Aperture iphoto link- crashes?!

Question

do i not learn? i tried once again to UP?grade from iphoto '09 (8.1.2) to '11 (9.1.1)... eventually, hours later........... time machine backups again back to 8.1.2......... iphoto OK but
aperture is broken, i tried to reinstall app. from disk, time machine.. nada
images @ pictures aperture library are still fine.. right click on the library....
any suggestions to re-surrect the aperture app?
thx- francois

Answer 1

ctheisinger,
Welcome to the user-supported Aperture discussion group.
I used the iphoto 11 to Aperture link ... imported some images from Aperture into iphoto.
There is no such thing as "the iPhoto to Aperture link". You are trying to use Aperture and iPhoto together, and that will not work. You should choose one and use only that one. Aperture knows about iPhoto enough to initialize your Aperture library when you first use it. iPhoto knows enough about Aperture to be dangerous. If you use the "Show Aperture Library" function, you should really only use it to temporarily put Aperture photos into an iPhoto library *for the purpose of some function missing from Aperture*, and there are really very few. The only one that I can think of is to use Apple's printing services for cards and calendars, which is not available in Aperture. I.e., don't use both iPhoto and Aperture for digital management.
How can I tell iphoto the new location of the Aperture library for the images which are already referened in iphoto?
That is really an iPhoto question. Someone here with recent ties to iPhoto may be able to help, but we are all Aperture users first, and some posters were iPhoto users.
nathan
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