Aperture hangs up after iphoto library import

I had a trial version of Aperture installed and then bought the version from the App Store. After importing the library from Iphoto I get the pinwheel and have to force quit to close.

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443 projects after iphoto library import - what the hey?

I recently imported 9500+ images to A3 via file->import->iphoto library and while all the images are in the A3 library, they are randomly split into a total of 443 projects (yes, I counted them thank you very much).
Is it possible to import the iphoto library to one project? Or at least to a number of projects in somewhat logical order? How does one do this?
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M

The projects created after an iPhoto library input directly relate to the iPhoto events, each Aperture project was an iPhoto event.

Update iPhoto Library Import

I imported my iPhoto Library previously with Aperture 1.5 as referenced files.
Since upgrading to Aperture 2, I have added new albums to iPhoto. These changes are not reflected in the iPhoto Library import in my Aperture Library. Since I have some versions linked to photos in some of the albums, I'd like to update that tree in place. Is this possible?
Importing iPhoto Library again just results in another, separate import.

I'm afraid the relationship between iPhoto and Aperture is not dynamic, and therefore they do not read each other's libraries. I don't think the idea of using the two in conjunction with each other has been considered - after all, is there something that Aperture does that iPhoto doesn't - and then some? I suspect that Import iPhoto Library command is there to help folks migrate from iPhoto to Aperture, and that thereafter Aperture is the primary organiser. Moving versions back to iPhoto is much more straightforward.
Regards
TD

IPhoto keywords lost on iPhoto Library import

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I've only got keywords for my family members, i.e. John, Rachel, Cora, etc. Do I have to create these keywords first in Aperture before doing the import?
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New York, NY

I tried a few more times, and now I've got the keywords. I'm not sure exactly why I was not getting them on the previous tries. I did not have to rebuild the original iPhoto library.

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I was having this same issue. When importing, Finder defaults to the Pictures folder where my iPhoto Library is found; however, I had to highlight it before clicking import to bypass this error. I'm not sure what else Aperture was looking at in that folder. I've never owned iPhoto earlier than the '09 version so there is nothing remotely related to version 7.

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iPhoto would not open for me shortly after upgrading to Lion. I rebuilt the library using command + option with all checkboxes checked. All JPEG thumbnails were present, but all RAW thumbnails just showed a black box with a dashed line. When I double click the missing thumbnail, the image does appear in iPhoto.
I then rebuilt the library a second time, but the problem is the same. The iPhoto library is in the normal place on the startup drive.
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As I say, I've seen it take 4 times to work.
Other than that:
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.

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Hi, just downloaded the trial of Aperture. I am attempting to import my iPhoto library and regardless of whether the location is maintained as references to the iPhoto library or set to the Aperture library when I click import nothing actually imports.
I have checked the iPhoto settings and all seems to be set correctly and also the online seminars and discussions but still no answer. Would it be because I am using the trial version?
Your thoughts please!
Thanks,
Ben

Do a little test to make sure you've got your iPhoto library correct. In Aperture go to File>Import>Images. With the {X} set pm Local Files, navigate to the iPhoto library you are using. Then you should see a list of all of your Albums, and if you click on Library, you will see your Events. You can import a few (I would suggest just setting "Store Files" to "In their current location" to avoid duplication) Folders or Events and then see if they appear in Aperture. This is in fact how I store my 40K image library. I keep it all in iPhoto and reference just the albums I need to work on from Aperture.
Good Luck!

Does Aperture recognize additions to iPhoto LIbrary?

I've imported my iPhoto library, letting Aperture reference back to the images in the iPhoto library.
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M

Do you have any photos that don't fit the criteria for the tv (should be JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF or PNG - some TIFFs won't work) or perhaps you have an illegal character (such as '/') in the filename or keywords. You could try making some new albums and slowly adding files to isolate culprits if you think this might be the case.

Photo stream after iPhoto Library Move

OK, so I have moved my iPhoto library to an external hard drive (had to clear up space on my MBP).
I now want to open iPhoto & generate a new library. My intention is to use this going forwards. I will not be regularly attaching the hard drive with the old Library, this will effectively just be archived & used as necessary
My question relates to photo stream. I start iPhoto & set up my new Library, I then choose to turn on photo stream. I am warned that turning on photo stream for this library will turn it off for my old library.
I just need to make sure I don't lose anything on this process. In other words, by turning off photos tram in the old library, I am assuming that it freezes things 'as was'.
If by turning off photo stream to the new library I am going to lose stuff, I would like to now beforehand,
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I just need to make sure I don't lose anything on this process. In other words, by turning off photos tram in the old library, I am assuming that it freezes things 'as was'.
Only one iPhoto Library or Aperture library can use photo stream at at a time. If you enable Photo Stream for a new library, all automatic imports will go to this new library, and you can only share photos from this new library. But no photos will be deleted from the old library. The transit should be seamless,

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After I finished importing an iPhoto Library, I noticed that I have some photos that are in Stacks.
The one difference I noticed was the keyword differences.
iPhoto Externally Edited
iPhoto Original
For some of these stacks, that all that appears to be different. The photos look the same.
For others, it simply seems to be one is rotated and one is not.
Is this normal?
Why would I want or need these stacks?
Also, do I have one or two masters? I'm assuming, since this is a Stack, that I must have two Masters. But I'm not sure how to tell. This is a Managed Library, so there are no referenced files that come up and Locate in Finder is grayed out.

Lots of different ways depending on how you created the alternate versions and how you name your images. BTW this holds for referenced as well as managed masters, makes no difference.
Easiest way, if you haven;t renamed the versions then they will all have the same version name with - version N added:
If you have automatically stack new version set then all the version will be in a stack.
You can filter for the filename, remember while the versions can be named anything all versions from a single master will have the same filename so
Select an image and look at its metadata for the filename, same rational as above.
MIght be move but these are the most common.

Is there a way to undo an iphoto library import?

I thought that I had lost my iphoto library... so I did a drag and drop of what I thought was the most recent backup to different desktop iphoto. I thought that the 2 libraries would merge so that I could see if the new library was the correct backup, it wasn't the correct backup, they didn't merge, so now I have lost my original library. Is there a way to undo this import?

I think there's a way to recover your original photos and video files:
1 - copy the Masters (iPhoto 11) or Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) to the Desktop.
2 - open the folder and type Command+F (find).
3 - select Kind is Image and File Size is less than 50 KB.
4 - in the search results window will be all of the very small thumbnail files.
5 - select all of the files and drag them to the Trash.
6 - reset the file size to 100 KB.
7 - check some of the photos to make sure that none are the original file even though they may be very small.
8 - reset the File size again to a size, maybe to 200 KB, that you are sure will not include any of your original files. If you think you might have files less than say 200 KB that would be your original files you will have to check each file found in the search and exclude from the drag to the Trash.
9 - select them all and drag to the Trash.
Now that should leave you with all the original files greater that the final size you used for your search AND all of your video files.
Now create a new iPhoto library and drag the Masters folder into it. That will import all of your files and keep the Events that you had in your original library.
HOWEVER, if you're running iPhoto 8 (09) you will have to import each subfolder inside the Original folder to get the same Events. If you drag the Original folder into the new library window they will be imported into one large event.
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Lost photos after iPhoto library rebuild - what happened?

After noticing that there were albums entitled Recovered photos in my iPhoto library, I deleted those albums. As expected, i got a message that i was not really deleting the originals, just getting rid of such albums. There were about 5 of those "recovered albums": one contained about 30 photos; three had zero and another had over 1000 photos. Subsequent to that, thinking of making this library totally clean, I decided to do a "libraty rebuild" using the option-command rebuild procedure of iphoto. I checked all the options presented for that procedure. To my surprise, when the process was finished I had less events, and less photos. A careful visual check of the display pane of events and photos confirmed that i had lost actual photos. I tried to reclaim those lost photos with another rebuild -- this time using iphoto library manager, but without success. What happened? Is there any way to reclaim those lost photos?
I do have a backup, but would prefer to correct the problem in the original library to avoid having to assemble and clean up duplicates that i had before.
I'm using the newest version of iPhoto: 8.1 and OS X 10.5.8 on a MacBook 2.4 Ghz - 2Gb Ram - 250 GB HD, 42 GB available. My iPhoto library has over 12000 photos

Why these things happen is always difficult to answer. My experience with iPhoto is using it since v1 on with a single library that's upgraded each new versions and migrated from G4 iMac to G5 iMac to Intel iMac and then a second Intel iMac. I load photos in, my wife does and my 12 year old does too.
And never had a problem.
The database gets corrupted when the app is interrupted when writing to it. The usual causes of this include a crash, a force quit or a lost connection to the Library on an external disk. More rarely minor disk or directory damage might be a cause.
I wondered when I read your report
Subsequent to that, thinking of making this library totally clean, I decided to do a "libraty rebuild" using the option-command rebuild procedure of iphoto. I checked all the options presented for that procedure.
The options presented for that procedure include various items that require the app to read the database file plus this one
Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
+I Wonder+ - I stress, I wonder, no more - if reading to rebuild various thumbnails from a file that is being vacuumed +while at the same time+ is being replaced by a backup is what caused the issue.
If it is, then the Rebuild from Back Up option should be sandboxed and not possible while the other events are going on.
But that's just a guess.
Regards
TD

Lost albums after iPhoto Library move

I recently moved my iPhoto library to an external harddrive and lost all of my albums that I had organized my photos into. iPhoto had trouble finding the library after I moved it, and the albums seemed to dissapear after that.
It's all backed up with TimeMachine, is there any way to retrieve the organized albums??
Thanks!

First off tell us exactly waht you did
the correct way to move the library to an EHD
Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
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Regards
TD

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