Import and organize by dated folders

I have a Nikon D90 and a Canon sd750. What i would like to be able to do is use some program to download the photos into folders based on date automatically so that pics taken on same day by both camera will end up in same folder (eg Photos/2008-11-05/). Then i would like to have Aperture reference these folders with each date being a new album.
I used to use Picasa which did this well but now i cant seem to make Aperture work this way without a lot of manually setting up folders.
I often wait 2-3 weeks between imports and end up taking 15-20 pics every few days and need to use the date as the way i find my pics instead of separating into projects. They are usually random family pics and not projects like "nature" or "vacation". I know when an event occurred like birthdays and can easily use the date to find these.
Any help and/or suggestions on what combo of software that I could use to accomplish this would be appreciated.

See my post of October 24. Assuming you are using referenced masters that you will copy into the structured folders, chose import > import folders into project. Then under subfolders chose edit. Then build the proper folder name, e.g., yearmonthday. Ultimately you will get a project with daily folders within it.
As noted, this works but took two steps. Perhaps if I used albums under the project it would be easier. And, you need to be careful to not delete your masters when redoing the project. I have not researched this further. Please post a better way if you find it.
I suggest experimenting with a few copied masters.

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Hi,
I've got a mixed Mac/XP setup, and would like to make all photos available to all users. I'll be implementing iPhoto on the Macs, obviously.
Currently, I've got all my photos organized by directory in a YEAR/MONTH/DAY/CAMERA hierarchy. This makes it fairly easy to browse with nothing more than Finder/XP Explorer.
I'm thinking I'll keep this format, and just have iPhoto reference these files in their current locations, since the iPhoto organization is less intuitive for those that can't use iPhoto (those being the XP users on my network).
Is there an easy way to download photos into this hierarchy, then launch iPhoto, and tell it to add these newly downloaded files to the library, referenced in their current location? Perhaps an ImageCapture/Automator type workflow?
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welcher:
To keep your file system the way you want and have auto import of your files you'd need an application like iView MediaPro. I have auto update capability for adding files/folders to it's system, called a catalog. I use it as my primary image management application and iPhoto for creating books, calendars, cards, etc. iVMP allows you to annotate the files and write those annotations back to the file itself. It also lets you rename the actual file names, either individually or in batches. I use it to rename each file with it's EXIF Capture Date in the format YYYY-MM-DD-description-001.jpg, -002, jpg, etc. That gives me excellent chronological sorting and searching capabilities in any application. iVMP also lets you create hierarchical Catalog Sets for advanced organization.
The alias based system that you're considering will keep your "source" files in the same structure as you'd like but, as Terence pointed out, you have to add the new files manually. I you could add a folder action to each of your source file folders to automatically import into iPhoto any new file added to that folder. However, that file(s) would come into iPhoto in it's/their own roll. Another caveat of the alias based system is that if you delete a photo from iPhoto you have to delete it manually from your source files. AND you can't move or rename the source files once they've been imported into iPhoto.
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Do you Twango?
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.. if I want to upload my video to an external hard drive only once, where is the best place for it? In iM09, or iDive, or somewhere else?
none.
iMHD6 is, as said, 'project centric' - it has to import all needed clips into its project-file; it does NOT allow 'links' as better tools as FinalCutExpress do use (= the clip in the project is just a link o its real, physical location...).
iM09 has by concept a Library, but those 'interlace/skip field problem'; the workarounds known-so-far, as described on my site, or the commercially sold advice to manipulate the moov-atoms (no, no cow-thingie, some.. engineer voodoo) of each mov are - imho - not 'Mac like'; to 'manually' add inbetween-steps is not my understanding of a consumer tool.
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c) purchase $$$ and teach yourself FCE - it allows Library AND perfect handling of interlaced material ..
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Erlangen? sounds like rocket-science.. kiddin'!
you're very welcome .. !

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