Aperture library gone

A few weeks ago i clicked into my aperture icon and there was only one picture in the library and the girl in the apple shop clicked some buttons and restored the proper library back. Please can someone tell me how to do this as I have lost my library again and cant recall how she restored it

Use the 'File->Switch to Library' menu
Your previous library will probably be listed in the top section of the pop-up menu, but if it isn't, select 'Other/New' and Aperture will show you a list of all the Aperture libraries it can find:
If you see your library in the list, select it and press the choose button.
Another possibility; are you using an external drive for the library and 'losing' it when the drive is unplugged?
Andy

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After one week playing around with aperture, i want to share my current insights with 'customizing' (my) aperture's way of dealing with my picture files.
Warning:
The following thoughts and arrangements are working for me, they're
undoubtly NOT supported by apple and the programmers of the aperture
application!
Reading a lot of articles in the forum when aperture hit the masses, i've been disappointed about how aperture will fit with me.
Over the years my growing picture collection moved over from one computer to the other, deploying more storage, and will continue to do so in the future. So the technical equipment has to be independent from the treasure's of my data, to follow state of the art hard- and software development.
For me, aperture approved to be of such a kind.
Despite aperture stores away all my digital masters into it's own Library, thus duplicating data during imports, it just brings in some kind of more detailed
directory hierarchies to my way of organizing my picture library. How does it do?
How do i store my Library?
Sorry to be that longish, but to explain my concepts i have to.
Modern operating systems distinguish private/personal and public/common data for their file storage locations. Hopefully they follow the 'FHS' (Filesystem-Hierarchical-Standard) brought up by linux, to name the diverse locations for classified data.
I do run mixed os'es within my networks, as no computer should be isolated from a networked environment anymore. But to be honest it's more a single-user situation in reality, then the multi-user aspects i always keep in mind when designing my infrastructure environment for a network.
My picture library/online-archive is classified 'common' data, so it stores outside my home-directory, and every user allowed to, has access to it. I do not support locales within my filenaming-conventions, users and me are german-spoken, so the 'common' data for my systems is always called
'/Bibliothek'.
Furthermore we're dealing with pictures (Bild), movies (Film), music (Musik) and documents (Dokumente) in all common used operting systems (os x, windows), storing private data to the home-directory within appropiate directories and public/common data to the equivalent directories at a common storage.
/Bibliothek
/Bibliothek/Bildarchiv
/Bibliothek/Filmarchiv
/Bibliothek/Musikarchiv
BTW, i customized windows to reflect this filetree within explorer windows, so users click to 'Eigene Bilder' (my pictures) and 'Bildarchiv' (common pictures) there, to change between directories, making it very convenient to work with.
Especially the 'common' picture files are strongly organized by date, which is reflected at the directory-structure, for example:
'/Bibliothek/Bildarchiv/2004/2004-04-17, make a good description/'
'/Bibliothek/Bildarchiv/2005/2005-12-00, a bunch for the whole period/'
A descriptive directory name is highly portable between operating systems, applications and last but not least, users!
For now, aperture seems to be pretty much a single-user solution.
But it's library can be 'distributed' to accomodate my needs.
I started to import my data by drag'n'drop, which works best for me. I didn't like the import assistent, which seemed to result in a different structure of my data in aperture's 'all projects' list. By creating a folder in aperture for the year, then drag'n'drop the multi-selected directories from the finder, i got within aperture:
All Projects + * (<-Aperture)
<div class="jive-quote">Library (smart-albums, collapsed)
2005 (folder)
2005-11-00 (folder, nested)
2005-11-17, sample bla (project, from directory)
Images from 2005-11-17, sample bla (album, inherited)
2005-12-08, take a better name (project)
Images from 2005-12-08, take a better name
Using aperture's preferences to switch between libraries i did import to different aperture libraries for the years, resulting in a bunch of directories, each holding an 'Aperture Library.aplibrary' paket there.
/Bibliothek/Bildarchiv/2004/2004.aplibrary
/Bibliothek/Bildarchiv/2005/2005.aplibrary
Yes, the pakets can be renamed, to better reflect whats in there. Aperture has to be restarted to change from one library to another!
The total amount of imported data, yet: 130 GB, ~33164 pics.
I am working with a 15" powerbook, 1,5gb ram, 80 gb hdd on the road and a 200gb external drive at home/office.
to make me feel comfortable with aperture, i switched to (terminal hacking!):
~me/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary/
~me/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary/2004/ ->
/Bibliothek/Bildarchiv/2004/2004.aplibrary
~me/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary/2005/ ->
/Bibliothek/Bildarchiv/2005/2005.aplibrary
~me/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary/Texturen/ ->
/Bibliothek/Bildarchiv/Texturen/Texturen.aplibrary
~me/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary/...
/Bibliothek/Bildarchiv/2004/2004.aplibrary
/Bibliothek/Bildarchiv/2005/2005.aplibrary
/Bibliothek/Bildarchiv/Texturen/Texturen.aplibrary ->
/Volumes/HD39.1/Bibliothek/Bildarchiv/Texturen/Texturen Library.aplibrary
Linking folders to where i believe they are right placed in my systems.
Now aperture's settings don't have to be changed each time to switch between libraries. Not connecting the external hdd gives me grayedout
folders within aperture, for data stored on the external drive. Having a folder located on my inetrnal hdd and 'linked' to aperture:
~me/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary/local ->
/Bibliothek/Bildarchiv/working.local.aplibrary
i can work with aperture normally, even if the external drive is not available.
the grayedout folders/subfolders/projects are browsable, but all thumbnails are just gray rectangles with its 'version name' underneath. same with smart-albums. available pics have colored thumbnails, unavailable pics are gray, naturally.
And aperture's database? well, i am very happy with it, really. Compared to my pre-aperture structure all the above mentioned tweaking gave me:
~me/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary/Aperture.aplib/Library.apdb
This file is actually the sqlite3 database file. it's size is 111 MB now.
~me/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary/Local ->
/Bibliothek/Bildarchiv/Working.local.aplibrary
I can store pictures there into folders and projects when i am on the road, filling up my local harddisk. Inspecting the paket shows up how aperture differenciated my pre-aperture filestructure:
/Bibliothek/Bildarchiv/Working.local.aplibrary/2005-12-08, take a better name.approject/2005-12-08 @ 01/49/06 PM - 1.apimportgroup/DSC0168/dsc0168.nef
All nicely packed into a single unit from the finder, easily browsable from aperture, and searchable by sql queries. Every Master enclosed in its own folder box, hm. Every import of files seperated to one folder, which makes clearly apparent that we will import redundant(duplicate) files for ever.
Adding two/three levels to my previous filestructure, strange namings all inclusive. As i sort my files with aperture into projects, the files accordingly move around at the filesystem-level. I'll let them go. They are there if i need access to them in case of failure.
T H E G L I T C H E S
within my setup the most current sql database is stored at:
~me/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary/Aperture.aplib/Library.apdb
importing the way i did results in a sqlite3-database file for each library i switched to before linking them together. Right after linking one of those aplibrary pakets as a new folder, aperture will rebuild the current database at startup, which can indepently be invoked with 'option command aperture' anytime the program is started.
Changes to the metadata of a picture are written to the current database aperture is running on, but can be transfered to any other database file
when rebuilding the library at startup (which can be a time-consuming thing!)
Even if the external hd is reconnected before startup, some thumbnails are not properly generated all the time. At the current state i don't have any glue what's the cause for this. All Versions are properly accessable anyway.
Once again,
DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK,
if you try some of the suggestions i've made. Better you know how to handle a terminal before you even think about what i told here. Don't bother me, if something does not work for you - it works for me.
I can do this because it's my data, i am the only one affected by failure and i still do have my data on my windows system as a backup, for now.
Do the same before you trash your treasures.
Why i did made this post? Aperture really lacks support for team-working now. I cannot see how aperture can be really employed to its potential for an environment with more than a single user?. The sqlite3 database is said to handle concurrent users, i read on its homepage. So i still hope, there will be a group-worked aperture someday.

my reports, just for the logs.
drwxr-xr-x 2 fo03c fo03c 68 Dec 19 20:15 ArchiveInfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 fo03c fo03c 362 Dec 19 20:17 DataModelVersion.plist
-rw-r--r-- 1 fo03c fo03c 173107200 Dec 20 00:26 Library.apdb
comparing the timestamps, the time needed to recreate 'my' library, is:
4h 11 min.
The sql database contains 972 projects with 57952 picture items, as the startup overlay tells me. not that bad, i think. depends on the situation, and how much zen you learned, if you can wait for the 'recreate'.
but i didn't stop to mature aperture!
i switched to one of my 'old' libraries (choosing from preferences panel) and set some new
a) ratings
b) keywords
c) deleted a master from that 'old' library.
after changing back to the 'linked' aperture database file (within my home-directory, as described previously), and restart aperture -
yes, it crashed! oops.
yet another try - crash. i realized, i deleted the first pic from the 'current view' aperture tries to load after relaunch. ?! =:-(
if the database is corrupted again, i would have to reinvest ~4 hours to recreate the database? but how about the preferences?
apple this is a bug! when i made the preferences file
~me/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Aperture.plist
UNAVAILABLE (delete or rename as you like), aperture starts with the import assistent, as at its first time.
Since then i can start aperture and navigate to the project i deleted the file from (very unpolitly). The corresponding thumbnail shows up with a new 'icon' to lower right corner of the thumbnail. It clearly means: this file is UNAVAILABLE.
YES =:-) i deleted it!
the rating and keywording on the 'old' database is gone -
thus making the precedence of the database against the sidecars obvious, doensn't it?
selecting the 'orphaned' thumbnail, now leaves aperture with the message 'loading', but it does not crash. Changes in ratings or keywording to the current library (the 'recreated' new one) on different files are persitent across restarts of aperture. btw, aperture restarts with the focus on the orphaned first thumbnail, now marked with the icon 'i am NOT available', but it does not crash anymore, when starting.
my conclusion:
someone in the forums pointed towards the difficulties maintaining a database of pictures and the separation of their storage, as users will delete or move files seperated from that database, breaking everything.
NO, aperture does widely tolerate such doing.
But why should we do so? =:-)f
For me: its fun, i will not complain about failure, when i do mature an application like this.

Ipad won't sync with photos from Aperture - library cannot be found

Ok I give up. When trying to sync my photos onto my new ipad from Aperture in iTunes I keep getting the message "iTunes cannot sync photos to the ipad because your Aperture Library could not be found. Open the preferences window in Aperture and enable the preference to share previews with other applications. Well the library is where it should be in the Home folder and then pictures. I have the latest version of iTunes and Aperture. The only similar setting I can find in Aperture preferences is under Previews and Share Previews with ilife and iwork, no mention of itunes?
I've gone into my Aperture show contents and deleted the cache folder ipod photo cache (I previously synced to my iphone 3GS). It works syncing to iphoto, as I have tested it and the iphoto is in the same folder as the Aperture library so they are in the right location.
I am now at a loss as to what to try next......PLEASE HELP ME....
I don't want to have to have a Aperture library and an iphoto library on the go!

Hi,
iTunes cannot sync photos to the ipad because your Aperture Library could not be found.
If you have an external drive connected to your Mac, disconnect that, restart your Mac, restart your iPad and try syncing photos from Aperture.
Carolyn

Aperture Library Issues on NAS - Advice Needed

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Need some practical advice here. I've got a 90GB Aperture library that resides on a NAS (QNAP 419P II) that is experiencing major issues. Understood that having the library live on a non-HFS+, non-local drive is not advised by Apple, but it's been there for two years with no issues to speak of.
I had a power failure occur that seems to have done some damage to the library in some way. Upon opening the library, I got an error that said that there were inconsistencies with the file and that it needed to be repaired. I repaired it, and noticed something strange. In almost all files, the picture resolution was poor and both the camera and lens information was gone--in addition to the fact that the Adjustments capability was disabled.
I ran the Aperture first aid and ran all three processes--concluding with the full library rebuild. It looked to be successful and resolution, previews, and picture info returned--but halfway through the preview reprocessing the process just stopped and the beach ball of death ensued. I let it run overnight and it never recovered. I had to force quit and now if I reopen the file it say that there are inconsistencies and that the library needs to be repaired, which won't help.
I also tried to move the library off of the NAS an onto the local drive, but encountered an Error - 50 message--something that apparently is well known in the NAS world where Mac permissions get screwy when dealing with non HFS+ drives.
I have a backup of the original library, but it is sitting in a cloud repository (CrashPlan) that will take time and money to restore.
All of the masters are intact in the Aperture directory, and I have very few major adjustments made to any photos. Aperture is really just a repository for me.
So any practical advice would be appreciated as to how I can create a new local Aperture library and get all of the existing photo files there. I am pretty much giving up on the idea of getting the existing NAS-based library to work properly, so this is more of a real-world question on how to create a new library and eliminate whatever issues there are with the other Aperture files. It looks like everything in the Aperture package is in place, but the library itself is just malfunctioning.
I am also considering moving everything into iPhoto as well, as Aperture may simply be more than I need for my usage. If is is faster and a but simpler to manage, that could be the right answer as well.
Thanks in advance for any ideas or guidance.

The problem is most likely with the library itself being located on the NAS.
But you can have a hybrid solution where the library is located on your internal drive while the actual image files are located externally, eg on your NAS. Image files stored within the Apeture library are called "managed" while image files stored externally are called "referenced". Whichever approach you take, the process is the same:
If you try to make a new Library from your masters, you will lose your project structure. The resulting mess will be in accordance to how you created your projects. Basically, if you look at your Masters folder, that's what you'll end up with when you import your masters. If that isn't a problem, the process is simple
Step 1: Prep.
Move or copy your masters out of the library bundle to a folder (to make them more accesible in finder).
Step 2: Create new library.
Within Aperture, from the File menu "Switch to Library -> Other/New..." to create a new Library on your internal drive.
Set the preferences to indicate previews/faces etc. I'd turn these off for now as they will slow you down.
Step 3: Import your images.
Within your new library, File -> Import - Folders as Projects. This gives you a dialog where you specifiy what and where to import.
If you choose "Import folders as: Folders and Projects" you will get a folder structure that matches the Masters folder, with projects at the end of the chain with names like 20120213-200100.
If you choose "Import folders as: Projects and Albums" you will get a single Project called "Masters" with a folder and Album structure that matches the Masters folder.
Neither of these will look particularly great. If you want to avoid this mess, here's what I'd try.
Fix your library again like you did before. After the rebuild, go to the Aperture activity window (SHIFT + CMD + 0) and cancel the preview generation process before it has chance to hang. This should give you a sem-functional library, hopefully functional enough for the next step:
Select all images and use File -> Relocate Original to move your original files out of the library. During this process you can specify that the originals are stored in sub-folders that match the project name, within a parent folder if required.
This gives you a much neater structure for importing into your new library where the projects will get the folder names (which will be your existing project names). It may not be perfect, for example if you have the same project name in different folders and don't/can't segregate them, but it's a lot cleaner than just importing your masters folder.
Andy

ITunes can't find Aperture Library for iPad sync

I just upgraded from iPhoto '11 to Aperture 3. When trying to sync my iPad, and telling iTunes to now sync photos from Aperture, I get the following message:
"Your Aperture Library could not be found. Open the preferences window in Aperture and enable the preference to share previews with other applications."
All well and good, but when I go to the preference pane in Aperture, I do not see the referenced option. Under the "Previews" tab (Aperture > Preferences > Previews) I see the options for "Share previews with iLife and iWork" (Always/When quitting Aperture/Never)--is that the preference indication they mean? None of those options results in iTunes being able to see my Aperture library.
Oddly, Aperture can see and import photos on my iPad that are not already in my Library, but claims it cannot send photos in the other direction because the library can't be seen. Frustrating

This is a repost from another thread dealing with what I think is the same issue. It is what ended up working for me:
I have gone through a lot of steps and they all seem to have inched me closer to resolving this issue. My original post may have been cluttered so I'll list the steps I took here. The final step, though very time consuming seems to have corrected most of the problems, though I think I now need to get Aperture to generate new previews for all of my images at a size that the iPad likes (1920x1920).
1. Set Aperture's preference to Always share with iLife applications
2. Set Aperture's preference to generate previews at 1920x1920 or better
3. Repair Permissions via the Aperture Library First Aid function described here (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805). You may want to do one of the more serious Library repairs just to get things organized with the file structure system but "Repair Permissions" seems to have been all I need to do.
4. Go to the top of your image hierarchy and reprocess all of the images with the newest Aperture RAW convertor by control-clicking on Photos and selecting "Reprocess Masters"(if you shoot RAW... and you should shoot RAW). It gives you several options, I chose to preserve all of my edits which will add additional time to the process but is worth it so you don't have to re-edit everything. I selected "All Photos" and "Reprocess Existing Images"
If you have a large library (1TB or more) you are now two days or so into this process.
5. Back up your Vault to save these changes
6. Generate new previews since you changed the size in which Aperture saved the JPEGs it uses to export to Aperture. I believe this is done from the top of the image hierarchy as well by holding down the option key when you right-click on the whole library. But, I am not at this stage yet so I can't be sure about that.

Accidental PS edit save to the Aperture Library / How to remove

In my haste I accidentally saved a ps edit to the aperture library instead of the desktop. Normally I wouldn't be concerned about it but it's meant to print to mural size and it's huge. I can see it in the save directory via PS but am otherwise unable to get to it via the finder.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks

All this is a big help but...
I think he might be asking how to navigate the Aperture library via finder because he can't see the file in Aperture. Maybe not. In any case you can right click on the Aperture library and use show package contents to navigate within the library.
If you do be berry berry careful when hunting wabbits.
RB
Ps. Was that tactful enough or is someone gonna call me names?

Iphoto not showing "show aperture library" as an option

Hi
I have Aperture 3.03 and I have clicked on the "share library with ilife" in the preferences window. When I go to iphoto, I click on "File" and that "share aperture library" option is gone, now where. I cannot click it because it is not listed. Any ideas on why this might be?

Have you generated Previews in Aperture? If you haven't then there's nothing for iPhoto to see.
Regards
TD

HT3805 Aperture (Current version) won't populate photo place holder from Aperture Library, found one photo that would, what's wrong?

Yesterday 10-4-2011, I downloaded the Aperture App. I haven't gone to my Aperture class yet, but wanted to know why the photo place holder in an email stationary application will not accept a drag and drop from the Aperture library. I did find only one photo that actually did populate, what do you think is the difference with all the rest of my photos?
I did import all my photos and movies to Aperture from the iPhoto Library and then deleted my iPhoto Library.
Thanks

Yesterday 10-4-2011, I downloaded the Aperture App. I haven't gone to my Aperture class yet, but wanted to know why the photo place holder in an email stationary application will not accept a drag and drop from the Aperture library. I did find only one photo that actually did populate, what do you think is the difference with all the rest of my photos?
I did import all my photos and movies to Aperture from the iPhoto Library and then deleted my iPhoto Library.
Thanks

Disappearing MobileMe galleries in Aperture library

I created several MobileMe galleries over the past few days, and was successful in publishing them (although this took a couple of tries). Last night I added a few more photos to one of the galleries and tried to resync. After a couple of minutes, it looked like the process was hanging. Before I could cancel it, however, my entire screen turned gray and displayed a message that said I would have to perform a hard restart. (It's the first time I've ever seen that screen in several years of using a Mac.)
After I restarted, Spotlight reindexed my hard drive. When I opened aperture, my library seemed intact except for the MobileMe galleries. They were completely gone. They're not gone from the MobileMe servers: I can still view those photos online, but they aren't in my Aperture library, and I'm unsure how to relink them. Does anyone know if this is possible, or should I just start over?

I haven't experienced anything like you describe, but there is definitely some bugginess with A3 and MM.
One user suggested checking for published photos in A3's MM preferences to get previous galleries back in the list. DON'T DO IT!
!http://dlsphoto.com/a3MM4.jpg!
When I tried it, the images seemed to be downloading not syncing. When it was done, all my previous galleries were in the list but empty, and "visit gallery" grayed out.
!http://dlsphoto.com/a3MM2.jpg!
If I go to Settings and click publish I get an error that won't go away no matter how many times I click OK. It just pops right back up, and I have to force quit to get out of it.
!http://dlsphoto.com/a3MM3.jpg!
This isn't an answer but a confirmation of problems with A3 and MM.
DLS

Trying to rebuild aperture library using Masters

I have been having a problem with my photos for months now. Some have disapered and some have just gone crorupt. Made an appointment at the genuis bar and they told me i need to rebuild the library using the masters file on my back up drive. I attempted to do this and all it does is keeps on crashing. Does anyone have any tips as it is now doing my head in

then go in to my external hard drive and find the masters folder.
Is that a Time Machine backup or a copy of your Aperture library? Or a folder with the original master files?
If it is a Time Machine backup, did you restore the "Masters" folder from your backup or drag it over? A TimeMachine backup needs to be restored.
I have managed to import some photos into a newly created library but would like to get all my photos back.
I have then left it to move the Photos but nothing seems to happen and when you right click on the aperture icon on the desk top it says appliction not responing and has an option to force to quit.
This looks like something in the Masters folder cannot be processed.
If you have enough space on you internal drive, create two new Aperture libraries - one for testing and one as the final version.
Open the test version in iPhoto, if you have iPhoto, and the final version in Aperture, so you can have bth libraries open at the same time.
Import only small sets of images at once, 100 images or so.
First import the 100 images into the test library in iphoto, and if that succeeds without hanging, import them into your Aperture library.
Continue to test this way. If iPhoto starts to hang, try to identify the image or video that cannot be processed, and remove it.

Corrupted Aperture Library - Any way to recover original RAW files?

Hi all - as a user since the initial release of Aperture, I'm afraid I've run into my first show-stopper of a problem with Aperture 2.01. At some point (and I can't seem to see where) about 15 projects in my library have become corrupted, where I have only blank grey thumbnails for each image. Clicking on any image gives me a lighter grey image in the viewer window.
Even worse - if I select an image and try the view Master command (M), I get a lovely "Invalid Image Format" in red. I understood that the RAW files were stored inside of the aperture library file and was fairly confident that even in the worst-case I would just lose my meta data and edits.
I've exported out the projects that were still intact into seperate project files which I'll re-import after a fresh install of aperture (once I get past my emergency status)
Seems I was wrong. Restoring from my last few Vault backups (up to a month ago) has not resolved anything (or the corruption occurred far earlier).
Any assistance in recovery strategies is greatly appreciated. Otherwise I'll end up walking away from a good set of 10,000+ shots. (my current library is around 55k images)
Is there someone I can contact at Apple Support directly for assistance?!?
Thanks in advance,
Ted

Thank you kindly for the suggestions - the Show Packages option did not show any of the affected projects (in fact even the folders were missing).
Sadly also my vault copies where also missing. It would seem that somewhere along the line the files themselves were deleted from the drive without updating the Aperture library.
It looks like I'll have to suck it up this time - as I haven't been able to identify any recoverable archives - all my vaults see to be empty or suffering the same missing images syndrome. I've found a few very old copies of a portion of past shoots, but the bulk are gone. Needless to say I'm not very happy atm.
Me thinks I'll have to be more diligent about burning and DVD of each shoot immediately after I import them into Aperture going forward.
My next question is how can I guarantee a fresh re-install of Aperture? Is simply deleting icon from my Applications folder sufficient?
Thanks again for your suggestions!

Transfer Aperture library to Lightroom

I have to make the switch to Lightroom as my current main camera, Leica M8, is properly supported only by Lightroom.
Now after downloading Lightroom 1.0 I am trying to figure out a strategy how to transfer my old Aperture library to Lightroom. Of course I only plan to transfer originals - I have to accept that all my adjustments in Aperture are gone.
But more importantly what is a good way to transfer the existing folder & project structure of Aperture to Lightroom without too much extra work? The export function of Aperture seems a little bit limited to automatically generate a folder structure on my HD which is identical/similar to my projects and folder within Aperture.
Any idea?
Thanks
Tobias

You are correct, all Aperture settings will not move to LightRoom.
However, Lightroom adjustments are interchangeable with the new ACR 3.7 and ACR 4.0(CS3 beta).
ACR now supports more than 150 cameras, including the Nikon D40 and the Pentax K10D. And though the cameras don't appear on the official compatibility list, Phase One shooters will be happy to know that Lightroom and ACR now (unofficially) support a number of P1 cameras (H20, H25, P20, P21, P25, P30, & P45), and Fuji customers have preliminary support for the S5.
Transfer your data from Aperture one project at a time.
Build a similar directory structure as your project/folder structure in Aperture, then go into each project and export masters to the corresponding external structure.
Exporting masters is quick as it is only copying data.
Just do it, get it over with
Then fire up LightRoom and import.

Any experience backing up an Aperture Library with Crashplan?

To be sure, I'm not using Crashplan for a primary backup. However, in the case of disaster, I'd like to move from my regional backup model to a backing up using a service. I realize that those of us who use a backup services with large libraries are on the fringe, but we all want to keep our libraries, don't we?
The Crashplan forum has few old articles allude to the fact that backing up an Aperture 2 library using Crashplan is not advisable.
The Aperture 3 library format has changed quite a bit.
What have your experiences been using Crashplan and Aperture 3? Have you attempted a restore after significant modification to your Aperture library, such as adjustments, moving projects, adding/deleting images, faces, places, etc.?

I just conducted a test with Aperture 3 and Crashplan. The results were unexpected. Here's how I performed the test, and what I learned:
I created a project, imported files, made some adjustments, and ran a Crashplan backup. Once the backup completed, I opened Aperture, moved projects, made additional edits, including brushes, changed metadata, altered faces, places, and tags. I emptied the trash, then rejected and deleted more files, and changed ratings.
I did the above three times, running Crashplan along the way, even with Aperture open. I restored my library, then compared the original and restored Aperture libraries.
The number of images, faces, places, metadata, adjustments, ratings, trash, and rejected items all matched. I did find two notable discrepancies. The source library when I began the restore had gone from 4.7 GB to 2.49 GB, primarily because I had deleted several movies. The restored library in CrashPlan and on my disk (once restored), was 4.63 GB. When I opened the restored library, it regenerated thumbnails and/or previews. The file resulted in 4.69 GB when complete.
What was taking up the additional 2GB? The movie files were still under the masters folder. They did NOT appear in the rejected items, trash, or any other project. They were, however, in the masters folder. I tried rebuilding the Aperture database, and importing it into a new project. I could not reduce the size of the library because the deleted files remained.
So . . . Crashplan appears to be holding on to these deleted files. The good news is, the database appears to be just fine otherwise. Any ideas on how to repair an Aperture 3 database to remove the files and shrink the library as necessary, if a restore is required?

Aperture library gone

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