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Hi,
Is there a way to create a Smart Folder to collect all the files that have no Spotlight Comments attached to them?
Do Comments get copied when backing up to an external device? If not, is there a best practice?
Regards,
Nawaf
MacBook 13" 2Ghz 2GB Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Thanks Steve
This is the disadvantage of storing your files as referenced. Importing all referenced files is not the best solution for me, since I have a lot (100.000+) files.
However, I just realized that you have to open all stacks in order to have Aperture show the right number of photos in the database. I found that I only missed 3 files and I did find them.
Problem solved. Advise to others: be very structured when you store your files as referenced files.
In future releases of Aperture there could be a function that would allow you to import files from folders that are not already inported.
Aperture rocks.... sorting and filtering is great. Metadata management is sweet and makes things so much more easy.
Karsten

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