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I have an Aperture library captured with a non-GPS camera. I added geotagging data through Aperture, but am now migrating to Lightroom. Obviously I want to import my masters into Lightroom without losing geotagging/GPS information, but it's also obvious that Aperture will not write EXIF data to masters (other than time/date, and it doesn't seem to be doing that right, either).
I have installed the Maperture plugin, and while Maperture can see my Aperture-made geotags, it will only write GPS data to masters if you change the Aperture data: simply clicking the "save" button without altering the geotag results in no action.
I also have the trial version of HoudahGeo installed. This won't seem to do the job, either, as it only recognizes about 70% of my pictures. For example, if I select an Aperture project with 17,000 images (all geotagged), it only recognizes the library as containing 11,000 images. Even worse, it only recognizes about 1,000 of those images as containing GPS data.
Are there any other options for writing this GPS data to my masters? Thanks for your assistance.

Thanks for the suggestion, Karen.
My library has been rebuilt recently, so I don't think it's a library issue. It affects all project, and it's not a matter of it simply not recognizing alternate versions or stacks. It just simply is recognizing about 30-40% of the pictures in any given library.
On other issue I'm having with Aperture is that it isn't handling date and time adjustments very well: in addition to adjusting the time/date in the way requested, it also shifts the time zone to my current time zone, EST. For example, I might have an image from China with the EXIF time of 7:30pm, UTC+8. I use "Adjust Time and Date" to set the time to 8:00pm. The end result is an image with the time of 8:00am, UTC-4 (EST). While the adjustment has offset the time by the correct amount, it has also changed the time zone for some reason. I understand that a simply workaround would simply be to use the time zone adjustment to achieve the same effect, but it's not always possible and shouldn't be necessary. I very much doubt this has anything to do with he HoudahGeo issue, though.

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Hi there
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When I imported the files, I ensured the import was "file system" and so hopefully Aperture doesnt save it into it's own library.
Unfortuantely, when I try and view the EVIF GPS data in Photoshop for these files, the GPS value is empty. If I manually export the file, the data is there, but somehow the files are smaller in file size (even though I chose JPEG Original Size).
Is there a way for me to make GPS changes in Aperture and for it to be automatically saved to the actual file instead of me going through the process of exporting it?
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If I manually export the file, the data is there, but somehow the files are smaller in file size (even though I chose JPEG Original Size).
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Léonie

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