Aperture migration wont import

I followed the insrtuctions on the Adobe website to import my aperture library and everything seems to function fine except the import button continues to be grayed out and nonfunctional

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Aperture won't import an Aperture library

I have Aperture updated and installed on my macbook pro and my iMac. On vacation, I imported the photos to my MBP for review and editing. I have done this many times in the past. I can export the Projects or the Folder of my vacation pics to an Aperture library and can put it on the desktop of my iMac. I cannot get Aperture to import this vacation library to add it to the main library on my iMac.
On my iMac, I selected "import library" (as I have done in the past) and it starts a process, calculating disk space and merging the libraries. With about 3/4 of the progress bar filled, it fails and no images are brought over.
I can "Switch libraries" on my iMac and can view all of the photos in the vacation library. The photos are there and the edits are present. I just can't bring them over to the iMac library successfully.
Both systems are the most current version of OSX and there are no new updates available for Aperture on either my MBP or my iMac.
Anyone know how to get Aperture to import a library in the new version? It looks like the new update of Aperture has a bug in it.

This has previously worked. I used to do this after every vacation... Shoot the photos, offload to my laptop, edit and delete, export the library, import the library to my iMac, done!
And that is how it is supposed to work.
Have you done any trouble shooting? Repaired and rebuild the libraries in question?
Aperture 3 User Manual: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library
If not, I'd start with the repair option, if necessary also rebuild the libraries.
Before rebuilding check, if you have a current backup.
What versions of MBP and iMac do you have? There has been at least one other thread with the similar problem on a MBP, and I wonder, if the problem only occurs on specific mac models.
Aperture wont import other aperture library files - no error message?
Regards
Léonie

Aperture does not import iPhoto movie Title and Description?

I recently imported a 16,000 image iPhoto Library to Aperture including 270 movies.
There were some problems with the import. An older camera's movies cannot be shown in Aperture and lack thumbnails -- though they can play (for now) externally in QuickTime player. Many other movies lacked thumbnails, but Aperture added them with the Generate Thumbnail command.
These are annoying glitches, but I had a more serious problem with Aperture's iPhoto import of Movies. None of the Titles or Descriptions were imported into Aperture.
Has anyone else seen this?

Thanks! I've thought about this a bit more, and what the bug is.
I think it's an oddly simple bug -- maybe a hurried hack as Aperture 3.x was going to market and the responsible engineers discovered they were missing a key feature. They may have "stolen" the "set Version Name to Master Filename" function and, for iPhoto import, quietly made it "set Version Name to iPhoto Title" -- without revising their documentation or the UI.
Here's what I wrote up on my blog. I'll try to file a bug report against Aperture on this. I'll mark this post as answering my question
http://tech.kateva.org/2012/03/iphoto-8-to-aperture-3-migration-notes.html
Aperture handling of iPhoto Title data depends, mysteriously, on the iPhoto Version Name import setting that Apple documents as: "... choose Master Filename from the Version Name pop-up menu to have your files stored using the current master filenames from your camera or card". (Since we're importing from iPhoto, and not a camera or card, this documentation is misleading.)
In reality, during iPhoto import, setting Version Name = Master Filename does nothing of the sort. Instead, this is what happens:
The filename is equal to the filename used in iPhoto
Aperture.Version name is set equal to the iPhoto Title.
I don't know what Aperture would do if we set Version Name = a Custom name where one of the custom name components was "Master Filename". Would it still treat iPhoto.Title as "Master Filename"?
I think there are two bugs here. I think Aperture "Version Name=Master Filename" was supposed to set Aperture.Version to the file name, and that there was supposed to be ANOTHER drop down (and a custom name tag) that of the form "Version Name=iPhoto Title"

I just installed iTunes on my computer, where I already have all my music. I went to Edit Preferences Advanced, and changed the iTunes Media Folder Location to where I have all my music, in the "Local Disk." But iTunes wont import all my music. Help?

I just installed iTunes on my computer, where I already have all my music. I went to Edit > Preferences > Advanced, and changed the iTunes Media Folder Location to where I have all my music, in the "Local Disk." But iTunes wont import all my music. Help?

Have you looked in the Music App on your iPhone? On the iPhone music is played by the Music App not iTunes.

My lap top wont import pictures from auto play. it keeps saying there is a file error and a device connected to the computer isnt working properly. i have tried going into the internal storage to copy and paste the pictures but this wont work either.

my pictures from my i phone 4s wont import from auto play. a message keeps coming up saying there is an error and a device is not working properly. also i have tried going into the internal storage to copy and paste them but that wont work either. the page either stops responding or the picture simply dont copy. does any1 have any idea why this is happening. it has never happened before and only seems to be happening since i started using i cloud storage instead of synching my phone with the lap top.

I have decided to dedicate this thread to the wonderful errors of Lion OSX. Each time I find a huge problem with Lion I will make note of it here.
Today I discovered a new treasure of doggie poop in Lion. No Save As......
I repeat. No Save As. In text editor I couldn't save the file with a new extension. I finally accomplished this oh so majorly difficult task (because we all know how difficult it should be to save a file with a new extension) by pressing duplicate and then saving a copy of the file with a new extension. Yet then I had to delete the first copy and send it to trash. And of course then I have to secure empty trash because if I have to do this the rest of my mac's life I will be taking up a quarter of percentage of space with duplicate files. So this is the real reason they got rid of Save As: so that it would garble up some extra GB on the ole hard disk.
So about 20 minutes of my time were wasted while doing my homework and studying for an exam because I had to look up "how to save a file with a new extension in mac Lion" and then wasted time sitting here and ranting on this forum until someone over at Apple wakes up from their OSX-coma.
are you freaking kidding me Apple? I mean REALLY?!!!! who the heck designed this?!!! I want to know. I want his or her name and I want to sit down with them and have a long chat. and then I'd probably splash cold water on their face to wake them up.
I am starting to believe that Apple is Satan.

ITunes wont import!

my itunes 8.1.1 is having major problems, it wont import any music files, Quicktime 7.6 opens them fine but not itunes, no error message or anything, it shows the normal green "+" sign when i drag the song over the itunes window but when i let go it does nothing, ive tried mp3s aiffs and wav files, it wont import music i purchase from the itunes store either, it gives an error stating:
"There was a problem downloading "song name", an unknown error occurred (-50)"
i tried using pacifist to go back to v 8.0.2 but it says it cant use the music library files because they were created by a newer version of itunes, i re-installed 8.1.1 install was successful, but still wont import anything.
i tried repairing permissions on my HD but still no luck, what do i do?
-Jon D

I had this problem with iTunes 8.2. It refused to import any .MP3 or .AIFF files either by dropping the file on to the iTunes icon or by using "Add to Library". No error messages, just did not import the file. OTher media players played the files just fine.
I've just solved my import problem, but I don't know if my solution is a general one.
When I looked at Preferences / Advanced, the iTunes Music folder location was showing as blank, (though despite this iTunes was using my library OK, it was just import that was not working). Simply trying to change the location using iTunes Preferences / Advanced had no effect on the import problem.
I use an external drive for my iTunes library, with the music folder location set using an alias on the internal hard drive pointing at the library on the external drive. The alias was pointing at the correct place, but for some reason the alias was not appearing in the iTunes Preferences / Advanced / iTunes Music folder location window.
My solution was as follows:
- I re-selected the original that the alias was pointing at using "Select New Original" in the File / Get Info window.
- I then "reset" the location of iTunes music folder in iTunes to the same old alias file I'd been using all along.
This seems to have solved the problem. Files import fine now.
Hope this helps somebody, it was a real pain not being able to import anything.
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Aperture fails to import albums from iPhoto

I have been using the combination iPhoto/Photoshop for many years. For some time I have considered either Aperture of Lightroom. With the chopped price and supposedly improved interface with the new version, I decided to buy it today. So far it looks like a big mistake! One major reason for choosing Aperture rather than Lightroom was Apertures's advertised smooth import of the iPhoto library, and to import albums in iPhoto. I have spent a lot of time over several years to find a good system of album organization in iPhoto. It was consequently a big disappointment to discover that Aperture failed to import most of my some 30 albums and my slideshows from iPhoto. I have searched both the manual and help to find out how I can get my album organization of some 20 000 pictures into Aperture, but so far without success. Can anyone give me a clue. Both regular albums as well as smart albums are missing. I cannot figure out how I so totally have misunderstood what Aperture is capable of.

There is always local issues involved. No two Macs are alike. Different files, temporary files, plug-ins etc. can and do cause problems. When software updates and upgrades are created, the developer, in this case Apple, need to test the software in different environments. Developers are pushed by steadily shorter deadlines, at the same time applications are also steadily becoming more complex. When I am critical to Apple, it is because there are only Apple applications involved in my case, on a brand new (2 weeks old newest version of MacBook Pro), and the very same issue has happened to too many others. Just take a look at Apple discussions. I have used iPhoto since it was launched the first time, and I have only experienced problems a couple of times before. I am not saying that the problem is iPhoto or Aperture alone, it is the two of them which do not handle the integration. Keep in mind also that most Aperture users are different than the average Mac user in that they work a lot with photo files. This is the environment that Apple has to take into account when launching upgrades and updates.

Aperture crash during imports

Having some import problems with Aperture and would be grateful for advice.
Aperture works fine except at import from SD cards. The photos import just fine and then I get a message asking if I want to delete the imported images from the SD card and eject the card. This is where the crash happens. Aperture quits, the images are not deleted from the card and the card is not ejected. This happens with all my SD cards. I have reformated the cards but this hasn't helped.
Any advice or information gratefully received.

There are several reports recently on Aperture crashing after importing images, when the option "delete images" is chosen.
Send a bug report to Apple, when the crash occurs, and - for the time being - refrain from deleting the images from the card this way, until this bug has been fixed. It is much safer anyway, to delete the images in the camera and not to let applications delete from the card and to wait with deleting from the card, until you have checked that the images imported correctly.
Regards
Léonie

Aperture isn't importing videos from iPhone, only photos. I've tried plugged in and over wifi. Help?

Aperture isn't importing videos from iPhone, only photos. I've tried plugged in and over wifi. Help?

How did you transfer the photos from your other iPhone? If you did it by importing them from the old phone to a computer and then used iTunes to sync them back to the new phone, then you would delete them by syncing again using iTunes but this time change the selection of which photos are to be synced. Each time you sync using iTunes, it sets the non-Camera Roll photos on the phone to match the current settings/selection in iTunes.

IPhoto suddenly wont import photos from my iPhone

iPhoto suddenly wont import photos from my iPhone.
Keeps sending me error messages... wrong format.
anyone know about this?

There are 9 different versions of iPhoto and they run on seven different versions of the Operating System. The tricks and tips for dealing with issues vary from version to version and OS to OS. So before anyone can help, they need information to work with. Basic stuff:
- What version of iPhoto.
- What version of the Operating System.
- Details. What were you doing when the problem arose?
- Did it ever work properly?
- Are there error messages?
- What steps have you tried already to solve the issue.
Anything else you can think of that might allow someone else to understand your issue.
With this kind of information somebody can develop a starting point for troubleshooting the issue.
Posts that consist of "iPhoto doesn't work. Help" or "iPhoto won't print" or "Suddenly I have no photos!!!!!!!!!!" mean that any helper is simply guessing. More information means you get better assistance. (And no, more exclamation marks do not get help faster or make your issue seem urgent. They just make it seem like you have a stuck key )

Imovie media browser only has one option, "Mobile". other videos had option for medium and small. mobile option wont import into iDVD. other videos gave me the Medium option, why not this one?

help! imovie media browser only has one option, "Mobile". other videos had option for medium and small. mobile option wont import into iDVD. other videos gave me the Medium option, why not this one? need answers ASAP!

That is your answer then.
Large is 960x540
Medium is 640x480 (or 720x480)
Mobile is probably 480x272.
It is offering you the sizes that make sense given the size of your source material.
As a trick, you might try this. In your project, put a short 640x480 clip in the project as the first clip of the project. Then keep the rest of the project as is. See if it will let you share now in Medium. It will not look as good, because there are not enough pixels to cover the Medium size, but it might work.

Why is my External Hard Drive not showing in Aperture 3.6 Import?

Why is my External Hard Drive not showing in Aperture 3.6 Import?
Only my computer hard drive is and I want to import from an external drive. I have always been able to until I updated to Aperture 3.6 and Yosemite.

Only my computer hard drive is and I want to import from an external drive. I have always been able to until I updated to Aperture 3.6 and Yosemite.
I had the same problem. On the folders on the drive with the Aperture library did show in the Import panel. After I clicked the computer icon in the upper left corner of the Import panel, suddenly all drives appeared.
You can also try to drag the folder you want to import into the Import panel, to point the file chooser to the drive.

Tv shows wont import

I just got my macbook today and when i went to put my old tv shows i perchesd on the music store it wont import. eny one know whats going on?

Update your QuickTime to 7.1.3. I tried to use 7.1.2 and got dialog box that to play the TV Shows previously purchased that I needed to update.
MJ

Imovie 9.0.8 on mountain lion wont import archives created by imovie 9.0.4 running on os 10.6.8

I have created a great many archives using imovie 9.0.4. I have them on a back up disk and can import them using imovie 9.0.4 running on OS 10.6.8.
I got a new Mac running mountain lion with imovie 9.0.8 and it wont import thos archives. When I click import from archive and click one of the archive folders it says:
Folder is Not a Camera Archive
Please select a folder that is a camera archive, then click Import.
Please help!

ablyes wrote:
…i already tried a frensh install of mountain lion
I recommended a re-install of the app, not of the OS
… what do you mean by adding some MacOS Voodoo ?
do, what I wrote: re-launch your Mac while holding down the shift-key
this triggers the Safe-Mode, which is recommended by Apple as a maintanance-routine (best done before any updatres) ....
I called it 'voodoo' as some joke ...

Having installed aperture 3 and imported iphoto library (15000 photos) Apertue 3 does not render most of my photos corectly most a blurred pixellated and distorted. Reverting to photo produces perfect results. Any suggestions

Having installed aperture 3 and imported iphoto library (15000 photos) Apertue 3 does not render most of my photos corectly most a blurred pixellated and distorted. Reverting to photo produces perfect results. Any suggestions

Galdaplh,
What do you mean by "reverting to photo"? "Revert" is not a function in Aperture so you must be talking about something else.
If you just performed the import of that many photos, Aperture will take some time to generate thumbnails. You can see if it is doing this sort of thing by {Command}-{Shift}-0 to show the Activity window.
Once Aperture generates all its thumbnails, you will have nearly instantaneous access to much, much better thumbnails than Aperture uses immediately after importing photos.
nathan

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