How many photos Aperture thinks it has

Question

When I start Aperture it tells me briefly that I have some 19000 images. However my sense and the
data from my digital cameras suggest its closer to about 12000. This sort of ratio has been this way
for some time now. I have discussed this with the Aperture one to one guys who are stumped.
Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

Here are a couple of ideas:
1)Images edited with an external editor are actually new masters and counted as another image.
2)Maybe you rejected some images and never deleted them, they are just hidden from view.
3)You accidentally copied some image masters - possible.
4)You imported some images twice at some point like when you were starting to use Aperture.
5)You had image edits performed in iPhoto and then imported your iPhoto library - editing an image in iPhoto actually creates a new JPG file that counts as a separate master when you import the library.
To see if this is an actual problem and not just an academic exercise you may want to try doing some real accounting of images you put into it over the next few weeks and see if for some reason your accounting does not add up from where you started.
RB
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