Folder-Naming when organizing photos on an external location
Hi
By now I use to organize my photos in the internal aperture libary. Since Aperture 1.5 has the possibility to save the photos itselfs in an seperate folder on the filesystem i fiddled around with this option a little bit.
It's a nice option. But there is one thing which is a little anoing. After importing a set of new photos they will be stored in my projekts foder with the "project" name which is "untitled Project" by that time. So the new folder name is "untitled Project". After renaming the Project within Aperture the folder name is still "untitled Project". Now i need to "Save the project on a new loction" to have the folder name renamed as well. A little bit of unessesary extra work in my opinion. And the old folder "untitled Project" still remains on the filesystem, empty.
Did i miss something or is this really the way it works ?
Best regards,
Stephan
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8) Aperture 1.5
tmsadera
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
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2. Copy the iPhoto Library Folder as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. *Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location.* From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
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