Aperture, Preview and Photostream

When I put an image on the photostream using Preview, it shows up in photostream in Preview.
When I put an image on the photostream using Aperture, it shows up in photostream it in Aperture.
But not vice versa, picture put on photostream with Preview are not visible in Aperture, and pictures put on photostream with Aperture are not visible in Preview. Why is this? After all they support the same kind of documents.
Koen

I put them back but still need your awesome help in getting it to work in my current user account.
Working in a different user account was meant as a test - a basic trouble shooting measure- not as a fix, see: Isolating an issue by using another user account
Your result tells, that Aperture, your hardware, and your system are probably o.k., but some settings, startup items, Aperture plug-ins, preference panes used in your user account may be problematic.
I'd start with trouble shooting the preferences and presets, as described in
Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics
Remove the file "com.apple.Aperture.plist" from your user library to the Desktop, and if that does not help, remove the presets.
Remember to log off and on, before removing the preferences.
The user preferences are hidden by default; reveal them from the Finder's "Go" menu:
Quit Aperture, if it is running:
Open the user library by using the Finder's "Go > Go to Folder" menu and hold down the options-key, until "Library" appears in the drop down menu. Select it In the widow that will open, scroll down to "Preferences"
From the "Preferences" folder remove "com.apple.Aperture.plist".
Then try to launch Aperture again.

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How can I retrieve Aperture Previews and Thumbnails directly after a corrupt hard drive corrupted Masters?

I have several old albums where JPG's were apparently corrupted on an old striped RAID.
Aperture still shows the previews (quite large, thankfully) for these old images.
But when Aperture tries to refresh the preview, the previews mimic the corrupt masters. To stop the bleeding, so to speak, I renamed my Master directory so Aperture doesn't update previews for these corrupt JPGs. However, I'd really like to save these previews, even if not at full resolution. Some folders
How can I retrieve Aperture Previews and Thumbnails for these items?
My process so far:
1) Show package contents on Aperture Library.
2) Navigate to Previews
     - some directories are here, some are missing
     - for those that are here, back up elsewhere and mission accomplished
     - for those that are missing, try to recover the thumbnails at least...
3) Navigate to Thumbnails
     - Lots more directories here. Likely the ones I'm looking for. (but they have strange hash names, so it's hard to say)
     - BUT, they only show large "AP.Thumbnails" files, no separate image file
The big answer I'm looking for... How to recover images missing from Preview directory and/or AP.Thumbnails files? (short of taking screenshots)

It would be nice to know your Aperture and OS version, there have been changes over the years.
The big answer I'm looking for... How to recover images missing from Preview directory and/or AP.Thumbnails files? (short of taking screenshots)
If you open the library in Aperture you can drag the preview images out of the browser and place them in a folder on your HD. If you cannot open the library then you will have to resort to going into the library package and rooting around. There was a big change with the library layout from Aperture 2 to 3 so knowing the version would really help here.
regards

Aperture 3 and photostream force quit

I have latest updates to aperture applied. I share a library with iphoto. If i try to enable photostream from preferences a spinning beachball starts and the application becomes unusable. I have to force quit. Restarting doesnt fix it. I have repaird and rebuilt the database. I also notice that while the application shows not responding their is also a photstream process running that is using up 100% of cpu? in the past i have tried delting preference files to no avail. Really need help here.

I put them back but still need your awesome help in getting it to work in my current user account.
Working in a different user account was meant as a test - a basic trouble shooting measure- not as a fix, see: Isolating an issue by using another user account
Your result tells, that Aperture, your hardware, and your system are probably o.k., but some settings, startup items, Aperture plug-ins, preference panes used in your user account may be problematic.
I'd start with trouble shooting the preferences and presets, as described in
Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics
Remove the file "com.apple.Aperture.plist" from your user library to the Desktop, and if that does not help, remove the presets.
Remember to log off and on, before removing the preferences.
The user preferences are hidden by default; reveal them from the Finder's "Go" menu:
Quit Aperture, if it is running:
Open the user library by using the Finder's "Go > Go to Folder" menu and hold down the options-key, until "Library" appears in the drop down menu. Select it In the widow that will open, scroll down to "Preferences"
From the "Preferences" folder remove "com.apple.Aperture.plist".
Then try to launch Aperture again.

Hello! I'm using Aperture with Efex plugins and notice, what when I saving result in plugin and go back to aperture, preview mode is going to grey color and not working until I reboot Aperture. Did you saw this problem?

Hello! I'm using Aperture with Efex plugins and notice, what when I saving result in plugin and go back to aperture, preview mode is going to grey color and not working until I reboot Aperture. What is intresting - in full screen mode everything works fine. Did you saw this problem?

It seems there's a workaround here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5566037?tstart=0

Aperture not working to get import previews and thus import images

I cannot seem to get images to appear int eh Import Window's preview pane, and thus cannot import them. I have some 1600 images from a recent shoot in a sub-folder on an external drive (in two locations actually) and Aperture is not hunting them down. I have tried importing files on the desktop as a test and the same problem, no previews and no chance to import. All my OS and Aperture updates are installed and I did a restart to no avail.
I know that this version of Aperture, along with the user manually select to not import into a New Project (grip for Apple dev if they are reading), that previews take long to load and freeze the Import process on my setup. So, it could be that it is taking forever to get 1600 previews, but viewing them in a finder window shows no problems getting previews.
Any pointers as to what the problem might be?

Chris G. wrote:
I cannot seem to get images to appear in the Import Window's preview pane, and thus cannot import them.
Any pointers as to what the problem might be?
I have occasionally had this problem and found either waiting a while or cancelling the Import and then retrying the Import (and being patient) works.
The workflow I use includes giving a custom master/version name to the appropriate images from the camera, such as "Judy in the Garden", importing those pics of Judy, and then supplying another master/version name, such as "Punch Drunk" for the appropriate images of Punch, importing those, and so on. So it can take many iterations to pull all the images in. Often the imports work as you would expect but then suddenly, nothing appears to happen and cancel and I redo it. My suspicion is Aperture is busy doing some housekeeping or other (or hung) but since a retry or two does the trick, I don't worry about it.

Aperture Reprocessing Images, Previews, and Thumbnails

Came across a bug the otherday while working with metadata. After attempting to use Metadata->Batch Change->Time Adjustment I noticed that after applying the adjustment the date/time on the images returned back to their original settings. I thought it strange but simply switched over to Metadata->Adjust Date and Time with the Also Change Original File option checked. This seemed to work.
But - then I began to notice also that the system was slowing. Did a little checking and discovered that Aperture was processing thumbnails and previews in the background. This should not have been happening for a couple reasons:
1) I always allow previews and thumbs to complete follwing an import before doing anything else
2) None of the images were being modified at the time (I was simply scrolling through libraries)
I have spent a couple days on this now and could not find the culprit. It goes something like this:
Open Aperture - everything is fine
Select a library and start looking through it and not soon after the activity window shows it building previews (and/or thumbnails) for the library I am in.
Just tonight that got me thinking. I opened Aperture
I opened a library
From the Inspector I went to the Info tab
I selected the Aperture drop down
Every time I view an image - the "Last Modified Date:" time stamp gets updated to the current date/time - even though I am not modifing the image in any way.
I am guessing this is what reset by DTG values (paragraph 1) and why thumbnails and previews are being regenerated.
I repaired permissions
I repaired the library
I rebuilt the database
I deleted all previews and rebuilt them
Permissions are R&W to the folder the library is in
Permissions are R&W to the library itself
What I cannot figure out is why Aperture is "Updating" every image I view.
I was wondering - if anyone else had come across a similar issue.
System Information
Mac OSX dual 2.26Ghz Quad Core
RAM 32GB
DIsk Size 2TB / 845GB Free
Dual monitor configuration
Aperture v3.4.3
Library Size: 10,189 images / 47GB
Library Type: Managed
Location: my home directory
Faces Enabled (but turning it off has no affect)
Post-Import Processing uses Camera Previews (but using Standard Previews has no affect)
New projects automatically generate previews is OFF
Share previews with iLife and iWork is NEVER
Photo Preview is 1920x1920 (lower size has no affect)
Photo Quality is 12 High (lower setting has no affect)
Photo Stream is OFF (never been ON)

Update
So tonight I tore into the library contents itself and found that all of my images were quarantined with com.apple.quarantine.
I switched to my laptop loaded aperture and viewed the demo library discovering that the masters there are not quarantined. So, it appears that sandbox security flagged all my images for god only know why.
I've spent the night manually removing quarantine from all my files. The I deleted all the thumbnails and am rerunning thumbnail and preview generation. I'm hoping this resolves the issue.
But now the next question - why were the masters flagged in the first place?

Aperture constantly generating previews and thumbnails and detecting faces

After starting Aperture or scrolling in the browser part of the Split View Aperture starts to generat previews and thumbnails and detecting faces, staling all my work in Aperture for a long time. After a while it is done, but start again if I start scrolling a lot in the browser or restarting Aperture. Aperture does not crash but it is it takes forever to work since it stalls everything. I can also se that after working for about ten minutes in Aperture almost all of my memory is gone. After a freshly restarted Mac I have about 13 GB of memory and after about ten minutes of work it is down to a few hundred MB. After closing Aperture I only get back about 8 GB of memory.
I have tried the following:
* Rebuilding thumbnails for all picture
* Force rebuilding previews for all pictures (Holding down the Option key)
* Reprocessed Originals for all pictures
* Repaired permissions
* Repaired database
* Rebuilt database
* Deleted aperture.plist file
All of the above completed without errors, but I still have the same problem. I also tried to un-check “Maintain Previews For Project” and “New projects automatically generate previews” but with no luck (This is off course not a solution but a workaround).
What else can I do?
I hav the following:
- iMac, late 2009
- 16 GB memory
- Aperture 3.5.1 (Had the same problem in Aperture 3.4.5 and possibly even before)

Is Aperture more responsive, if you defer the generation of previews by holding down the Shift-key when launching Aperture?
Feels a bit better but still regenerating previews.
Also, have you checked, if Aperture is more responsive, when you are working with a different Aperture library?
I tried creating a new library in two different ways using all pictures from my project "2010" which I know contains pictures that Aperture keeps regenerating previews from. First I exported the project as a new aperture library, but when I opened that new library it also kept regenerating pictures. Next I exported all originals from that project and imported them in a new aperture library and success. No more regeneration of previews. But I don't think it is a solution because I have over 23 000 pictures in my library and I will loose all adjustments, stacks and faces doing this to the rest of the pictures.
As to running out of memory - there have been reports, that "On Screen Proofing" might be causing this, disable it (from the View menu), if it is turned on, see this post: Re: Aperture 3.5 repeatedly crashes as 'memory full' despite 32GB RAM
"On Screen Proofing" was not on. But to be sure I tried to toggle the menu item but it did not get checked, until I understood that I had to select a Proofing Profile first. After that I selected and unselected "On Screen Proofing", but it did not help.
Do you use any Aperture plug-ins?
I had an old plug-in for exporting to Picasa which I don't think works anymore so I removed it, but it did not help.
Is your Aperture library referenced or managed?
I have a managed library.
And where is it stored?
The Aperture library is stored on my local hard drive in the shared directory. I hade plans to share it with other users on my computer but because of these problems I have not gone forward with those plans yet.

What size jpeg is aperture uploading to photostream?

I have just started to play around with Aperture and photostream. I put 6 RAW photos from Aperture on my iMac into photostream and then they showed up in photostream on my MacBook Air's Aperture photostream. I then opened the Aperture library structure (show package contents) and found the Master files were jpegs between 2-5MBs in size where my RAWs are ~20-25MB in size. So obviously only a jpeg version is being uploaded/synched through the photostream and not the RAW file (which is probably good as even 6 jpegs was fairly slow to upload). My question is whether one can control what size, quality etc of jpeg is being transfered through photostream between two Macs/Aperture libraries?

Okay, now I'm totally confused as to what aperture is doing. I uploaded a couple more pictures and this time they showed up on my other two macs as CR2 Raw files whereas last night the ones I uploaded came down as jpegs except for one that wasn't showing up last night and now shows up as a CR2 also. I also changed the preview settings to a higher setting, forced Aperture to create a new preview for one of the previously uploaded images and then tried to add it again to photostream but it didn't add anything new as it already had that file.
Does anyone have any idea what is causing aperture to add jpegs sometimes and Raws other times?

Where are the Aperture Previews?

I'm at a loss trying to work out why my Aperture preview pics are not coming up as available jpeg files in "Photos". In other words, the files used by other apps such as Mail, iTunes, etc. If I try to send an email and add a picture only a very outdated (and empty) iPhoto folder appears as an option. What happened to the Aperture previews that worked just fine until I migrated to iCloud (may or may not be related but the problem started on the same day)? I have the preview boxes checked in Aperture Preferences. I have done all of the Aperture First Aid options such as rebuild and restore. I have deleted and updated the previews using the instructions provided in the Aperture User Manual and still nothing. I even rebuilt a new library using my externally saved backup vault. Nothing works. It's like, for lack of better wording, the computer refuses to share Aperture previews with any other application. I can use Aperture itself just fine to import, edit, save files, I just cannot use the previews of them in Mail, Desktop, iTunes, etc. When I do a generate previews the activity window shows all 7,000 previews being generated but where are they and why are they not available to other apps?
Also, even though the new iCloud Photostream is turned on and working just fine on my ATV2, iPad 1 and iPhone I cannot get it to work on my iMac. I check the photostream box in System Pref/iCloud and Aperture but after a slight pause the box goes unchecked by itself. All software has been confirmed the latest available.
I appreciate any suggestions as I am at a loss on what to do next other then a full Aperture reinstall which I really do not want to do from DVD and numerous online updates unless my only option. Even with a vault backup I am still nervous of losing 7000 pics. Even then I still need to use the vault to recreate a new library so if the problem is somehow hidden within the vault a reinstall likely would not help either (I believe). If that is the case (a corrupted vault), what do I do then?
Many Thanks
Mark

All software has been confirmed the latest available.
Mac OS X (10.6.3)
Is your signature correct, then? I'd recommend to upgrade to 10.6.8.
I check the photostream box in System Pref/iCloud and Aperture but after a slight pause the box goes unchecked by itself.
You seem to be using iPhoto and Aperture alternately. You can share your Photo Stream only with one of these Applications. Maybe this is causing the stream to automatically beeing switched off. This has been reported by others. Search for other threads with "photo stream turning off" in the iCloud Forum.
I have done all of the Aperture First Aid options such as rebuild and restore. I have deleted and updated the previews using the instructions provided in the Aperture User Manual and still nothing. I even rebuilt a new library using my externally saved backup vault.
Have you tried to remove your Aperture Preference file? This file tells the Media Browser where the Aperture Library is located. If you have not done so already:
Quit Aperture
Open your user Library (inside your Home Folder) in the Finder and navigate to the "Preferences" folder.
Move your preferences file Library->Preferences-> com.apple.Aperture.plist to the desktop
Restart Aperture and direct it to your Aperture Library. Quit Aperture again.
Try to use the Media Browser from the System Preferences by setting your Desktop Picture.

Aperture 2 and 3 and Snow Leopard

My system with Aperture 2 was perfect.
Then I believe that Snow Leopard killed Aperture 2.
When I first installed Snow Leopard my machine felt like new again but slowly and slowly over the last few months the whole system seems to feel less and less snappy.
I don't use many video-intensive applications - my main one is Aperture 2, so this is where I find my main cause for concern.
Painfully slow adjustments with lagging, beach-balling, CPU-hogging, and RAM theft.
The main culprits seem to be Highlights/Shadows, Straighten, Crop, and Retouching… although my open mind says that could simply be because they form the latter part of my tweaking process.
There seems to be a thumbnail generation issue. Every adjustment that is made generates a new thumbnail - as you work through your tweaks that process seems to get backed up and slow everything down.
There seems to also be a video issue. Tweaking horizontal photos in full screen causes twice as much lag as a vertical image. Why? Take a look - it's obvious - in full screen edit a vertical image is about half the size of a horizontal one.
There seems to be a memory issue. Aperture seems to use a large amount of processor and RAM and sometimes doesn't let go of it or it gets caught in some kind of a loop. I've no idea what I'm talking about here. All I know is when I look at Activity Monitor the numbers are going through the roof and I can barely concentrate on them because of the noise from my fans.
There have been various and quite diverse suggestions on this and other forums as to what the underlying problem is and I have done my best to look into those and see what can help.
I have an early-2008 MBP 4,1 - 2.6 Intel Core 2 Duo - 4GB (factory-fitted) RAM - GeForce 8600M (512MB) GT.
I have done everything possible: all software totally up-to-date, re-installed combo updates, rebuilt Aperture libraries, run consistency checks, fresh Aperture install, fresh Snow Leopard install, repaired permissions, booted in 32bit, booted in 64bit, run hardware tests, deleted plists, cleared caches, downloaded and run applications like Onyx and Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner (amongst others) to ensure everything is in ship-shape along with various test applications to gauge if components like my hard drive are dying.
I keep my system clean and tidy. I have now stripped out bloat. I even took out iPhoto in case its 'iLife' browser link to Aperture was an issue. I have 85GB free on a 200GB. All components are original as factory-fitted by Apple.
Everything that any seemingly intelligent person on any decent forum has suggested has been done - in particular I thank the many users here on the Apple forum for all their information sharing… I try to read them all.
From what I see on the forums, I am not alone.
Nothing has fixed this problem.
I (and no doubt many others) have fed this information back to Apple.
Aperture 2 and/or Snow Leopard has a problem that has not been fixed.
Aperture 3 got released and I trialled it and swiftly uninstalled it because the exact same problems are there - even with one single photo in it.
My concern is that Apple will not fix the cause of the problem which seems to lie outside of Aperture.
If Apple concentrate on making Aperture 3 work better inside a possibly shaky Snow Leopard then I will be very disappointed.
I'm not forking out for a new version of software just because Apple broke my current software. Don't get me wrong - I do actually WANT to buy Aperture 3 because it has functional improvements and advancements that I would love to be using providing it works properly - and for me (and it appears for 'quite a few' others as well) it just simply doesn't… and neither does Aperture 2 any more.
I am no technical expert (as you've probably noted already) but a MAJOR bug seems to lie in the relationship between Snow Leopard, graphics cards, and the way it handles memory - and so in turn graphically-intensive applications like Aperture are high-lighting these problems more than others.
I am sure there are people without these problems. Perhaps these problems relate to specific hardware configurations. My configuration is Apple standard. I really shouldn't have these problems.
Until Apple fix this major bug I cannot remotely consider Aperture 3.
Until Apple fix this major bug I could never buy Apple again.
Up until Snow Leopard you had a VERY happy camper. I had a perfect machine and I was shouting Mac from the rooftops to anyone that would listen.
And then it seems Snow Leopard broke my machine.
What a shame.
I really want to use Apple, I actually really like Snow Leopard, I really want to use Aperture, I really want to carry on telling people how wonderful the Apple Mac experience is (or was...) but Apple are currently making it very difficult for me to continue doing so.
Please fix Snow Leopard.
This will hopefully fix Aperture 2 and Aperture 3.
Unless anyone else has a fix?
Sincere apologies to all for banging on for so long !!

Thanks for your input setwart.
When I make adjustments I do want Aperture to provide me with a new version so that I can see the original image and also that I have a version which I have already adjusted. I've previously tried changing that preference before with no improvement in performance unfortunately, but it's not really what I was referring to.
Versions, thumbnails and previews were very confusing terms to me for a while… actually, in some ways, they still are but my understanding is 'a little' better now.
That said, I probably used the wrong term.
What I meant was that every time you make an adjustment Aperture seems to produce a 'record' or 'snap-shot' of your image including that latest adjustment. In so doing you have an entire history of each adjustment you have made. In my head I picture this like a movie film-strip with each frame differing slightly. You increase your saturation by a single point? Another snap-shot. Fancy another single point on your saturation? Another snap-shot… and so on.
It is typical that I will make a bare minimum of 20 adjustments on each image, and that's before even thinking about straightening, cropping, and retouching… and then maybe I'll go back and tweak everything again !!
Somehow, my system is having difficulty in keeping up to speed with all of those snap-shots of individual adjustments. Certain adjustments will drastically slow things down more than others, and then I get to play with the beach-balls.
But - it used to handle these things just fine and that's what I'm trying to get back to.
Thanks again for getting involved.

Continual updating of previews and thumbnails. Why and how to stop it?

I am switching over to Aperture after having manually managed my files in order to see if there is any benefit for me as my photo collection is getting a bit out of control.
I have imported as projects all my folders of images. Now Aperture runs very slowly and is continually updating previews and thumbnails. Is there anything I can do to stop this or is this just part of the process of the system going through my files and generating the previews and thumbnails? If so how long can this take? Its been almost a day so far!
I did read a support document TS1360 which mentioned that items need to be migrated to RAW 2 format from version RAW 1. This would be fine but I have no idea how to find the images if this is the case. If its all my images then that could make for a real mass migration!
Any thoughts?

Raw v1 and raw v 2 relate to changes in the raw processing engine between aperture v 1x and 2x there is no need for you to worry about this if your images never resided in an Aperture v1 application.
Regarding previews & thumbnails, it is a good idea to let aperture build the thumbnails and previews. This will take some time depending on the size of the image files and the quantity of images you imported into Aperture.
If you have no plans to use the functionality previews gives you can switch off that function in the preferences and in the Library (cog wheel) settings. But previews may be necessary depending on how you have set you your Library and if the files are referenced or actually reside with the Library file structure. Referenced files without previews need to be physically available to aperture for aperture to display them. Referenced files on an external HD with previews will display in the library even if the drive is off line, however the image displayed is only the preview in this case.
The PPC G5 you have will labour importing large qty's of images for the first time, however given the chance to build everything, it should function reasonably thereafter. But It's (G5) really the absolute minimum and less than ideal platform at this stage.
Hope this helps.

Import Previews and Collections Only

GOAL: to export the Previews and Collections info ONLY on an old Lightroom catalog/computer and apply that info to same photos on a new Lightroom catalog/computer.
I'm moving my Lightroom Catalog from one computer that utilized multiple external drives to a new computer where everything will be on a single internal drive.
I copied over all of the photos to the new computer and did some re-organizing to group everything better.
I left the file structure within each Lightroom folder intact (eg., if I had sub-dvided photos into ten folders on the old Lightroom computer, those ten folders are the same, but I have put all ten into a new folder to enclose them all).
Ideally, I'd like to just bring in the previews and collection info and apply it to the photos on the new Lightroom computer. Since there are over 20,000 photos, I'd like to avoid having to export as a catalog with all of those originals. Is there a way to export ONLY the previews and collections info and then import that to the new Lightroom computer?
Thanks!

Chris G. wrote:
I cannot seem to get images to appear in the Import Window's preview pane, and thus cannot import them.
Any pointers as to what the problem might be?
I have occasionally had this problem and found either waiting a while or cancelling the Import and then retrying the Import (and being patient) works.
The workflow I use includes giving a custom master/version name to the appropriate images from the camera, such as "Judy in the Garden", importing those pics of Judy, and then supplying another master/version name, such as "Punch Drunk" for the appropriate images of Punch, importing those, and so on. So it can take many iterations to pull all the images in. Often the imports work as you would expect but then suddenly, nothing appears to happen and cancel and I redo it. My suspicion is Aperture is busy doing some housekeeping or other (or hung) but since a retry or two does the trick, I don't worry about it.

Aperture previews/Can't see Aperture library in other apps.

This isn't really a new problem for me, but I decided to ask now to see if it can be fixed somehow. I use Aperture 3.4.5, OSX 10.8.4. The problem is that Aperture doesn't show up under the Media tab when in other apps. For instance, in Mail if I try to attach a picture. It shows iPhoto and Photobooth. But I get an error when I click on Aperture that tells me I need to turn on sharing to iLife in the preferences of Aperture. But this is turned on. Still no access to the Aperture library. Same thing in iTunes. Now, since my Aperture and iPhoto libraries are linked I can just choose the photos I want to attach from the iPhoto library. But I want to choose the Aperture library!!
But it won't let me. I cannot add projects/folders to my iPhone or iPad in iTunes either. I get the same turn on the sharing message. And I have this turned on.
I've seen a few other people with this problem in searches I have done but I have not seen any solutions...
Help?!?

So your Aperture library is in fact a previous iPhoto library.
Correct. When I purchased Aperture, I imported from my iPhoto library. And I guess they are shared.
I am still not quite sure about the state of your iPhoto/Aperture library. Depending on when you bought Aperture, you may have imported the iPhoto Library into a new Aperture Library; then you now have an Aperture library, or you may have simply opened the iPhot Library in Aperture, keeping it an iPhoto Library. The Finder can show you what it is.
Select your library in the Finder and use the Finder command "Get Info ⌘I". The Info panel will show you the type of the library.
Disclose the "General" brick in the panel. The "Kind" will either show "iPhoto Library" or "Aperture Library".
Then disclose the "Name & Extension" brick and look, if your library has a filename extension - aplibrary or photolibrary. Uncheck "Hide Extension" to see it.
If your library still is "Kind iPhoto Library", then you never imported your Library, you only used it in Aperture.
Or if you want to use iPhoto and Aperture with separate photo libraries, import your current library into a new Aperture library. Open your now empty Aperture Library in Aperture by double-clicking it. Then use the command "File > Import > Library" in Aperture and select your iPhoto library. This will import all events, albums, etc. into your empty Aperture Library and craete a copy of the iPhoto library, but now it will have the kind "Aperture Library" and the Media Browser should show it in the Aperture section and not the iPhoto section. Only make sure, that you unhide all photos in iPhoto, before you do that. Aperture cannot unhide photos that have been hidden in iPhoto.
My question here is if I go into my new Aperture Library, and import from iPhoto again (and I guess make them not shared?) Will it then *copy* my iPhoto library, which is 240GB. Then I would have 2 240GB folders??
I appreciate the help so far. Right now I'm doing the generate preview thing again, which is taking awhile. But I'm guessing that since my iPhoto and Aperture libraries are linked and shared now this won't matter much. I will still only see iPhoto listed in the Media Browser..
Let's talk about that part of your question when we know for sure, if you already imported your iPhoto library or simply opened it in Aperture. If your library is an Aperture library with an imported iPhoto library inside there may be additional complications.

Aperture Library and iLife Media Browser - Showing Deleted MobileMe Gallery

I'm currently using Aperture 3.1 and iLife '09 and just noticed that when I try to access the Aperture Library from say iPhoto or Keynote that the list of folders contains two MobileMe folders with my name, one of which contains dupicates of two of my gallery's. Now I deleted all of my MobileMe gallery's to see if I could fix this, but it still shows a MobileMe folder and two gallery's that no longer exist. I even logged out of MobileMe in Aperture, but still in the iLife Media browser the non-existent gallery's are still shown. I even tried deleting all previews and re-generating in Aperture, to see if the sharing information would be updated, but still these phantom gallery's persist. I guess this doesn't cause me any problems, but I would just like to fix it and wondered if anyone else had seen this and knew of a solution? Thanks.

Hi,
I have a similar problem and have posted about it on this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2668209
I'm watching this thread too to see if anyone responds.
Thanks,
Joe

Aperture 3 and Apple TV Photo Syncing

I have upgraded to Aperture 3.
Now when I try to sync photos to ATV through iTunes (9.0.3) I get error message:
"Your Aperture Library could not be found. Open the preferences window in Aperture and enable the preference to share previews with other applications."
I have opened Aperture preferences and have gone to previews and have allowed to share with iLife applications.
Still no results. Any suggestions? Anybody else having this problem?
Thanks

Finally figured it out.
Went to Aperture.
Changed away from current library and then back again.
That seemed to let iTunes pick up the trail leading to the library.

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