Duplicated Photos Cannot Be In Different Projects? Why?

If I duplicate a photo, either duplicate version or new version from master, that photo cannot be placed into a different project without dragging the other duplicates with it. Why?
This is NOT a stack. I know what a stack is. This isn't it.
Why does it do this? And is there a way to break the bonds between these duplicated photos?

Please read and follow DLScreative's advice above.
It may help you to mentally rename the Aperture storage containers. "Project" is, imho, misleading (and poorly chosen). Think of them simply as "boxes of shots". In the introduction to Aperture in the Help file (highly recommended reading prior to using Aperture in one's work), the general recommendation is made to make one Project for each shoot, so that if you take a walk at dawn, and then go to work and make a series of product shots of a new dog shampoo, and then your family surprises you at lunch (it's your birthday), when you upload your shots that afternoon you import them into three Aperture boxes: "Dawn in the Park", "Scampoo Mock-up", and "Birthday Surprise at Office".
A "Project" is just a box in which you store your (never altered) digital negatives.
Of course you have actual projects (small p) on which you are working: the Scampoo account, and in your spare time a book about the changes in city parks over the past quarter century. To organize your work on these, use Aperture's Folders and Albums.
In general, then (if this works for you) Projects are for input and storage, while Albums are for development and output.
Aperture's organizing tools give the user who is willing to learn how to use them the means to create a robust and flexible workflow.

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this should be an easy one, yet i can't figure it out. i simply want to copy a photo in one project and paste the copy into another project. i don't want to move the photo.

Just hold down the option key while dragging from one project folder to another - this will copy it, make sure you have the actual project folder as the drop target.
Realize you rarely need to copy anything to make it show up somewhere - if you create an album anywhere you can chuck images into the album from anywhere else and they will not be copied but just displayed together.
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Lightroom "subcontracts out" specialised external tasks, in this workflow, but is still your "main contractor": the image is otherwise located, viewed, managed, adjusted/presented and output entirely using LR.
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why is my iPhoto library duplicating photo's, sometimes 3 times ?

Your iPhoto library is not duplicating anything. Give virtually no information the only guess is that you imported an old iPhoto library into a new one. NEVER import one photo library into another one. If you did and still have the old library you can easily recover. Drag the library you messed up to the desktop and drag the old library to the pictures folder and launch iPhoto
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Why do the photos in my first InDesign project look really bad?

Why do the photos in my first InDesign project look really bad? Noticed as I "placed" them, some PDFs or JPEGs (not photos, but PDFs converted to JPEG) looked pretty distorted. Went ahead with the 60+ page project, converted to PDF, sent to client. He converted to a flipbook to proof and really didn't like the photos. Here's the irony. Upgraded to InDesign for this client. Was using Publisher as a standby until I could afford InDesign. Signed up with the Creative Cloud because job was overwhelming Publisher.
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helpmemama wrote:
Why do the photos in my first InDesign project look really bad? Noticed as I "placed" them, some PDFs or JPEGs (not photos, but PDFs converted to JPEG) looked pretty distorted. Went ahead with the 60+ page project, converted to PDF, sent to client. He converted to a flipbook to proof and really didn't like the photos. Here's the irony. Upgraded to InDesign for this client. Was using Publisher as a standby until I could afford InDesign. Signed up with the Creative Cloud because job was overwhelming Publisher.
I started the job without a whole lot of knowledge (or patience for the tutorials) and figured I just wing it (and get InDesign for Dummies). Am thinking somethingw as screwed up in the initial setting up of the job. So how do I figure out if this is the issue and can I fix it without redoing all 60+ pages. If anybody has an answer, please let me know.
Ok, first image on your indesign page or any other program for that matter are still images, they are no longer pdf's, jpg's, psd's, etc. Once they load into a program, the file format is no longer relevant until you save again. Onl;y on your drive is the format relavent.
Second, if you can help it, never use jpg's until you are completely done and will be sharing a jpg. Jpg's are a lossy format are are not the best for preserving quality on your drive. Each time you open a jpg, and save a jpg more data is lost, as that is how that format compresses the data, by throwing it way for ever.
Third, the problem may not even be with you, it could happen when that person created a flipbook. That is an unknown varible, one which could make you look bad when it had nothing to do with you.
Fourth, Pay attention to the pixel dimentions of your images, the higher those values are the better the quality. Scaling can and probably will reduce that quality. If you can, it is better to hide parts of the image by cropping with a frame than it is to scale the image. you can scale, but pay attention to it.
I will stop there for now, as some of what I wrote is based on assumtions. That normally does not work out too well.

Duplicating Photos in iPhoto '08 is rough - any solutions?

Two problems: One is that duplicating photos in iPhoto doesn't always work. Usually when I highlight a photo and select "Duplicate" I get a new version of the photo. Sometimes it does nothing at all, and other times it take me out of the event that I'm viewing making it so that I have to go back in and find the photo (which takes time. Are there updates or work-arounds for these problems?
2 - This is the bigger one. I select a photo and choose "Edit in external editor", Photoshop opens with the photo that I'm editing right there. Beautiful! But then I make my edits and try to save it under a different name (Save As) -- Where did the photo go? Isn't there a way to get it to save back into the iPhoto library? Or do I have to save to my desktop and reimport it (which creates a new event, so I then have to drag back to the original event.... big hassle).
Any suggestions on either or both issues? Thanks very much.
BR

berrett.rice wrote:
Two problems: One is that duplicating photos in iPhoto doesn't always work. Usually when I highlight a photo and select "Duplicate" I get a new version of the photo. Sometimes it does nothing at all, and other times it take me out of the event that I'm viewing making it so that I have to go back in and find the photo (which takes time. Are there updates or work-arounds for these problems?
There have been issues reported with duplicating photos in iPhoto - search the iPhoto forums for Duplicating
The bigger question is why you are doing lots of duplicates. Generally it is not necessary since iPhoto ALWAYS maintains the original and you can always revert to it if you need to - maybe you are making duplicates that are uncessary?
2 - This is the bigger one. I select a photo and choose "Edit in external editor", Photoshop opens with the photo that I'm editing right there. Beautiful! But then I make my edits and try to save it under a different name (Save As) -- Where did the photo go? Isn't there a way to get it to save back into the iPhoto library? Or do I have to save to my desktop and reimport it (which creates a new event, so I then have to drag back to the original event.... big hassle).
When you edit in an external editor you just save (not save as) and the photo goes back to iPhoto and iPhoto maintains the original and tracks the modified version and everything is cool - when you do a save as you break the chain and iPhoto no longer knows about your photo or how it relates to the photos that you started with - so if you do that you have to reimport the new photo into iPhoto (just as you would any other new photo) and iPhoto will now maintain it as an original and track any modifications you do to it (along with the one you started with which is a different original and maybe modified version)
So I think the answer to both questions may be a better understanding of how iPhoto works and your workflow
LN
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Iphoto 6 "photo cannot be found,etc.

Somehow about 300+ of my 3400 photos now have been lost except for the thumbnails that have been degraded from 2272 X 1704 pixels down to 1/4 of that. They can only be viewed in Preview - can't e-mail or anything else either. I kept getting the msg. "the volume for 105-057_crw cannot be found or "photo cannot be opened because original item cannot be found". Many times trying to view a thumbnail in a folder with that conflicting number I would get a different photo.
Backup can't be done because I get those messages a million times b4 I can burn the library. The photos with duplicate i.d. numbers (probably from different cameras) are now gone after doing the rebuilding.
I guess the only thing left is repopulating. Can anybody advise - will it help or likely aggravate?
In short Iphoto has really screwed me up. I brought a lot of this over from windows (canon program) and now have lost a lot of new pictures. A lot I didn't like about the PC but this stinks.

Hi CM -
Not sure that this will solve all your problems, but I wanted to pass along a discovery I had (posted previously on another thread, but I thought it closely enough related to repost).
I was receiving the consistent error, "couldn't find DSCN####.JPG". The files in question were there, could be found using spotlight in the find file dialog and otherwise, but iPhoto would not accept them. I was able to open them using other apps, duplicate them, repair permissions, etc etc so on and so forth.
Stop. Look. Listen. The file name being identified by iPhoto was "....JPG", and the file name was actually "....jpg". I manually changed the case on the file tag to "JPG". iPhoto now accepted the file. Repeat. Identical performance.
After doing about as many as I could stand this way I made sure changing the case of the filename before the tag didn't make a difference (or at least sure enough for me, YMMV). Then I got Automator to Rename Finder Items - Change Case. On the entire Data folder.
Came back in the morning and it was done. Ran thru the remainder of the Upgrading Thumbnails task that iPhoto was running. Had to tell it which file was which on a random selection of files -- was quicker just to select the file it wanted than to try to figure out why it couldn't find them for itself. Once that was done, my library is all better.
Computers are such dandy labor-saving devices.
HTH
j
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The Mystery of the Duplicating Photos with Varying resolutions and Sizes by Sony Z1 Compact

about the duplicating photos with varying resolutions and Sizes problem... I have a band-aid fix to this without deleting everything in your phone. What you do is to find time to actually MANUALLY DELETE the extra photos. Don't delete it by Taping on the Album app and deleting everything on the home photos.
Instead tap the album then on the UPPER LEFT CORNER (If you've updated the albums) tap the 3 bars beside the album icon to access the album menu, then tap the FOLDERS choice.
You should see alot of folders with Thumbnails named with numbers and different resolutions. Delete all the folders labeled as Thumbnails or cache. *note that you cannot delete whole folders but the folder gets deleted automatically after all the contents inside it is deleted
Afterwards, go to your phone's settings->App-> Album
Then tap the Clear Data button
After that restart your phone.
This actually "fixes" the problem for a while but usually after a few restarts or Phone charge the folders comeback and you have to redo the whole process again. But the folders that are made becomes fewer than the 1st occurrence of this problem and deleting the photos shouldn't take as long as the 1st.
Honestly i think this is definitely an Application bug and should be fixed by Sony, since you know its their built in app for Multimedia

yea that also helps since it's a bug caused by the new update. I'm just waiting for Sony to fix the bug, i don't really mind deleting the thumbnails

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Hello
I'm working on a WWI documentary that requires an extremely large amount of Media. I was just wondering, if (besides exporting hundreds of QT files), perhaps just capturing all of this media, (spread out), into several FCP Project Files?
In the screen shot below, note that there are 2 FCP projects open at one time. Why? Because I thought it might help re-distrtibuting all the captured media into more than just one FCP Project file. Is this advisable? Would creating more FCP files containing more and media actually be better than capturing soooo many captured archival clips into just one main FCP Project file?
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Screen Shot;
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It is absolutely advisable. This keeps project sizes down to manageable levels. This is one of the tips I give in my tutorial DVD on Getting Organized with Final Cut Pro.
Bear in mind, that if your footage and sequences are in different projects, you cannot match back to the clip in the Browser. Once a clip is cut into a sequence that resides in a different project, the link from that media and the original clip in it's original project is broken. That can be a pain, so I try not to break up projects unless I have to. And LARGE projects I find that I have to.
ALthough it can still be a pain. When you need to find the footage that you know is in the same bin as that clip...and you don't know what that bin is? Sorry...match back doesn't work. So, just a caviat.
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Hi,
I'm wondering why it is that Final Cut Pro cannot keep different AV setups and scratch disks for different projects. I am working with several different projects on my computer. Some in PAL, some in NTSC, some capturing from Betacam, others from DV, and all having different capture settings, including different scratch disks.
Every time I open a different project, I have to reset every one of these things...you'd think it was an incredibly basic thing to have these things "remembered" by project, so that you didn't have to reconfigure everything every time you switched (even with making an Easy Setup it's a pain). Or maybe it IS incredibly basic and I'm just missing something?
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This is something I've hated about FCP for years and years...today I was thinking about it and thought, it can't be, it's just such a basic thing, available in so many applications...I must be wrong and there must be a way to do it that I don't know about! I mean, for me it's enough to want to take the Pro off the end of Final Cut Pro. For people who use this tool in the industry I'd say it's almost a must-have. I mean, you can work without it, but it IS a big pain!
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I have problems with my imovie 09. After several days of work with an imovie project I was again about to start editing my project after startup of my mac. I played through the project and everything seemed fine, but when a movie clip was moved infront of a still picture instead of after, the whole project became uneditable and unplayable. When trying to play the project in full screen mode a totally different project is played. Shutting Imovie and/or the mac down does not help. In some cases I have managed to get the red cursor moving along in my project. However, no movie is played in the screen in the right hand corner, -it is totally black, and the audio is again from a totally different project. I am not able to export the project as all the export options are grey. Some of the other projects worked fine and some did not, -and the functionality seemed a bit random from time to time after rebooting/ exiting and reentering imovie. My first guess would be that this is a memory porblem. However, looking at my activity monitor it seems that I'm only using 1.73 GB of system memory of a total of 4....I have tried remove old projects and also quite a bit of clips in my library to minimize memory use. Now it seems that all the rest of the projects are working fine, but my current project is still corrupt. I have tried copying the first clip of my project into a blank project, but it will only play in full screen mode, not in the screen in the right hand corner.
I am working on a mac mini with 2.26 Ghz intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3.
I would be very grateful if anyone out there could help me out...Is my project totally corrupt beyond the point of no repair? Why has this happened, and how is it possible that something like this can happen without any kind of warning?
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Thanks for your reply AppleMan1958. Unforunately the playback problem was only experienced in the project described, - all other projects played fine....and I tried a lot of different ways to do it...so I really believe the whole project, including the playback (which did not work in the editing window in the right hand corner either, -nothing was shown there and the red marker line would not move across the project) just suddenly become totally corrupt...However, after deleting the project as described above and installing imovie11 I have done the whole thing over again and completed the project without problems this time.
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I currently have 30,000 photos in my i photo library in300 events. Ientally ad. I add photos each day to different events over many years. Currently I download my photos on one of my 6 MacBooks , and eventually I synch the photos to my phone

i have 30,000 photos in 300 events in I photo.
i Add photos each day into different events
i have to manually add the photos into one of my 5 MacBooks , synch to my phone and then synch each device to have all my photos be up to date with each event
is there now a way to add photos to my 30,000 photo library on just one device anfd have all my devices synched perfectly through the cloud into events exactly as it appears on my first device ...like our contacts or other synched items on the cloud?
it is critical that the events are maintained and the photos go exactly into place?
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Knickfan 1970

Hi Terence:
so that sounds like better news...I should be OK when this happens?
Essentially my events become albums...I still have the separation ..correct?
Why would this be a problem?
This was a response from an earlier post from Vanoord that concerned me: quote..see next-
Events has been removed from Photos - it's replaced by 'Moments'.
'Moments' are like 'Events', but split up by the software and you have no control over what goes where, or what they're called. If you've got 300 Events now, you can look forward to about 3,000 'Moments'.
This response implies that all my 300 events will become separated into thousands of moments. What does this mean? Is this true?
Won't my Events just become albums as you suggested?
I have years of events that have accumulated and collated photos. They must stay separated.
****the other thing I was unclear about was the synching part..
Example:
I have 300 albums with 30K photos distributed in various numbers in each album ( used to be events according to your response)
I add some photos in each album each day
I set all my devices to the cloud etc...
the cloud synchs from my designated "source" Macbook...
the cloud sees this and uploads
then the confusing part...the other devices ( MacBooks, I pad, i phone) all will see the synch and can then be designated to download to each device in the original form as we view it on a Macbook or i phone? What does "full resolution" or optimized previews mean as Leonie replied above?
I need my JPEG images for my education keynote presentations and e mailing images as required from each event as needed ( soon to be albums)
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