Aperture library upgrade lost pictures

Hello,
I seem to be stuck with no way of getting my Aperture library back. I've upgraded to aperture 3.2, but everytime that I try to upgrade a library, I lose all the photos. What I'm left with is a bunch of blank thumnails and images that show a small box with an arrow poping out. If I ask aperture to find the file in finder it says that the hard drive is offline (same device name as current hard drive). I'm really stumped as to what to do. I've tried to rebuild the libraries, delete preference files for aperture, rebuild thumnails/previews, but nothing seems to improve the situation.
My setup:
Libraries are linked to files in folders, they don't move or copy the files. I have a Macbook pro running Snow Leopard, and aperture 3.2 installed.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I need to get at some wedding photos I took.
Cheers,

Libraries are linked to files in folders, they don't move or copy the files.
You'll need to explain this in more detail.

Similar Messages

HT2638 Aperture library seems lost/ unreadable? iphoto prompts ?

Im having trouble opening up an aperture library. Computer asks to open using iphoto - and to upgrade it - well that's been done...
next window says
"Your photo library is either in use by another application or has become unreadable"
These photos are important and cannot be lost but I am a bit desperate here... Can anyone help/advise ?

Obviously the best plce to ask is on the Aperture forum. But you could try rebuild the library:
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places 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.

Cannot access Aperture Library to send pictures by email

When I click on attachment in mail program it gives me Macintosh HD, then I go down and click on Pictures then I click on Aperture Library and it gives me an icon, white box with black lens and it lists name, size, kind, etc. No list of projects or pictures that I have in Aperture.
When I follow this same procedure for iPhoto, I get a list of all the projects I have in iPhoto and of course all the individual pictures which I can choose to include in my email.
I am using a Western Digital external hard drive for backing up my photos that I have in Aperture. It is a My Book, with 500 GB.
I noticed in Applications, that the application for Aperture is as follows: Aperture, Library.aplibrary.app, is this correct. Seems like to me it should be Aperture, Library.app.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Bob Plunkett

To add pictures use File > Mail... and Aperture will create a new email message. Drag the images from the new email to the one you were working on.
Another solution is to generate previews for the images you want (or the who project, album etc.). The drag and drop will work as expected.

Created " iPhoto Library" ontop of my "iPhoto Library" and lost pictures

Hello,
I was trying to create a new iPhoto Library file. I held down the option key and created a new file. But I forgot to give it a different name. Now I can not find my photos from the first "iPhoto Library" anywhere.
I'm surprised at how easy this was to do accidentally. It never asked me "Are you sure you want to replace the exsisting iPhoto Library." as one might expect.
My library is on a second hard drive that I have not touched yet. So I imagine the files are still there, just somehow the directory overwritten. Help!
I do own Data Rescue by Prosoft, but I'm hoping to find an easier/cleaner solution. I can't imagine that I'm the only person to have ever made this mistake. Thanks in advance.

In the circumstances you describe, it's iunlikely to have overwritten the Original library. The new library will have been called iPhoto Library Folder_1.
Try holding down the option (or alt) key bution again, on launching iPhoto, choose LOCATE and navigate to the library location. See if that helps.
Regards
TD

Preview and Pictures lost in my Aperture library after Leopard Upgrade :(((

Hi,
So I was using Aperture 1.5.5 on Tiger 10.4.10 with bench of folders and pictures in it. I backup my Aperture Library file, and then reinstalled my whole system with Leopard, then reinstalled Aperture from original CD, then did the upgrade to 1.5.6 and then put back my Aperture Library from my backup.
Then I start Aperture and begin of bad surprises When I click on a picture, it displays just one instant the preview of it, then I got a marroon background with and text that says (I translate as it's in french on my computer): Picture format not managed !! What does it mean ?? all these pictures opened smoothly with previous version of Aperture on TIger !!!
If I do a right click on that, picture displays correctly !!!!
Also something bad, I have some folders which contained bunch of pictures where I can see in list on left correct number of pictures, but when I select it, it looks empty (I have checked by hand in Aperture Library files and pictures are still there !!
What's wrong ? I must confess I'm pretty disappointed by how Apple manage migration to Leopard of that program where update to make it fully Leopard compatible is released just day of release of Leopard
Thanks for your help
Vincèn

Vincèn,
have you double-checked that Aperture uses the correct library (in Preferences) ?
Did you try pulling the Aperture prefs over from your backup also ?
And did you try a rebuild (depressing Cmd and Option during Aperture startup until the message comes up, choose Rebuild now, get a Coffee).
Note:
Even if all your images are referenced it's a good idea to use a Vault, as it backs up the structure (not the referenced images, of course).
Also ranting doesn't help getting answers. Asking a straight question is best, OK ?
I, like you, did a clean install and everything works just fine (everything, nor just Aperture).

Aperture keeps creating a new empty library in my Pictures folder

Hi, I am a noob with Aperture, so forgive me if this seems like a stupid question. I have searched through the manual, threads here and Apples help pages but have not found my problem described or my question addressed.
First the problem:
I have set preferences in Aperture to set up and point to the Library on my External Firewire Drive. I exited as instructed and went back in the program and my new library came up without issue. I was able to import files from camera, iphoto, and some from files relatively easily and created new projects for them w/o much trouble. I closed the program and did not use it until the next day.
When I opened the Aperture from the dock the next day, a BLANK library greeted me pointing to my picture folder of my Mac user account. Sure enough I opened my pictures folder under my user account on the finder and there is a brand new Aperture library without any files in it. I checked my Firewire hard drive and (thankfully) the Aperture library I created there is still intact. When I clicked on the aperture library icon in my firewire drive, the program opened with my library listed. I then closed it, opened Aperture from the dock again and it opened to my firewire's drive library again...
So now I'm thinking this must have been a weird glitch. I deleted the Aperture library in my pictures folder on my user account and thought that would be that as the program continued to perform well all day...opening my created library when I opened from the dock each time...
Then, again the next day, I open Aperture and am greeted with a blank library...again pointing at my picture folder in my user account...sure enough the Aperture library icon is back in my pictures folder!
Does anybody know why this keeps happening. I want the default library to be the one I created on my firewire drive, but it keeps creating a new empty library in my user account picture folder, and defaulting to that when starting the program from the dock.
I am the only user account on this computer and the only person using the Aperture program.
Short of creating a desktop shortcut to my wanted firewire drive library and starting Aperture that way, is there any other workaround...as the blank library in my pictures folder keeps coming back even if I delete it.
Now the question:
If I want to create 2 different Aperture libraries (not 2 projects, but 2 distinct libraries) on my firewire drive, is there any way to access one then switch to another within the main program without having to go all the way out and start up by selecting the icon from the wanted one to do so?
Thanks for your anticipated help and (hopefully) your patience with a noob user.
Intel Core Duo iMac 20" Mac OS X (10.4.7) 2GHz/2GB 256VRAM

The setting is in Aperture-->Preferences. Just select the library you want to use, then exit the Prefs. Quit Aperture. Relaunch. It will use the library you selected.
If you double clicked on a library to open Aperture, it will make that setting in Prefs for you so the next time it should open that library again (assuming it's available at the time, not sleeping as externals often do).
Mark

Aperture Library/Database hacks

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.

Aperture Library location...

Help needed, please - I have Aperture and library running on my hard drive and a lot of images are now in place. I have also bought a 500gb external drive.
What I want to ask is:
Is it possible to move Aperture to my 500gb?
Is it advisable to do that, will it free up a lot of space on the Mac HD?
If it will free up a lot of space how do I move it, step-by-step?
All help & advice appreciated.

John
Is it possible to move Aperture to my 500gb?
Yes.
Is it advisable to do that, will it free up a lot of space on the Mac HD?
Advisable? It's certainly not a problem. It will free up as much space as the Library takes up.
If it will free up a lot of space how do I move it, step-by-step?
Are you using Managed or Referenced Masters? Assuming you are using Managed:
1. Quit Aperture
2. Copy the Aperture Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching Aperture. 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.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Regards
TD

How do you export aperture library to external harddrive?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Im trying to save my entire Aperture library to an external harddrive. What are my options other than using Time Machine? Thanks

Managed or Referenced Library?
Assuming it's a Managed library:
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit Aperture
2. Copy the Aperture Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching Aperture. 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.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
If you're using a Referenced Library then you'll need to relocate the Masters first.
Regards
TD

Aperture Library is full

My Aperture Library is full and I have just bought a G Drive. What is the correct way of making sure I am transferring all my photos to this external drive and creating space on my MacPro?
Many Thanks

Then you have a Managed Library.
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit Aperture
2. Copy the Aperture Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching Aperture. 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.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Regards
TD

Delete aperture library

How do I delete an aperture library?

Drag ~/Picture/Aperture/Aperture Library to the Trash if you wish to get rid of everything.
If you are talking abbout removing a library within Aperture. Then hilight the library and use the Delete Library icon in the file menu.
Allan

TS2518 Library upgrade stuck at 99%

The 3.2.4 Aperture library upgrade is getting stuck at 99% and maxing one of my CPUs seemingly indefinitely. I've force quit and restarted the process, but it's stuck again at 99%. I have a decent sized library, but not insanely huge or anything.
Anybody else experiencing this? Does it just take a really long time?

So I force quit Aperture, and did a "Repair Database" http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/usermanual/index.html#chapter=27%26se ction=10%26tasks=true
Less than five minutes later Aperture was open upgraded to 3.3.
So there you go.
P.S. Aperture is now maxing all 4 cores of my CPU, I assume, processing all the previews.

IPhoto library upgrade failed, one third of the photos lost, but the library works as normal. No corruption.

Hello! I recently replaced my tragically crashed Macbook Pro 2008 with a newer model and transferred my volumous iphoto library of 20 000+ photos to my new machine. To be able to use my iphoto '08 library with Aperture I had to upgrade the library in the iphoto '11 version. I left the computer on during the day, and when I got back it seemed to work fine. I browsed my library in Aperture and could see all the thumbnails, but looking closer I noticed a small yellow warning triangle with an arrow in the corner of some pictures. Turns out all pictures from before ~2010 are lost! When I wiev the photos I see nothing but the infinite black of the data void.
Here's how I've tried to fix the problem:
1. Opening the iPhoto Library package in Finder. All the folders for the earlier dates are there, but they are empty. I notice no incorrect or impossible dating, which seemed to be a common problem among users who's libraries where corrupted during the upgrade process.
2. Rebuilding the iphoto library in iphoto. No effect.
3. Recovering the iphoto library from my Time Machine Backup. SInce my old hard drive was just 200 GB, I stored all pictures older than one year on my external hard drive (note that about half of those pictures were successfully imported/upgraded). Both the internal and the external hard drive where backed up using Time Machine on a NAS from Seagate (Black Armor 110, 3TB). I was able to access backed up files on my external drive through Time Machine on my old computer, but since it is now rendered unbootable I tried using Migration Assistant to let my new computer inherit the old backup. However, I could not find the backup of the external drive in Migration Assistant, just my old internal drive. When I tried to access the backup volume on my NAS through Finder it didn't show up (I could find it that way on my old computer).
4. Googling "iPhoto library upgrade failed", or "Inheriting Time Machine backup of external drive", and similarily desperately specific phrases - Nothing useful. Other people seems to have had problems with corrupt Libraries, but I'm not sure that's the case here.
My pictures must exist somewhere on my computer and in a backup on my NAS. I just can't find them! Do anyone have a clue to what may have gone wrong? I'm afraid the computer might have gone to sleep during the upgrade, because I didn't thinkabout adjusting the power saving settings before starting it. But since pictures 1-8000-something are missing, it doesn't seem to have worked properly during the whole beginning of the upgrade, not just during the middle. As I knew I had a backup of the library I didn't worry about upgrading the single functional copy. From now on I will think thrice before doing anything as serious as this.
I am eternally grateful for any answers that might help me recovering my photos!
//Teodor Nilson

b) I split up my photo collection into two iphoto libraries. One for the new photos stored on my internal HD            and one for photos older than one year stored on my external HD
And exactly How did you Split up your iPhoto library?
c) I used Migration Assistant in an attempt to access the Time Machine backup of my old MBP from my new      MBP (by inheriting the backup). When I made my backups, I made sure Time Machine included the external      HD. But Migration Assistant could only find the backup of my Internal HD with the library of new photos!
And again
You should not use Migration assistant on an iPhoto library - it generally does not work
and
     d)   When signing in and mounting the NAS in Finder, I used to be able to see a Time Machine backup      folder/icon. Now I was unable to locate it.
I believe you are using your NAS for your Time Machine backup. If your Time Machine backup and/or your iPhoto library is on a NAS you will have problems - both need to be on Mac formatted volumes - the least troublsome is a volume formatted Mac OS extended (journaled)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Manually preparing a new disk for Time Machine
If you want to erase a disk before using it with Time Machine, follow these steps:
Open Disk Utility (located in the Utilities folder).
Connect the disk if it isn't already attached.
In the left side of the Disk Utility window, select the disk you want to use with Time Machine.
Optional: If you want to partition the disk, click the Partition tab and select a layout. Make sure "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" is selected in the Format menu for the partition that will be used for backups. Click Apply.
Click the Erase tab.
Optional: If you want to securely erase the disk, click Security Options to configure, then click OK.
Click Erase.
After erasing, open Time Machine preferences in System Preferences and configure as described in the section above.
Are the iPhoto libraries kept on an external drive formated Mac OS extended (journaled)? Or are they on the NAS? - If you are using the NAS for iPhoto and/or Time Machine that is the source of your problems
LN

Aperture 2.0 Library Failure - lost images

I have recently upgraded to 10.5.2, the new graphics library etc and Aperture 2.0 in order to use my Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III. The FIRST, new library that I created and loaded just 55 raw files in has lost my images!
Background: I was using the images fine after importing, had rated, organized, cropped, applied keywords etc and then after quitting to take a break, came back and reloaded Aperture...
Aperture's library is now not displaying my images - thumbnails appear blank, main images are blank, previews are not available in iphoto browser etc
Worse still the finder shows that the library has now become only 1.7mb small - eg way smaller than even one image, and i can't even find the original raw files
Things I have tried to recover...
- opening up the library package to find the original raw images
- exporting the project - it exports with the same problem
- backing up to a vault - same problem - no images in the vault
- the usual restarting the computer etc
This is incredibly disappointing to say the least... any ideas anyone? Apple?
Other things I know to do - just so anyone good enough to help has all the info:
- Time Machine is NOT backing up this library
- I have not written any files since this problem
- I have tried disk repairs - my disk appears fine...
Help?!

Ok, well for some reason, I can't edit my own message. Here's what I wanted to say....
Let's have a look at what Aperture thinks was imported. Right-click on [http://208.106.31.89/scripts/dump] the link and select 'Download linked file', then:
1) Open Terminal.app from Applications -> Utilities
2) Type 'chmod 755 ~/Downloads/dump.sh'
3) Type '~/Downloads/dump.sh "/path/to/your/aperture/library" '
4) Post the results of the script...
Don't type any of the single-quote (') characters above, but do type the double-quote ones ("). Note that the ~ character is next to the '1' key on the US keyboard, and it's a shifted-character.
Here's an example:
charlie% ~/Downloads/dump.sh "/Volumes/Users/charlie/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary"
file '/Volumes/Users/charlie/Pictures/VJ1V2271.CR2 (size:12067173) is referenced
file '/Volumes/Users/charlie/Pictures/VJ1V1626.CR2 (size:12573080) is referenced
file '/Volumes/Users/charlie/Pictures/VJ1V2191.CR2 (size:13004152) is referenced
file '/Volumes/Users/charlie/Pictures/VJ1V2185.CR2 (size:13168053) is referenced
file '/Volumes/Users/Users/simon/Pictures/12NOV05PRAIA012.CR2 (size:8562709) is referenced
file '/Volumes/Users/charlie/Pictures/VJ1V1576.CR2 (size:12285696) is referenced
file '/Volumes/Users/charlie/Pictures/VJ1V1804.CR2 (size:13539361) is referenced
file '/Volumes/Users/charlie/Pictures/13NOV05PRAIA040.CR2 (size:7279522) is referenced
file '/Volumes/Users/charlie/Pictures/VJ1V1694.CR2 (size:11732118) is referenced
file '/Volumes/Users/charlie/Pictures/_M4S2077.CR2 (size:15492152) is referenced
file '/Volumes/Users/charlie/Pictures/12NOV05PRAIA022.CR2 (size:9285637) is referenced
This tells me that all the files were imported referenced, the path that Aperture thinks they're located and their sizes. If all your files are referenced, the library-size isn't a problem. If they're managed, it is.
Let me know
-=C=-

I have lost an aperture library after I had to reload aperture

I had to to reload aperture and the upgrades. I have lost one of my libraries from the past year. Any ideas where to look. It is not in pictures. It was quite full.

I keep my Library in my Pictures folder and import my digital photographs from my camera into my Aperture Library. I then back up my Library (Aperture's Vault feature is useful for back-ups). Since my original digital photo files are "managed" (that means "inside the Aperture Library"), backing up the Library backs up my originals as well.

Aperture library upgrade lost pictures

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for