

HT2905 itunes has duplicated all my imported songs and not the albums so cannot use your solution

Itunes has duplicated all the songs of my library; how can you get rid of duplicates the quickest way possible knowing that I can't use
the suggestion to delete albums as they are the songs and not the albums which have been duplicated.

The script still works as intended whether you can pre-filter for duplicates or not. As of right now there may be an issue with some of my scripts if the library is displaying available iCloud purchases. Untick Edit > Preferences > Store > Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases if the script bombs complaining of missing object properites.
tt2

How can I show all of my keywords in iPhoto. there seems to be a limit on the number that can be used.

How can I show all of the keywords used in iPhoto. There seems to be alimit on how many can be displayed.

When I click the "Edit Keywords" button, I get a list of all keywords. I just added several hundred random keywords, and they are all visible, when I scroll the list in "Edit Keywords" view.
Have you the scroll bars hidden? You can enable the scroll bars in the System Preferences > General tab: enable "Show Scroll bars - always".

Changed disks in my RAID, Aperture lost all referenced masters.

I have a G-Speed eS RAID system. I had 4 X 1TB disks.
I decided to change the hard disks to 2TB ones to double my storage capacity.
I retained the same volume name. I backed up the 2.5TB of data to 3 other disks and then copied it back to my upgraded RAID.
So I have a completely identical file structure. My photos were in /Volumes/GS/photo, and this is where they are now. However Aperture lost all connections to the 35000 referenced files.
It seems that there is no way to tell Aperture that old /Volumes/GS and new /Volumes/GS is the same location from my point of view (is your point of view different?). This means I have to reconnect each one of the 100+ projects manually. I DO NOT LIKE THAT. Am I missing something, or is this a nasty oversight? Don't tell me that this is a "feature" and one can only move REFERENCED masters from within Aperture...
Note: Repairing or rebuilding the library does not help.

Your suggestion works, but
1) You have to first select all photos in the "photos" smart album. If you do select them all, "Reconnect All" will not work.
2) Most important, after reconnecting, I also told Aperture to rebuild my library. And it lost them again... The photos got connected to a <null> named drive which is shown as offline.
We are talking about a big deficit of reliability here...
I had a backup of my Aperture Library. So I reconnected the files again, without a Library rebuild this time.
But what if I need to rebuild my library in the future?? I AM SCARED...
No need to mention that I have lost all day moving around many gigabytes of data, reconnecting files, etc etc. This is hardly a productivity boost.
The worst part is that I like a lot the Aperture UI and I hate the alternative.
But Aperture is unfortunately unreliable.
Just play enough time with the loupe on my MacPro and the application will crash.

I duplicated all the pictures in my library. Is there any way to delete the duplicates at one time without going and deleting them one by one

I duplicated all my pictures. Is there any way to delete the duplicates without deleting them one at a time. I now have 44,000 pictures and have 22,000 duplicates

Easiest solution: restore from your back up.
Other than that: For dealing with duplicates in iPhoto check out Duplicate Annihilator or Decloner

ICal syncing with mac and iphone problem - duplicating all alarms.

I have a mobile me account linked to my office mac, my home mac and my iPhone and my wife's iphone. I have been using this to sync all my contacts and calendar for 18 months with no problems until just after christmas. It suddenly duplicated all my contacts and all my iCal alarms. To solve it I had to use time machine to take my ical and address book back a few days and then force everything to update from that machine.
This I thought solved it but now three weeks later it has duplicated all my alarms again. Why is this happening and how do I stop it? It does not inspire confidence in this system if it randomly changes things. How do I know it will not suddenly delete something? It is also very frustrating and time consuming to reset all the data back a few days.
Any help or advice would be appreciated.

The synchronization between iCal, MobileMe, and iPhone is one of the biggest embarrassments and disgraces Apple has yet to deal with.
For over a year, I have been battling duplicates with little success. Add to all this MS Entourage, which I had to install last year because Mac Mail doesn't play nicely with Exchange server. (My company uses Exchange for our mail, etc.) To be clear, the duplicate problem existed prior to the addition of Entourage 2008. So you are out of luck, Koolaide Fans; you can't point the finger at MS in this case.
After 6 months of struggling and fighting with Entourage (and because there is no native version of MS Project or Visio for Mac) I finally had to install VM Ware with Windows 7, MS Office 2007, Visio, Project, etc. The MS apps work perfectly under the Windows 7 session. So, I my functionality for business has been restored. However, I am left wondering why I have a Mac if it can't provide me the functionality I need for such basic things as Email, calendars, contacts, and tasks. I am to the point where I am basically doing everything in the VMWare session under Windows.
I am very pleased with my Mac's ability to do video editing, graphics, and sound using Adobe products. But again, I work in mainstream corporate America where 90% of the marketshare is still PC/Windows.
In the end, I am hoping someone from Apple can come forward soon and say "This is EXACTLY how you need to configure your Entourage/iCal/MobileMe/iPhone so that you aren't crippled by duplicates and other nonsense...." It really is ridiculous.

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