Folders vs. Projects?

I have all of my photos in folders and then the folders inside of projects. Is this okay long term? Do I need to reverse it and get them into projects and then the projects into folders?

Are you using Aperture? In Aperture, Folders cannot hold Images. Folders hold other containers, and those containers hold Images. What are the bottom-level containers in your Library structure?
Here is a short overview of some of the parts of Aperture.

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I always get the following error message:
Process:
Aperture [1458]
Path:
/Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture
Identifier:
com.apple.Aperture
Version:
3.3 (3.3)
Build Info:
Aperture-250049000000000~12
App Item ID:
408981426
App External ID: 8467546
Code Type:
X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [408]
Date/Time:
2012-06-21 17:40:06.391 +1000
OS Version:
Mac OS X Server 10.7.4 (11E53)
Report Version: 9
Interval Since Last Report:
385565 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:
9
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 26084 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   9
Anonymous UUID:
B81BAFC3-76FB-43AA-B024-D66623F1A786
Crashed Thread: 13
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[__NSCFString appendString:]: nil argument'
*** First throw call stack:
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0x00007fff853f3f56 __exceptionPreprocess + 198
1   libobjc.A.dylib
0x00007fff83298d5e objc_exception_throw + 43
2   CoreFoundation
0x00007fff853f3d8a +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] + 106
3   CoreFoundation
0x00007fff853f3d14 +[NSException raise:format:] + 116
4   CoreFoundation
0x00007fff85449fe4 mutateError + 148
5   RedRock
0x0000000100a90223 -[RKFileNamingPolicy fileRelativePathWithVersionName:originalFileName:extension:date:projectName:fol derName:] + 1427
6   RedRock
0x0000000100a87e2d -[RKImporter performJob:] + 3917
7   CoreFoundation
0x00007fff853e370d -[NSObject performSelector:withObject:] + 61
8   ProXTCore
0x0000000101c7eb98 -[XTSubscription postMessage:] + 104
9   ProXTCore
0x0000000101c7e3d9 -[XTDistributor distributeMessage:] + 505
10 ProXTCore
0x0000000101c7dde3 -[XTThread handleMessage:] + 339
11 ProXTCore
0x0000000101c7ca4c -[XTThread run:] + 380
12 Foundation
0x00007fff89b5772a -[NSThread main] + 68
13 Foundation
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14 libsystem_c.dylib
0x00007fff8a63b8bf _pthread_start + 335
15 libsystem_c.dylib
0x00007fff8a63eb75 thread_start + 13
objc[1458]: garbage collection is OFF
terminate called throwing an exception
abort() called
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7   com.apple.CoreFoundation
0x00007fff853e370d -[NSObject performSelector:withObject:] + 61
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9   com.apple.CoreFoundation
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10 com.apple.proxtcore
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11 com.apple.proxtcore
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12 com.apple.proxtcore
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13 com.apple.proxtcore
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14 com.apple.Foundation
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15 com.apple.CoreFoundation
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16 com.apple.CoreFoundation
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17 com.apple.CoreFoundation
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18 com.apple.CoreFoundation
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19 com.apple.CoreFoundation
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20 com.apple.HIToolbox
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21 com.apple.HIToolbox
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23 com.apple.AppKit
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24 com.apple.AppKit
0x00007fff8430a735 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 135
25 com.apple.Aperture
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26 com.apple.AppKit
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27 com.apple.prokit
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28 com.apple.Aperture
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29 com.apple.Aperture
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Thread 1:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
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Thread 3:
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1   libsystem_c.dylib
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2   com.apple.Foundation
0x00007fff89b86a5c -[NSCondition waitUntilDate:] + 371
3   com.apple.Foundation
0x00007fff89b5022e -[NSConditionLock lockWhenCondition:beforeDate:] + 251
4   com.apple.proxtcore
0x0000000101c7d92a -[XTMsgQueue waitForMessage] + 42
5   com.apple.proxtcore
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6   com.apple.Foundation
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7   com.apple.Foundation
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8   libsystem_c.dylib
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Thread 4:
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4   com.apple.CoreFoundation
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5   com.apple.Foundation
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6   com.apple.proxtcore
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7   com.apple.Foundation
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8   com.apple.Foundation
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9   libsystem_c.dylib
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10 libsystem_c.dylib
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Thread 5:
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1   libsystem_kernel.dylib
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5   com.apple.Foundation
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6   com.apple.proxtcore
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7   com.apple.Foundation
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8   com.apple.Foundation
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9   libsystem_c.dylib
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Thread 6:
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2   com.apple.Foundation
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3   com.apple.Foundation
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4   com.apple.proxtcore
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5   com.apple.proxtcore
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6   com.apple.Foundation
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7   com.apple.Foundation
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1   libsystem_c.dylib
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2   com.apple.Foundation
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4   com.apple.proxtcore
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6   com.apple.Foundation
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8   libsystem_c.dylib
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Thread 8:
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7   com.apple.Foundation
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2   com.apple.Foundation
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6   com.apple.Foundation
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Thread 10:
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1   libsystem_c.dylib
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2   com.apple.Foundation
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3   com.apple.Foundation
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4   com.apple.proxtcore
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5   com.apple.proxtcore
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6   com.apple.Foundation
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6   com.apple.Foundation
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8   libsystem_c.dylib
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Thread 13 Crashed:
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11 com.apple.proxtcore
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12 com.apple.proxtcore
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13 com.apple.Foundation
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15 libsystem_c.dylib
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16 libsystem_c.dylib
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Thread 15:
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Thread 16:
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Thread 18:
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Thread 19:
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Thank you for your reply,
I can confirm that the images are all ok, and I did break the folder up in to smaller bite size segments, with no luck. It only happens when I try to import "folders as projects" as I have since successfully imported some of these folders the long way (folder by folder).
I tried moving some of the folders to my local HDD, with no luck.
I have turned off "scan for faces" too, with no luck. I will now see what hapens when I get rid of the "generation of previews" and see what happens.
The crash happens almost immediately upon starting the import... I will keep you posted.
Many thanks

Aperture 3 Importing Folders as Projects is taking days to complete

Hello,
I acquired Aperture 3 a week ago and decided to give it a try. I've been using Lightroom since version 1. All my photos are in NEF (Nikon RAW) format and stored on an External HD. I used the A3 option FILE > IMPORT > FOLDERS AS PROJECTS command and selected folders from year 2008, 2009, 2010...this are 109 folders (13401 photos) from a total of 348 from year 2003 to date, meaning I am importing a fraction of all photos.
A very important note: I use the import option "Store Files: In their current location"...so that A3 is not moving, copying and so on, any files - it's just referencing them.
The problem starts here - it took Aperture 3 almost 24 hours to complete the "import"...i.e. to fill all the Projects with the corresponding photos. But the IMPORT PROCESS continues forever, today is day 4...the Aperture Library on this has grown to 18 GB and still growing. There is small but constant Hard Disk activity between the External HD with the Photos and the internal HD with the Library.
If I try to quit Aperture I get a message box:
+"Do you want to continue importing? Aperture is currently importing files. If you quit, the import task will be canceled and any files that have not been fully imported will be removed. | Quit | Continue |"+
How much longer shall I wait? Is it really importing or is this a bug? Why is there no progress bar or counter to give an estimate or idea of what is going on?
Just as reference: I imported the same folders (109) into Lightroom 3 Beta with the option "Store Files: In their current location" and it took only 1-2 hours.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Regards,
Kostadin

Kostadin,
I'm noticing same thing today. This morning I imported about 100 Canon 7D RAW images from my memory card, which took about 5 minutes upon which I got the "Delete Images and Eject Card?" dialog. I accepted and removed the card.
4 hours later, I still have a "Importing..." spinning ball on Aperture. For the first couple of hours, I was trying to send emails with a few images and it would take 20 minutes for Aperture to generate the JPEG in the email. Now it only takes 10-15 seconds. BUt it is still "importing". So aperture continues to function, but it has some process going which keeps my CPU fans running on the MacBook Pro.
I am anxious to see just how long it takes to IMPORT... after it finishes importing.
What's it doing for this long?
Jim

Organizing with Folders vs Projects vs Albums vs Stacked Photos

Question - Longtime Apple user, but relatively new to Aperture. Working on organizing a large collection of photographs, and am debating whether to organize by Project and grouping similar Projects into folders, or whether to use Projects as my major subdivisions, and organizing within projects using Albums or Stacks.
I realize that there's probably no right answer, so I'm hoping that anybody reading this note could take a quick minute to share the philosophy they apply to organization, as well as any concrete advantages or drawbacks to Projects, Folders, Albums, or their own method.
Thanks for sharing!
Mark

Projects are, imho, badly misnamed. Aperture was designed with the general plan that one shoot would be one Project. Projects have one salient characteristic (which separates them from other ways of grouping images) -- each Master must be in a Project, and can be in only one Project. Because of the above, you should conceive of Projects as the master (small "m") and enduring holding bin of your shots. I think of them as boxes, or as binders ("binders" implying, somehow, something more long-term than "album").
However you end up organizing your collection in Aperture, the one method I recommend against is using Projects as your major subdivisions. They weren't designed to be used this way, they shouldn't have more than a few hundred Masters in them, and you are likely to outgrow that system of organization.
I stick with "one shoot = one Project". If I have three separate shoots on one card, I import the files in three separate sets, each with the Masters specially re-named, into three separate Projects. I then use folders to organize my Projects. I use Albums for sub-sets of Projects with more than 60 or so images -- I do a lot of my processing by Project, and I find 60 images is about the most I can easily handle at once. I use Albums also for actual projects (small "p") -- e.g.: a series of cards for sale, or work for a client.
All images are keyworded (again, a per-Project task). I use color labels to indicate the level of development of an image. I use stars to indicate the value of an image (rejected, not yet rated, best of stack, worth keeping, among the best in Project, worth publishing, excellent).
Keywords, color labels, ratings, and Project names give me enormous specificity in creating Smart Albums, which I do extensively.
Additionally, I do three things which I think are uncommon.
. I move my Projects according to the status of their development, and
. I separate my intake, storage, and processing areas from my output areas, and
. I never use Folders to organize by date.
I do this because for me Aperture's two overall functions are best treated separately. Those two overall functions are, generally, Intake and Output, or to be more specific, "Import, Develop, and Store" and "Gather for export, Prepare for publication, and Export". The top-level folders in my Library are
. Administration Smart Albums
. Raw (inputs)
. Cold Storage
. To Serve
Admin Smarties includes "5-stars", "Managed Masters older than 45 days", "Masters Missing", "Printed 17x22", "Re-take", and the like.
"Raw" is the top-level of a folder tree which includes "Just Imported", "Described not Stacked", "Stacked not Keyworded", "Keyworded not Picked", and "Picked not filed". I move my Projects into the appropriate folder. Note that this works well in Projects view -- one can drill down to any level of the Library tree and see at a glance which Projects are where.
"Cold Storage" is where I put all fully-processed Projects (and remember, for me "Project" just means "Shoot" -- if you ever used a non-digital camera, same as a box of slides or a sleeve of photos). I organize these as I see fit. I try to put Projects where I think I will look for them. Clients have their own folder(s). Other photographers have their own folders. On the personal side, I have folders for Portraits of friends, Family, Events, Trips, Indoors, Urban outdoors, Rural outdoors, Close-ups, Test shots, etc. Each of these is further subdivided. I have an entire folder sub-branch just for fine art still-lifes.
The last of the top-level folders holds a large sub-set of folders for output. None of these folders have Projects in them (Projects, for me, are +storage containers+, not output containers). I create a folder for each output project (small "p"), and use Albums as needed. In theory, every image that shows in the output side of my Aperture structure should already have been selected ("picked") and optimally developed as an image (the rating and label tell me the status of the image). What is left for me to do is final selection, pre-press, and export.
No where in my Library structure is any accommodation made to date (other than the "one shoot = one Project rule). The is no reason to organize an Aperture Library by date -- date organization is hard-coded into Aperture at both the Project and the Image level. Since it is already hard-coded into Aperture, I prefer to use the Library organization tools to create a storage and output structure which gives me a level of utility on top of date organization.
In general, I keep my Projects view (the Viewer, not the Inspector) grouped by Library folders and sorted by date (most recent first). If I want to view all my shoots (Projects) by date, I simply ungroup them in Project view. If I want to view them by year, I click the "Year" grouping icon. I find Project view, and the built-in grouping options, quite useful.
When I need to view all of my photos in date order I simply use "Photos" view. Note the sophisticated filtering options available using the "Date" and "Calendar" rules. In general, I set Photos view to sort by either "Import Session" or "Date -- Descending". I regularly use List view when in Photos view.
I complete my set-up with specific file-naming and Project-naming conventions. The important thing here is consistency -- set it up right from the get-go, and stick to it rigorously, and you won't have to second-guess your searches or filters.
Hope that helps. It's a lot of overhead -- but I have and take a lot of shots, I work in spurts, and I valued a system which would let me start and stop at nearly any time and always let me know +by structure+ the status of any shot or image or Project or project -- while remaining flexible and expandable.
My example should at least give you some ropes to use as you simultaneously shape and climb your Aperture mountain. I strongly recommend setting up a practice Library using, say, 10% of your images, and using to for a couple of weeks, tweaking it as you go, before "casting it in stone" and importing your entire collection. Aperture is broad and powerful -- take the time to know and understand it, and you will find your use of it immensely rewarding.
Good luck.

Import Folders As Projects Broke?

When I click on import folders as projects nothing happenes. It is as if this feature does not work at all. I have tried to reinstall Aperture but this does not fix the issue. Also, when I import files into aperture I dont get the Destination pop-up menu. Does anyone know what the problem is? Has anyone had this issue before?

Are you saying you don;t even get the first tear window that lets you select the folder or is that once you select and press import nothing happens?
I fit is the first case (not tear screen) then try moving the preference file out to the desktop. See Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics about 2/3 of the way down for instructions for moving the preference file.
If the problem is nothing happens after you press import post back.

Faces didn't inventory all the folders and projects

So I had Faces turned off for many months to improve performance. In the meantime, I imported about 10,000+ images into a variety of folders, etc. I then turned on Faces because I thought it would be fun to play with 70 years of different pictures. Faces seems to have "captured" about half of the new images (all referenced images), but there are entire folders and projects that it didn't get to. And when I click on "Faces" and those folders, it just doesn't find any faces. Does anyone have a clue about how to remedy this? (I've repaired permission and the database, etc.) Thank you.

What happens if you select all the Images in one of the under-cooked Projects and run "Photos→Detect Missing Faces"?
If this helps for a Project, try it on several or all. It may tie up your computer, but it won't damage your Library in any way.
If it does nothing, post back.
Filter using the Rule "Face" set to "is detected" to determine if "Detect Missing Faces" made any difference.
Also confirm that Aperture is done processing by checking the Activity window, and, just for voodoo, restart your computer and Aperture and let it run awake and unmolested overnight.
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger

Unable to import files and folders as project

Recently, my Aperture 3.1.2 didn't allow me to import files stored in an external hard drive, so I put this issue here sometime back and somebody gave me a hint to try to import in a different way i.e. File>Import>Folders As Project and it worked. A couple of weeks later, the above two methods didn't work again. After all I reinstalled Mac OS(downgraded from 10.6.8 to 10.6.4) and reinstalled Aperture version 3.1.1 accordingly. But I still can't import 16bit Tiff image files. (FYI, my SIGMA camera RAW file format X3F is not supported by Aperture 30.). In South Korea, Apple Korea did sell Aperture 3 product to me and provide ZERO service for Aperture 3 users, and they demand to directly contact Apple HQ Aperture support organization via international calls in non-native language. Please help me.

Hello Mr. Caggiano,
Sorry for late reply due to big time difference. Up until yesterday morning, I was running Aperture 3.1.2 on Mac OS 10.6.8(both are the latest versions.) As my Sigma SD15 camera RAW is not currently supported by Aperture 3, I deveop RAW files, adjust images and save them in Tiff 16bit format using Sigma-provided S/W on the EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE. And then I open Aperture 3 and import images from external HD for further image adjustments. This is the way I import files. I click File>Import>Folders As Project, and choose target files among displayed folder system. That is my ordinary workflow. I have had no problems until the following happened.
Yesterday afternoon, I chosed the specific folder to continue the remaining adjustments, but all of the folders including the target folder were all grayed out, and the spinning gear displaying "Loading assests" soon disappeared without showing any image thumbnails. I had no way to click "cancel" button on the buttom of Import Panel. Finally I decided to lower my Mac OS from the latest 10.6.8 to 10.6.4 and also Aperture version from 3.1.2 to 3.1.1. I had to create an another Aperture library to suit 3.1.1 version. And I tested again on the changed environment but the result was the same. Regretfully, going back to old Mac OS have caused Sigma-provided RAW conversion & adjusment S/W to restrict some functionalities such as file conversion and saving. In fact my lowered Mac OS is still higher version than Sigma-published s/w installation requirement. I may have to upgrade Mac OS again to 10.6.7, not the latest because I don't want to be an early adopter of the forth-coming Mac OS Lion. I am very perplexed now.
I tried to describe what happened yesterday as detailed as possible for you to come up with a solution. I look forward to hearing a good news from you.
Thank you. DK

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I had photos from a two-week period that I wanted to import by day with the project having 14 daily folders. I used this import option and it created a new masters folder with the appropriately named (yyyymmdd) subfolders (referenced images). That worked fine. However, the resulting project was a flat one without any folder structure. I overcame this by saving the new masters folder and deleting the project. I then re-imported the structured folder and the resulting project had the desired folder structure.
I am just wondering what I did wrong, as the documentation led me to believe I could accomplish this in one step. No big deal now that it is done, but it took some experimentation,

Hm, I've been struggling with this myself for days now. I have images from several days of shooting on my camera card, and I'd like to import them into different folders, so I don't have 500+ images in one hard to use folder.
Importing them does separate the actual files out into separate subdirectories, in the /year/month/day/ format with one folder for each day. That's great, but the project still has all 500 plus images lumped in one unusable directory. I also found that the only way around it was to delete the automatic project, but leave the files, and then re-import the files from the hard disk. Then they show up separated into folders.
This is ironic, as the whole reason I bought Aperture was because I thought it was going to simplify my workflow. So far it's not working out.
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My first attempt to use the "import folders into a project" command resulted in my accidentally importing my entire "pictures" folder (40,000 images) into aperture as a sub-category of an existing project. I was only trying to do a sample. Now my entire pictures folder and all its sub and sub-sub folders are in my aperture library -- not as projects as I'd like them to be, but as sub-folders and albums.
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Note: Albums and Folders can reference images from many projects. However, albums do not house the Master files or Versions; that is the Project's role. Albums and Folders only reference the images from the project(s).
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Hi everyone
I recently imported a large number of folders from my image disk into aperture using drag and drop. Aperture automatically created a project with the folder name for every imported folder. It also created an album inside each project with the same name. What is the reasoning for the album creation if the imported folder only contained images and no sub folders ? I was under the impression that albums inside of projects are used to store versions of images but when I select one of the albums it displays all the images inside that project. Also is it safe to simply delete these albums and not affect the actuall master files contained inside the project?
Thanks

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it is safe to delete an album as it will not delete the image ...
albums can store versions (a reference - not the actual version), it can store a reference to masters in other projects as well ...

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This really comes down to how a person likes to work, and the level of organization, that makes them most comfortable. There is really no right way/wrong way (within reason), but personal choices.
For the HDD folder layout, this ARTICLE goes into a bit of detail, on how I like to work - however, it is personal to me, and also takes one thing into consideration, that might not be important to you - considering migrating a Project from one computer to computer. I give up some ultimate performance, by keeping things on one HDD. If migration is not a concern, performance can be improved, by placing certain folders onto separate, physical HDD's.
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There is no one way to do either, the HDD folder/sub-folder layout, or one's Bins. Mine is but one way, and works for me - those last two words being very important.
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Hunt

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[482338 - Using Extended Search in ISA B2B, ver. 30|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/482338]
[792556 - Quick search using several attributes|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/792556]
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I have come across a rather anoying problem inside of aperture of which I am not sure weather it is of my own doing or simply a bug inside aperture.
I am in the process of organizing my pictures into projects, folders and albums. Now I have one particular folder that contains three projects. These projects, in turn, contain 30, 29 and 40 pictures respectively. The folder containig the projects however contains 450 pictures, many of which i do not whish to be there.
My question: how can a folder in aperture contain more pictures then all of the projects within it? And how can i delete these pictures from the folder but not from other projects in my library?
Thanks in advance
mkoester

mkoester wrote:
My question: how can a folder in aperture contain more pictures then all of the projects within it?
In addition to clearing all the container filters in order to get complete Image counts for each container, confirm that there are no Images in any regular Albums* in the Folder that are not also in the Projects in the Folder. The total number of Images in a Folder equals the number of Images in Projects in the Folder plus Images which are not in those Projects but are in Albums in the Folder.
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