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I am a new user of Aperture (v2.1), having been a Lightroom user. I had lots of files on my hard drive organized by year and subject.
I imported them into separate new project folders (choosing the option of leaving them in their current location when importing). All looks great in my project folders when I am in Aperture, and everything is where it should be.
Now here's the problem . . . when I use Finder and look into the folder the images were stored in, the folders are still there with the photos still inside, but now there are many individual file folders, each with one image inside (RAW) . . . so, say I had 50 raw images in my original folder on my hard disk, I now have that folder and 50 other individual folders, each with the file name of the one image that is inside the folder. As you can imagine, this is using up a lot of disk space.
I hope someone can help with this. I figure I am doing something wrong, but in searching for answers, I could not find anything about this problem.
Thanks in advance for any help on this.
Kathy Nelson

Have you tried searching for something like IMG_1234.jpg
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