Frustrated with file structure

Back in the day, Aperture would create an "Aperture Library" file and throw all of my photos into the library. Well that was horrible. It made iPhoto look brilliant, because you could simply organize your photos in folders by date. However iPhoto would create proxies (small files for thumbnails) and throw a ton of additional little files into directories and gummed up the whole works.
So Aperture 1.5 appeared to have solved all this, going to a more logical date/file structure format. But I was looking through my hard drive, trying to dump all of my photos off to an external drive for space savings and I'm noticing there are still Aperture library files.
I'm not certain what I'm looking at. Some of my photos appear in directories on the hard drive. Others seem to be jammed into the Aperture library folder. Where do the files really exist, and if I have multiple library files on other drives, how can I get everything synced up?
I like the interface on Aperture, but the file structure seems really illogical. Is there a better management tool anyone would care to recommend?

You're not really supposed to poke around the Aperture file structure - leave it to Aperture to manage. this is especially true if you're not familiar with how it works.
The files in folders on your hard drive are referenced masters; the files in the Aperture Library are either Managed Masters or Versions (note: versions do not exist as actual image files).
Having Aperture manage your photos is so fundamental to Aperture's raison-d'etre, that if you don't like it, you should use something else (which I guess is what you're looking for recommendations for).
As an aside, there is a good reason for having Aperture manage your files - there is a potentially complicated relationship between masters and versions, the albums and slide shows etc that they appear in, that it takes a database to keep track of all of this. If you start moving bits around without telling the DBM (and I'm not saying that you are), don't complain if things break.
You'll find the same approach in large IT companies, managing large volumes of source code - on no account can you update code outside of the source management application. If you do, other bits of related source code may not be re-compiled etc when they should be and your production system comes crashing down.
Regards,
Steve

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Mark

i'm not sure exactly what you mean?
Can I not post images in the forum? If I could I would show the difference, but I will try and explain.
In both Leopard and Tiger I see the three options for view. I use column view on each. In Tiger I can see the column of the folder I last opened and next to it is a column that the last folder is in along with all the other folders in that column and so on all the way back to the root hard drive with a scroll left and right to move.
In Leopard, it only shows a column for the last folder and next to it there is only the side bar with the Devices (root hard drives), Shared, Places and so on. I can always start over and if I am five folders over I will need to click five times to get to the location or three depending where I want to go. I can also click the drop down menu and go to the third folder back but can't see what's in it until I click it.
My setup in like this basically: Macintosh HD/business/customers (40 + folders)/dates (dates on design work in each customer folder)/revisions (edits of the designs)
So if I have worked on a file in Macintosh HD/business/customers (aaa)/dates (2/11/09)/revisions (edit3.ai) and want to open file in folder customer (fff), I do not see a column with customers listed where I can just look three columns back and click on customer (fff) to open that folder. In Tiger I can see all folders under each column..../business/customers/dates and so on.
I know it's not that big a deal, but I liked it better the old way. Can I still have this option?

VERY frustrated with file names!

I've read many posts that have explained why we can't use spaces in the file names but none have really explained how to get around it. I'm creating a small web site with about 4 separate photo pages. It will be published to a non-mac server. I've tried evrything I can think of to change these file names but they keep coming back.
Dragging them from the media browser brings in the filename (with spaces).
I made a duplicate of each photow within iPhoto and renamed with no spaces but once imported to iWeb the original titles came back
I've exported entire folders and given new names to all photos during the process and they came back again also
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Some revert to original file name (DCS0001523.jpg)
I'm really fed up. Any help?

And remember to also delete the original photo
that
is sitting in your Library, because it somehow
keeps
the offending titles.
I wouldn't recommend deleting the original photos in
your iPhoto Library. I always recommend making
duplicates of the photos you will be using and then
applying any processing to those duplicates. What I
usually recommend is that you gather up all the
photos you will use into a temporary album, then
export them (and thereby duplicating them) all at
once to a folder on the desktop where you can access
them for more processing before you drop them into
iWeb.
I don't like to disturb my "originals" as you can
tell. Always making copies!
We think somewhat alike but I am not as careful as you. I always make a duplicate before I work on a photo. Frequently I delete the one that got improved upon because the Original is sitting in the Library anyhow.
But I messed up with my website pictures. In iPhoto I had a bunch of folders for categories, so I made more folders and called them WEBChris Professional, WEBChris and Lorna, WEBCheyenne, etc.
The problem is that somewhere along the line I ended up with TWO WEBLornas. God knows how, but maybe one was a copy. I should have nipped it in the bud when I noticed it, but I was busy working on iWeb and let it get worse and worse (because I kept putting pictures away into folders and I was never sure which Lorna folder a picture would go into. Oh, maybe one was a young Lorna the other an old Lorna, but at this point they are mixed young and old. Bummer.
— Lorna in Southern California

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Prior to Leopard, file sharing was SO easy it was one of the greatest features of owning a Mac at my Windows centric office. Now after installing Leopard, MONTHS of reading online forums and the discussions here has gotten me nowhere. The only success I've has has been with FTP.
Can someone PLEASE help me or direct me to the proper tutorial of how to share files on my MacBook Pro with Windows machines? [I don't believe I just begged for help with my Mac!]
What I have accomplished so far is enable sharing in the Sharing Pref Pane and I turned on SMB as everyone has suggested. My Windows machine can see my user folder and all the folders within it but I can not open any of those folders. If I change the access for Everyone to Read & Write then I can do what I'm trying to achieve. Obviously I don't want everyone on my network to have access.
It would seem to me that I'm looking for a simple dialog window on the Windows machine to enter my user name and password but I don't see that. I can not find anyway to "LOG" in to the MacBook Pro.
Why is it that I'm reading all this praise for Leopards new and improved file sharing features yet it seems like they've broken what had worked in the past?
Now that I think about it, I think I was running SharePoint before so that was probably why I never had any issues before. That program unfortunately no longer works in Leopard.

I'm a little confused now. I did as you suggested bulldog and created an account in the Sharing Pane with the same user name and password that I use on my Windows machine and gave it Read & Write Access.
When I went to my Windows computer and attempted to navigate from Network Places to Workgroup, Workgroup was not there. I tried to reset my network connection and refresh the window but could never get Workgroup to come up.
I then tried one of my previously mapped shares ("user" on Anthony's MBP) and got an error.
I figured maybe that mapped share's IP got screwed up or something so I went to RUN and typed in my IP address of the Mac. 192.168.1.2/homefolder This actually prompted me for a user name and password! I entered the UN/PW that I had just created, the same one that I use to log in to my Windows machine, and got nothing. It tried to put PCNAME/ before my user name.
Then I tried my UN/PW that I use on my Mac and that FINALLY worked. The confusing part is I KNOW that I've tried this many times before - it's always the FIRST thing that I try. I liked your idea Bulldog and thought that for sure it should work and I like how it limited access to certain folders for that user name.
To add further to the confusion, I thought I'd give everything a second chance before I submit this post. I disconnected from the shared folder on my Windows computer to try and start over. It seems that now Workgroup is showing up. When I double click on that I see my Mac. When I double click on that I get a prompt for a user name and password. I tried both my Mac and Windows usernames and now NEITHER are working.
I turn off File sharing to try to reset it on the Mac side and turn it back on. Workgroup is still present in Windows but when I double click it, it now stalled for 30 seconds and gives me a network path not found error. I repair my network connection in Windows, Workgroup goes away.
I try RUN IP address again and it says that 192.168.1.2/homefolder is not available. I double check and verify that File Sharing is turned on and Read & Write is on for both Mac and Windows user names.
I restart the Windows computer (incidentally a Macbook)
No change
I, again, turn OFF File Sharing - Turn it back on. Now I realize that when you restart file sharing you have to go back to Options and turn on SMB! Doh!
Still no Workgroup but when I enter the IP address I get a prompt. I want to see if Workgroup shows up first though.
I can't get Workgroup to show no matter what I do. I go back to enter my Mac's IP address/homefolder and try the Windows UN/PW and that still does not work. Only entering my Mac's UN/PW works at this point.
For the moment, this will do for me. But it's still not correct from what I can tell. NOR IS IT EASY! Especially considering that what I have found to successfully work today is EXACTLY what I have ALWAYS used to access my Mac computers from a Windows computer.
NOW that I'm connected (?), Workgroup shows up! I double clicked on it and it again prompted me for a username and password. I entered the same one that I used in the last step (Mac UN) and it successfully revealed all the mounted volumes on the Mac.
This is still not solved because I can only get one username to connect remotely to my Mac. Thanks for the help though!

Weird problem with file structure

Hi,
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I've noticed that if I copy a project folder, then open the copied song and record audio, the audio is directed to the original project's audio folder. That surprised me, but I guess it's not the same as what you're saying. You're saying that all the changes are written/reflected in both folders huh? Pretty trippy.

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All Experts,
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When you said:
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Here's some info to help you setup Photoshop for use with iPhoto:
Using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
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3 - however, if you get the navigation window
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NOTE: With Photoshop Elements the Saving File preferences should be configured as shown:
I also suggest the Maximize PSD File Compatabilty be set to Always. In PSE’s General preference pane set the Color Picker to Apple as shown:
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Hi Experts ,
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1029382,28.02.2011,0782191829,049829329,Y,3,0
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Body
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Arnab.

Hi,
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MT_
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I have a scenario which is File to IDOC
and file structure is in this way
Header:
HDR|ROSS-Daily-Inv|20111104
Data :
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Hi,
In Sender CC, use content conversion and especially these options:
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¤ Namea.keyFieldValue, to distinguish your different structures (records).
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Data1.fieldName = MyKey , xxxxx, yyyy
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Otherwise, in SDN with term "recordset" you will find some blogs...
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I've become increasingly frustrated with the ipad adobe app. I've subscribed to be able to convert my pdf files into word documents and it has yet to work I've paid for a service that does not work which in turn makes me a disgruntled customer to say the least very disappointed with such horrible service

Which service did you subscribe to? Adobe PDF Pack?
Once I know the service that you subscribed to, I can move this post to the right forum so that you can get in touch with the folks who can assist you.

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txt file and fixed length.
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100WELCOME 0430000960603201321
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Table2
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Destination
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CreationDate
CretionTime
Spaces
Table2
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BankOrginNo
ReferenceCode
ServiceCode
RecordLength
CharactersPerBlock
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CompressionSpaces
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in the adopter monitoring it show it pics the file from Legacy(file adopter display green), where as SXMB_MONI it is not showing any thing.
can any body help on this do I need to maintain any other parameters for file content conversion.
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M

HI,
I can see that.
The number of characters in the file for TABLE2 is lesser then the number of field size given.
for eg. if the table2 fixed field length sum is 20 ,your file contains only 10 characters. Please give complete data for table2
Test file
100WELCOME 0430000960603201321
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Table2.fieldFixedLengths: 1,10,10,10,3,3,4,1,38
Ragards
vijaya
Message was edited by: vijaya kumari

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3D105122210514/014142N 63410073011001051222103300070000,9895830047,4272700108
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3D105122205447/014142N 63401080012001051222123800061000,7442170047,3867100112
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3D105122224171/014143N 191601070011001051222124300081000,6140330047,7543800108
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How to use File Adapter with hierarchial Structure?

Hi,
How to use File Adapter with hierarchial Structure like..
Data:
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Data
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check the link for the needed configuration paramters.
If the structure is more complexed you can use the Contetnt master(CM) from itemfield which allows to ceate XML file from complex flat files and more.
<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/0d/5ab43b274a960de10000000a114084/frameset.htm">File sender adapter</a>
If you have any question i'll be more than happy to assist.
Nimrod Gisis

Frustrated with file structure

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