Deletion of masters

Dear Gurus
we have duplicate master in our system so i have blocked all the duplicate master but still they exist in the database and visible on screen anyone search , so i want to remove them permanently from the system i.e. from the database , so please tell me the procedure to delete the duplicate master.
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How can i delete the masters of iPhoto without losing my photos

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iphoto 9.5.1
I am currently keeping my iPhoto library on my 256 SS Main Drive of my MacBook Pro.
How can I delete the masters of iPhoto without losing my photos in the main iPhoto display library and all their masters and edits.
I take loads of photos and import them and then will keep only 5% of the ones that I import. As a result I have a masters folder of over 50GB and actual photos that take up less that 5GD. Is it possible to delete the master folder without losing all the photos and without having to pain stakingly go through every folder and pick out from literally hundreds the ones that i kept and edited. How do I reduce the size of the masters just down to the ones that I have kept and not every single photo and video that I imported in the history of my iPhoto experience.
If I delete the master folder will all the photos and their edits be deleted.
If so, is there a way to just delete the masters that are no longer in the iPhoto library, while keeping the masters and edits of the ones that I clearly want to keep because they are the ones that I did keep.
Why do they keep the masters of photos that I clearly deleted and emptied the trash on.
I like to maximize space and this would help a lot to clear up for me. Thank you.

All the 5000 photos that reappeared after repair today were from my canada mega event, but for some reason it did not do it for all the other mega events. It is a start but not complete.
Try the rebuild to recover more lost photos.
If "rebuild" with iPhoto does not recover more lost photos, rebuild with iPhoto Library Manager as described by Old Toad in this thread, but rebuilding with iPhoto Library manager will not recover your projects like cards, bilks, slideshows.
Re: iPhoto glitch with retained masters https://discussions.apple.com/message/26354337#26354337
Mostly the way I organize all my photos is that I make a folder for each country I visit. i.e. New Zealand Folder, Canada Folder, India Folder; and at the same time, any photos that I import I delete directly from new imports and just keep the ones i want and then i go up to events and move the latest imported event into a mega event for that country and so they all get joined in a sense.
As a workaround, merge the events right after importing, before you start deleting photos. And empty the trash always before merging projects.
You might consider to use albums instead of events for your country lists. I simply use the events as basic containers. One event for each day of shooting photos. I found, that smart albums and searches are quicker in iPhoto and Aperture, if the events are smaller, also browsing is easier, if the events are not so large.
You can merge albums and remove photos from albums without the problems mentioned above.

Aperture 2 or 3: delete unused masters?

I am upgrading my 2 library to import into version 3. Before doing that I want to clean up my old library by deleting unused masters from the library.In other words: I only want to retain those photos that I have placed into Albums. I can't figure out any way to do this other than export all the individual albums and then import the files into V. 3. I certainly don't want to take the time to do all that. It seems that leaving Aperture bloated with photos I don't want to use is very inefficient, never mind being a space hog.
Anyone got any solutions, in either version?
Thanks

Ian Wood's tool could help but a quick and dirty way in A2 would be to keyword photos that are in albums. A PIA but...
RB
Ps. Ap3 has a search by album criteria that you could use.

Receive error when trying to delete referenced masters

When I try to empty the Aperture Trash and move referenced masters to the system trash, I receive an error that reads, "You don’t have access to the System Trash on the master files’ volume"
The masters are stored on a photos share on my Windows Home Server. I have admin rights to everything. At least I thought I did.
I can manually delete the masters by going through Finder, but how do I fix this so I can delete referenced masters through Aperture?
Many thanks!
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Aperture 3 not deleting referenced masters

I have upgraded to Aperture 3 and unfortunately it does not delete the (newly imported) referenced master file.
Aperture 2 always asked whether I also wanted to delete the master or not, when deleting a version. Aperture 3 has not asked me this question yet. Is this by design or is something not working?
When a version is selected in an album and I select "File>Delete master and all versions" the versions are deleted, but when I go to the folder where the reference masters are located the file is still there. The files are in a folder on my Mac book pro.
Thanks for any thoughts/solutions

Aperture 3 added a "Trash".
The deleted versions go into the trash, and you have to empty the trash to truly delete them. At this point it will ask if you want to delete the referenced masters as well.
As a pro, I'd rather not have a trash... But oh well, gotta appease the newbies.
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Aperture 3 - Deleting Referenced Masters in Finder

Here's my scenario: I've recently installed Aperture 3, and imported many iPhoto Libraries into it. I currently have just over 100K photos in a managed library, and performance is slow. I'm switching now to referenced masters to (hopefully) improve performance. I suspect that I have several thousand duplicate photos (could be as high as 10K duplicates because my wife has mangled the iPhoto libraries over the years).
Once I've finished converting from managed masters to referenced masters, my plan was to run a duplicate checking app to delete all the dupes using the finder. The question is - if I delete a referenced master in the finder, will that screw up my Aperture library?
I did attempt to use Duplicate Annihilator on Aperture itself, but because my library is huge it would take about a week to complete, and I can never go seven days without rebooting (I travel a lot). I think because I have so many photos, I need to delete dupes in the finder.
Any advice would be appreciated . . .
- Nick -

The one drawback to doing it outside of Aperture is that you will be left with a bunch of missing files.
You could setup a filter with *File Status* missing and then if you're sure there isn't anything in the result that is truly missing just delete them Aperture.
Haven't done this myself so can't say for certain it won;t cause problems but I don;t see why it should.

Deleting referenced masters whose versions are already deleted

I imported a bunch of pictures in my macbook pro as referenced masters from my camera. As I went through the photos there were several pictures that I wanted to delete so I simply moved them to the Trash and later emptied thinking the photos are removed.
But when I had a look at the folder, all the masters were still there. Is there a way I can remove those masters from that folder.

when you empty the trash in Ap3 you should get a dialog asking you if you want to move referenced files to the system trash. If you check that checkbox they will then end up in your system trash. If you don't nothing will happen to them, they will stay where you are.
I cannot test right now but if you are not getting that dialog there maybe a way to tell it to go away forever (maybe from last some previous point where you emptied your trash) you may want to reset your warnings in preferences to get it back.
RB

Oops! Deleted Referenced Masters

I think I've made a mistake I can't undo, but figured I'd check.
Been slowly bringing some photos into Aperture, including some recent wrestling pictures that were in a folder on the desktop. My intention has been to important them as managed images, but I think I brought these files in as referenced, and then in a rush to clean up my hard drive, I deleted the folder from the desktop. And I hadn't done any backing up yet! So now all I'm left with are images in the browser that look nice, will go full screen, but I can't do anything else with them (like email or export). I'm sunk, right?
Several lessons to be learned here (careful on referenced vs. managed, and of course, back up).

hello, michael
quote: "Been slowly bringing some photos into Aperture, including some recent wrestling pictures that were in a folder on the desktop. My intention has been to important them as managed images, but I think I brought these files in as referenced, and then in a rush to clean up my hard drive, I deleted the folder"
Boomerang
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3985833&#3985833
quote: ""I can't do anything else with them (like email or export). I'm sunk, right? ""
no, you're not sunk.
you can still drag the Previews out of the Browser to the Desktop and email them, print them etc. and/or reimport them in to Aperture (from the Desktop) as JPEGs or use them as references in iWork & iLife apps.
quote: "One more: why am I not seeing any badge on these referenced images?"
Metadata Overlay probably not switch on for the Browser.
View/Metadata Overlays/Grid
victor

Delete versions and masters in aperture and finder

When I import pictures to Aperture I store the originals in Finder/pictures. While browsing through my pictures in Aperture I would like to delete the masters in Finder/pictures at the same time as I am in Aperture. Is there a way to do so? Or some way to update my Finder/picture file to reflect what I deleted or created (new versions) in Aperture?
Thanks.

I think you're asking: 1) can you find the master for a version you're looking at, 2) if you're looking at a master, can you locate all the versions (or instances in albums), and 3) can you find which albums a photo is used in if you're seeing it in another album or looking at the master. (Versions and having a photo in multiple albums aren't the same thing in Aperture lingo.)
Good questions and I think many of us would want to have those capabilities.
Unfortunately I can only answer one of the questions. You could search for the file name if you find the file in an album and you'd be taken to the master if you're high in the hierarchy. It can be shown in the Metadata HUD if you select the Versions and Filenames preset.
The structure of the Aperture photo storage is well described in
<http://homepage.mac.com/bagelturf/aparticles/library/brown/brown.html> and make help one understand the possibilities.
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Is it possible to delete a group of rejected masters from an Aperture proj?

When I try to do this by selecting edit >"Select All" or holding the shift key and selecting all the images, I can only get one rejected master to delete.
I am trying to delete 100 masters in one swoop. Can I do that?

Yes,
1) use the ratings feature to assign a reject rating to the images
2) use the filter to view only rejected images - then do select all.
3) go file->delete masters
4) empty trash
They should be gone now.
The next time you update the vault there will be a folder adjacent to the vault that will contain the rejected files that were deleted from the vault. If you like you can drag this folder to the trash.
This way you get about 4 chances to change your mind on a file deletion. It may seem excessive but it sure can come in handy and save your bacon.

Deleting masters and versions in Aperture

I can't seem to delete either masters or versions from my aperture project or library. I select the picture, press apple-delete, get the expected dialogue boxes warning me what will happen, but when I go ahead and press delete nothing happens. Very frustrating

Hi,
I can't seem to delete either masters or versions from my aperture project or library. I select the picture, press apple-delete, get the expected dialogue boxes warning me what will happen, but when I go ahead and press delete nothing happens. Very frustrating
After the dialog box, you should be pressing the <Enter> or <Return> key to confirm, not the <Delete> key.

Missing (most, but not all) masters from managed project

I just found that I have a one project in my library where most of the raw master files (NEF) are missing. The project contains 160 photos, but only 14 masters are present and these are randomly distributed in the project (not sequential files). My entire library is managed (not referenced). All photos were imported at one time.
All the edited versions appear in the browser with no problem, including the "full" version and the Quick Preview ("P"). Oddly, when I press "M" to view the master image, it displays correctly with no adjustments, but the message "Master Image not Found" appears where it would normally say "Master Image." I only noticed the masters were missing when I tried to export a version and got the follwing message:
"Versions with unavailable master files cannot be exported. The selected master image is either offline or not found. Please reconnect it and try again."
I searched in the library and vaults for original the filenames, but they do not exist in either location. If all the masters were missing, I would have concluded that I imported that project as a referenced file and later deleted the masters, but 14 of the 160 are still there.
I have two questions:
First, does anyone have any idea how the master files could be deleted so I can avoid this in the future? I am beginning to think this is simply a corruption of the database (not reassuring).
Second, is there any way to recover the versions that clearly exist in the project so I can reimport these as masters? While viewing them in the browser, I can zoom in to the original resolution on both the master and the edited version, but can't perform any further edits to the image (although I can add metadata). I'd be happy to retrieve a JPEG version, even though it appears I have lost the original raw file.
By the way, I have already performed all three library repair options on Aperture launch (Repair Permissions, Repair Database and Rebuild Database).
Thanks for any help,
Dave

From the OP's other thread:
I have three vaults (on three HDs) backing up one Aperture library (two onsite and one for offsite backup). Two of the vaults simultaneously became corrupted and I could no longer back up to them.
That plus the live library seems like 3 to me.
You wrote:
With managed-Masters one can back up a broken Library to a dozen perfect drives and all that results is a dozen identically broken Libraries.
Which is why backing up without verify the backup is a meaningless exercise. This goes for any backup method, How do you know your TM or CCC backup or simple copy of your masters is good?
If the Masters are backed up prior to Aperture the problem resolves (versions still lost).
And this is true also for managed libraries.
If (backed up) Referenced Masters are used and the Library becomes corrupt the problem resolves (versions still lost).
Not sure what you are trying to say here.
Proper use of Vaults also save Versions, but only prior to the time that the Library became corrupted - and we do not necessarily know the instant a Library becomes corrupt.
Proper use of vaults also saves masters if the library is managed. Ans see above for why we verify backups.
Look I agree that the masters need to be backed up in other than the vault (or TM or CCC or any one place). I use the Aperture backup dialog in the input window:
But once the masteres are backed-up referenced masters has no inherent saftey advantage over managed masters. In fact if all you do is backup before import and then place the masters on their own disk they are slightly less secure as they are only in two places.
In my operation I have my masters in three places, the import backup location the library and the vault I create from that library. In fact I have multiple vaults so in fact I have my masters in a minimum of 5 places. And its all fairly transparent.
So continue to sing the praise of referenced masters, for some and in some situations they are the way to go But from a security standpoint they have no advantage over managed masters.

How to make managed masters available in Finder & other apps

Hi all,
In discussing a Referenced vs Managed storage, one of the issues is not being able to see your Masters in the Finder, so other apps can access them.
You can get at the Masters in your managed Library quite easily, although
BEWARE...
DO NOT MOVE OR DELETE THESE FILES...
OR OPEN THEM WITHOUT MAKING A COPY TO ANOTHER LOCATION OUTSIDE THE APERTURE LIBRARY...
or you will disrupt Aperture's management of these files
JUST COPY WHAT YOU NEED OUT TO ANOTHER LOCATION before working on them.
OK, WARNING OVER...
This method will give you the ability to browse your masters stored in the Managed Aperture Library from the Finder. It will also give other apps access to the files, but DO NOT OPEN THESE FILES WITH ANOTHER APP FROM THAT LOCATION..;copy them out and then use them.
This would be ideal if I could make the contents of the Alias read only without effecting the file permissions within the Library.
Maybe I will write an app that does this...that way if you did open the files in another app it would make you save it somewhere else and prevent any problems.
OK...here is how...
1) Open the desired managed Aperture Library by right-clicking and selecting "Open Package Contents"
2) Select the Folder called Masters inside the Aperture Library
3) Right Click this Masters folder and select "Make Alias"
4) Drag the new alias folder you just created called “Masters alias” out to a convenient spot, like the desktop.
4) Go back and delete the Masters Alias folder that you made inside the managed Aperture Library. Empty Trash.
From your new Masters alias folder on the desktop, you can now browse all your masters. I suggest setting it to icon view, so you can see all the images easily.
OK...understand what you have now...this folder and its contents are NOT YOURS to play with, you gave them to Aperture to manage...it is OK to browse and look at the masters, and make copies of the masters to another location outside this folder hierarchy for another app to work on, but do not open, move, delete or in any way change the structure or contents of this folder...or Aperture will not be pleased with you, lol.
The structure is simple to navigate, date & time, if you have an idea of when you shot the pictures you are in good shape. In icon view the pix come up quickly and you can QUICKLOOK using the spacebar, of course.
Anyway, this method, while imperfect, gives you immediate Finder access to your managed masters for BROWSING and COPYING SOMEWHERE ELSE ONLY.
Use at your own risk, and please don’t flame me if you screw up the library structure by deleting or changing anything within that folder.
Sincerely,
K. J. Doyle

This would be a way to backup the images in a manner where you are not dependent on Apple products.
No it wouldn't. You're using the Finder, aliases, a Mac and everything else.
but want to backup to a portable drive with just the images.
File -> Export your Masters will do exactly the same thing.
Regards
TD

Aperture/iphoto missing masters

I'm praying that someone can help me. I use iPhoto and Aperture both. I have about a 60GB library that hold approaximately 22,000 images. I run my programs on the OSX Drive which is an 128GB SSD and I store the photos on a separate internal 750GB 7200 drive.
The problem recentlty is that about 12,000 masters appear to be missing. In the browser view in Aperture I get the little yellow triangle with with the exclamation point inside. Most of the missing master appear to be from 2009 and earlier but I do have some masters from they period 2000-2010.
If I click on the "show package contents" of the library folder and go to the master folder the only years that are showing is 2011, 2012 and 2013. Nothing from all prior years despite the fact that I can see the preview, high quality in almost full screen in Aperture.
WHAT I DID NOTICE is that if I look at photos from 2010 in Aperture that HAVE the master available, the bottom bar of the photo when I click on it says "From MobileMe". If I click on one with the master missing (the little yellow triangle) it says "iPhoto Original".
All I know is that I want my master's back. They are almosty ALL photos of of my kids.Can anyone help? I've tried all rebuild/repair options in iPhoto and Aperture. I'm almost certain I didn't delete the masters. I don;t have a time machine backup. I did have other backups of the library but when I go to those, I have the sam issue, tons of missing masters even in the backup.
I'm worried that I am totally screwed and I'm heartbroken. I can still see the photos which is what I don;t get. I guess in the worst case I can go through and do shift-cmd-4 and take screen captures of any critical photos.
I'm wondering if someone can help me. Is there some way to batch reproduce the masters from the data that I do have? It's not just a thumbnail---it's a high quality image. Have I some how created versions and deleted orginals? Can someone--anyone help me?

Lots of questions here. Mac version 10.8.2 Aperture Version 3.4.3. I previously used iPhoto so that library existed first. THen I switched to Aperture. The only surviving library is the one with the missing masters. It's been a while but I believe that this was the original iPhoto library and when Apple gave us the capability to interchangably use the library in Aperture or iPhoto, I just began to use this library principally in Aperture. In other words I just opened Aperture and pointed it to the old iPhoto library.
Some of the missing images were published on Mobile Me (yes I have those masters). I don;t still have a copy of iDisk but the photos would not ALL be there anyway. I am missing about 13,000 masters--almost all the "old" photos that existed in the original iPhoto Library.
I've tried locating the referenced file to no avail. I can't see the master in the lower pane.
If you cannot find the master image files anywhere on your Mac, but still see the images in Aperture's browser, you can at least save the previews of your images - just drag the image versions in question from Aperture's browser to a folder on your Desktop. That will save jpeg files of your images. These will not have the original quality of the master image files, however.
Regarding this method---yes that is what I've done and re-imported the files (about 25,000) into a brand new library but I am missing the high quality versions of the 13,000 masters. What's REALLY interesting here is that this new library (a blend of about 50/50 high quality images and the lower quality images that don;t have masters) is about 30GB. The library that is showing the missing masters with the arching arrow and the yellow triangle with the exclamation point is more than 60GB. This would SEEM to indicate that the masters of all 25,000 images are there somewhere!!
Thanks for taking the time to help me. I really want to recover these things.

Versions in my Projects that are Masters

When I import an image into Aperture and it goes into a Project, if I delete this Image by going to "Delete Version" this deletes the Version and the "Master" (wherever /it/ is) without a warning is that right? I ask in part because the Aperture Documentation states specifically that there are both "Masters" and "Versions" in Projects in a managed images database and this is uber confusing.
Also, if I import an image into Aperture and it goes into a Project, and then I create an Album and drag and drop this "Version" into the Album - so that there is a "Version" in the Album - if I go to "Delete Version" from within the Album, Aperture will delete the Version in the Album *AND* it will delete the "Version" in the Project without a warning, is that right?
Both of these appear to be the case no matter how many "Versions" of the image you have in a Project or have copied to an Album.
I guess I have found it terribly confusing for Aperture to be /then/ giving me a Warning Dialog that says I am deleting a "Master" that may be referenced from other Albums. Because I personally am MORE concerned with deleting the /original images/ that I have imported which I can do from within Projects or from within Albums without any alert.
Am I missing something here?
THANKS.

Yeah. This just seems very weird to me.
I mean, I /really/ care about deleting my Masters and I get no warning about this whatsoever in any cases (deleting from a Project or Deleting a Version from an Album). I could be deleting a Version in an Album and accidentally think that I have another Version in another Album and poof away goes the Master when this is not what I thought I was doing.
And the warning that /does/ come when you are going to delete a Master from within a Project /sounds/ like it is about deleting a Master - - that by the way /may/ or that may /not/ be linked to an Album. When in reality it is simply telling you the Version in the Album is going away. Then if you delete a Master that /doesn't/ have one of those links to a Version in an Album you get /no/ warning. Yikes.
I think they need to clear up the language on the prompt IMHO because right now it is uber confusing. And really there should be two:
I: "You are deleting a Version in an Album that will also delete the Version which is a Master in a Project".
II: "You are deleting a Master from a Project which will also delete a Version that is contained in an Album".
- Jon

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