Aperture Projects - Hidden Photos - Corrupt?

I have about 10 folders, perhaps 500 subfolders, and about 1300 projects in a 40 GB Aperture 3 Library. One folder, and many, but not all, of the perhaps 300 subfolders 400 projects inside, will not show photos. The photo count in the projects are accurate, I can make a smart album which shows the photos, and I can manually find the photos inside the hidden folders within the Aperture Library, but the photos will not appear if I highlight the project or the parent folder.
I have rebuilt the database, repaired permissions and gone to the Apple Genius Bar, only to get cheerful instructions to manually rebuild everything. I'm hoping for a more clever solution, like trashing a plist, using my backup copies of the library, or something along those lines. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
I'm also open to suggestions that I move to Lightroom, or another software, for to have this happen 6 months into using this software concerns me.

Hooray!!!!!!!!
You just saved me the prospect of several days worth of work. Hooray! Thank you so much.
For some reason, the folders and projects with the hidden photos have some sort of filter. But when I go to the search bar and click on the magnifying glass, and select, show all (^6), the images return. I'm guessing I might need to manually do that for each folder, but at most that would take an hour, as opposed to the several days my other options would have taken.
Do you have any idea how I might have accidentally created a filter for selected photos? The thing in common about those images is that most are pictures I collected from various websites on the internet. But I'm not sure that has anything to do with it, as other parent folders and subfolders with photos from the internet were just fine.

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If, like me, you used Events as your main organizational tool - you will really be disappointed in Photos.   My Albums transferred, but I had over 100,000 pictures, taken over 13 years and organized mostly by the "Event/Title" line above each group of pictures.   Those titles did not transfer to Photos.
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Why are my photos not as sharp when I import them into Facebook from the Aperture Projects file, compared to when I 'share' them with Facebook within the Aperture programme? There is a noticeable difference and has been spoiling my photos for some time.

Hi all, I take wildlife photos (mostly birds) as a hobby, and have become frustrated with the quality of my photos recently when shared online, particularly Facebook.
I started blaming my camera ( a Canon 7D) as I changed it a few months ago from a Canon 550D, and I soon noticed that the images were not as good. Then I realised it was when I started using Aperture.
I started by using the 'share' option within Aperture but I soon realised that then I have no control over the creation of an album, and the photos start appearing on facebook before I have finished uploading them and given them captions. Plus if I subsequently move them or export them to my back up drive then they disappear from Facebook!
So I started creating albums within Facebook and then importing the photos from the aperture projects file on my computer. Because they are imported I can then delete or move the aperture file and the photos stay on facebook. Otherwise my macbook was becoming completely full.
However to test my theory I have today uploaded the same photo edited in Aperture stored in the same projects folder using the two different methods described above, and there is a very distinct difference between the quality of the two images. The shared ones are very much sharper than the imported ones.
I am a computer novice and don't know how to check what the quality settings are, or how to adjust anything to improve the way the photos go into facebook. I do have a manual but I just cant understand it :-(
I have tried a free sample of Lightroom 5 and my photos look amazing, there is such a difference, but I don't want to give up with Aperture unless the problem really can't be solved.
Sorry for such a long first post, I would be very very grateful for any help you can give me!
Regards
Susan

Generally I would not use Facebook for sharing any photos, it compresses the photos substantially, and when you have shadows and dark colours you get visible "bands" where there should be subtle gradients, ie at sunsets and sunrises.
It sounds like you are using two methods to upload to Facebook:
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2. Exporting pics and uploading to Facebook from the browser.
I am not sure how method 1 gets compressed, but I know that uploading hi-res jpegs to Facebook using method 2 results in poor quality images.
I wouldn't even bother comparing option 1 or 2, and they will both be poor images once you view them on Facebook, as opposed to viewing uploaded images on proper image sharing / hosting sites.
Your problem is not with Aperture, it is using Facebook for showing your work.
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If you insist to use Facebook as your way to share your work, then your workflow should be this:
1. Right click images you want to share.
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3. Export as 100% size and ensure the export settings are set at 100% quality.
4. Upload this pic into Facebook.
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A rebuild removed projects from photos and put empty projects in the trash.

I'm running Aperature 3.2.4 in OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) on a MacBook Pro 1,1
I have a large library of 37,000 images on an external hard drive. I have experienced a number of problems which culminated in a corrupted drive and library which I have taken several steps to repair. In an attempt to be thorough, I may be including more info than necessary, but here is my tale.
1) There have been inconsistencies for some time when deleting photos in the camera (compact flash card uploaded through camera) when importing photos. Occurring more frequently, the photos did not get deleted when I made that selection, most normally with the unmount camera box check. This is a big deal, I adapted by checking the camera when it was unmounted.
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I have Iphoto library in Apeture. Can I move the projects from iPhoto to aperture project by dragging (within the apeture program)? Is this making a duplicate of all the photos? It seems to work?? It then leaves my Iphoto library in apeture empty. I would like to do this just to reorganize the photos between the two. I feel that I may have doubles and would like all pictures of one year in same project in Aperture instead of going between both.

Tell us more, please. I am not quite sure, what you want to do and how you are using Aperture and iPhoto?
Which versions of Aperture and iPhoto are you using?
Do you have separate photo libraries for Aperture and iPhoto, or are you opening your iPhoto libraries in Aperture?
I have Iphoto library in Apeture.
Did you import an iPhoto library into Aperture? And now you are seeing a section "iPhoto Library" in the Aperture projects list in the Inspector?
Events and albums you imported from iPhoto (Import > Library > Some iPhoto Library) will be imported as Aperture projects and albums, and they will behave exactly as other Aperture projects and albums.
Can I move the projects from iPhoto to aperture project by dragging (within the aperture program)? Is this making a duplicate of all the photos? It seems to work?? It then leaves my Iphoto library in apeture empty.
You can drag images from any project in Aperture to other projects and that will move (not duplicate) the images and all its versions to that project. And when you drag all images from the project to another project, the remaining project will be empty and can be deleted. (Caution: Photos that you have hidden in iPhoto will not be visible in Aperture. If you are not sure, if you have hidden photos, open the library again in iPhoto and unhide all photos).
I feel that I may have doubles and would like all pictures of one year in same project in Aperture instead of going between both.
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Aperture 3 loses photos?

I've just noticed that thousands of photos have disappeared from my Aperture 3 library. Projects now have 0 photos in them. Also when I download new photos into Aperture they simply don't stay or if they do they are useless because I can't export them, I get, "No Reference Files" ' The selection doesn't have any referenced files'. Is this problem being encountered by anyone else? Have I wasted my money? Will I have to take down Aperture & find a reliable programme?
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Hi Pete
I'm really sorry to hear that the library first aid failed for you, even after working through all three steps.
I haven't had the question of why this has happened under Aperture 3 answered.
For a fair bit of the last 20 years or so, I've done IT support, ranging from sitting beside users at their machines on their desk to remotely diagnosing problems over the phone or by email. Without access to your system, and without being able to watch over your shoulder for a while to see how you operate your system (with respect, you might have 'bad habits' which are not apparent when our only channel is email), it's impossible to say with absolute certainty.
But here's my reckoning about your problem, for what little it might be worth to you. Your Aperture library file was corrupted at some unknown point. Ongoing use made the problem worse. Then it got to the stage where you began noticing empty projects, but by that stage, it was too late. Even then when you ran the first aid routines, the damage was too deeply into the library file for recovery to be possible.
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In your case, there might have been a pre-existing problem in your Aperture v2 library file which came through the upgrade to v3. Or you might have incurred a corruption from early v3 crashes. We'll never know for certain but, without getting too technical, that's my reckoning.
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Aperture = iPhoto + Bridge Photo Downloader + Photoshop?

I am considering to use Aperture to streamline my workflow but I wonder about its file management capability. Let me explain the details:
I love iPhoto to browse, find and preview photos. It provides the most intuitive, easy and fast way for that. The interface is also nice. The photo-editing capability is negligible for me as I use Photoshop for this.
But I really hate the way it manages imported photos as Rolls and keep everything hidden under the 'Package'. So instead, I use Adobe's Bridge Photo Downloader from Photoshop to download photos from my cameras/iPhone and I set it to organize the files into folders: year/year-month/date-time of the photos taken. Then I'd import them to iPhoto - but without copying the originals. So basically I create a Reference Library for my iPhoto. I then tag/assigning Keywords the photos accordingly (I have plenty of keywords assigned). I sometimes create Events or Albums too - especially great for showing photos on my computer to friends and family.
Photoshop is set as the external app to edit photos so from iPhoto I can open the file in Photoshop (which I have been using for all my photo editing needs including RAW).
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Alternately, and this would be much more tedious, you could import them all into Aperture as managed photos, and then use Aperture to "relocate masters" to somewhere else. That's sort of like two steps where one (my first paragraph) would suffice.
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When I edit a RAW file in Photoshop, Photoshop keeps the new setting within the RAW file itself without creating new file and I can go back and make further changes or revert back to original state - all in the file itself.
Are you sure about that? I thought Photoshop used the sidecar XMP files for that sort of thing. I'm no expert, but there's generally no provision in the file formats (including RAW files) for "this is how you undo something." I don't use Photoshop like that, but it sounds fishy that Photoshop will choose to write new data to a RAW file, as RAW files are proprietary and will never be produced by anything but a camera. It sounds doubly fishy that it will also write *undo data* to a RAW file. Again, I'm no expert at Photoshop, but I am an expert at software engineering, and it sounds pretty strange and error-prone.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3359633
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Hi. I'm new to Aperture and an advanced iPhoto user. I started using Aperture sharing the same library with iPhoto (that new functionallity).
I've read lots of manuals and tutorials (Apple's and others) as well as this support topics. I understand iPhoto Events are now Aperture Projects and I've read a lot about how should it be organized and so on.
My problem is: I got, for example, 4 iPhoto Events with the name "Friends". The appear in Apperture as 4 Projects named "Friends". I decided to rename one of them and the I came back to "Friends" name. Aperture won't let me: it appends "(1)". It seems I cannot name to Projects the same way, although I have that.
Before: Friends, Friends, Friends, Friends
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I have that duplicated name because it is like a title, photos of my friends in different time (one Friends is from 2005, other from 2010, and so on, for example).
It seems pretty bad I have to come up with a new name for each new Project, considering I have hundreds of them today. Any tips? Thanks.

If there is nothing separating the images then put them all in the same project. If you have a project Friends you know all your friends images are in there and you can find the ones you want by date or keyword or even Face.
There is no requirement to have the images from different times at the bar to be in different projects. I personally wouldn't work that way but if having a project called Friends at Bar works for you then place all the images of your friends at the bar in that project.
Of course another way to look at this is to use albums to pull all the images of your Friends at Bars together. Don't have the name of the project organize your library, create albums and/or smart albums to collect the images into meaningful groupings.
regards

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For those in the know,
Are iPhoto Events analogous to Aperture Projects?
I am considering purchasing Aperture 3 with the goal of leaving iPhoto behind.
I really like the way events are managed and displayed in iPhoto.
Should I be safe in considering Aperture's Projects like iPhoto events.
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Any help would be appreciated.
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Damien,
If I were you, I'd download a trial version of Aperture and see if it works the way you want. (Even if it doesn't work how you want, you might still be happy with how it works.)
Aperture Projects are loosely analogous to iPhoto Events. However, a Project can have any number of other containers (albums, slideshows, etc) below it, so it is much more versatile. However, if you don't use any other organization within a Project, than the Event/Project analogy is pretty sound.
As for viewing Events in iPhoto by day, I wasn't aware that was a function of iPhoto. I know you can view Event-by-Event, and if your events are split into days, you will get a grid of days (really events) showing you the "key" photo in each Event. There is a view of all of your projects within Aperture that does the same thing. (I rarely use that, though, since I can see a list of all of my projects and just click on an item in the list to see all the pictures.)
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