Import folder structure. Incorrect date on folders.

I'm trying to import a bunch of jpg photos taken in 2006 and 2007 to my Aperture 3 library. I use a referenced library in my pictures folder and I would like the files to be copied to new folders named after the year, month and day they were taken. However, each time I try to import these photos some are placed in a folder named 2001, while some of the files actually end up in folders named after the right year. According to the meta data of the photos they are all taken in 2006 and 2007. I tried re-importing the same photos a couple of times and each time a different number of my photos end up in a folder named 2001. It's very annoying and I would be very grateful if someone could help me solve this issue!
Anton

Hi Anton. A possible work-around. Import as you have been doing, then select all of the imported Images in Aperture and run "File→Relocate Masters ... " using the setting "Subfolder format: Image Year/Month/Day". I have started seeing similar failures to properly file Referenced Masters on import. Re-filing them from within Aperture has put them all in the right Finder folders.
Please report back with what you find out. I have no idea what is causing the problem.

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Import folder structure with MP3's with no tags from record collection

Until now I have maintained data of my music cassettes and vinyls in a filemaker database. All 5000 MP3's are stored in a structure similar like that of iTunes: for example all music of female artist is store like this
females/first letter of artist = "B"/Bassey Shirley/Album Name.
I know that I can import one by one these folders to iTunes and do all the tag-entries manually. But I wonder if there was an easier way ... for example by having iTunes accept a given order structure = at least that with artist name and artist's albums. Yet this does only work if I have added tags prior to moving those folders to iTunes "automatic entry folder".
As an alternative I could use my Filemaker data ... provided someone of you folks has an idea of how to.
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May be I should give an update
My challenge is to transfer the MP3-files from some 800 Vinyl. After first going along with iTunes structure I decided to use the datafields my way. Main reasons: I wanted to keep the structure handy and I wanted to use primarily those fields as keys which can be searched for and structured alphabetically in iPod. You can for example list all interprets by alphabet but not the "work" may be it is English "opus" or "creation". So my structure is like this:
Titlenames = are the full names of the songs without leading short words like "a" "the"
Interpret = Last name first name which allows to skip an entry under "Sorting"
Interpret with only one title are also listed but in those cases I also use the field "Album interpret". Here I enter "other male" "other female" "other group" "other classic"
When you list by interpret in iPod then only the "album interprets" show ... but you can still search for the real name. In other words the album interpret is always used if iTunes finds BOTH fields filled out.
I always use the album-fields since otherwise iTunes makes up a "misc album" So I give each interpret at least one album which then has his name. In case there are several records (like I have some boxes with all records of Mozart or Strauss) I make up on box-album only and use the numbers for CDs and tracks. So record 1 becomes CD 1 of 8. Sound like much work but you can first enter all individual data and than select all MP3-lines of a box and enter the overwriting infos like "Mozart". Same goes for all my single 45RPM vinyls.
As "Genre" I gave up on deciding is it Pop or R&B or HipHop. So I only use the above structure male, female, duet, group, chorus, instrumental, classic
The BMP field is use to show the original numbers of my vinyls as given in my FileMaker Database. Works out fine and I can export it to Excel if needed.
What I also found out is that you can force videos to show up as music. In that case you have to select under options the pulldown "MusicVideo". So you can even start to save your family videos as .264 files import them to iTunes / iPod and have a bette access than by using the direct videoplay function of the iPod.
The Frontcovers of my vinyls I have drag and dropped in form of jpg's. You can even add several picture and you can do this with a selection of severals MP3-files (the pictures of my vinyls were taken with a Nikon 2200 and made smaller via batchrun in GraphicConverter).
There is also another way to reduce clutter: All the less interesting musing has been marked as "compilation" which reduces the number of albums. So all my compilations of this kind start with "aa" (a single "a" would be ignored by iTunes in respect to sorting). Here is an example of my male "garbage collection":
aa male english, aa male French, aa male German,
or in "instrumental:
aa instr flute, aa instr guitar, aa instr piano
I am not saying that this is the best way - should rather give some ideas of how one can use that somewhat stubborn iTunes.
Eventually I will do a "reverse engineering" by exporting the final iTunes database, importing it to FileMaker and recombine the data based on Vinyl- and tracknumber with the old database.

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I have my pictures stored in year/month/day format on my HDD. Is there a way to import into Aperture with folders/projects showing year/month only?
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Hi, everyone!
I am a long time Picasa user, and I really enjoyed the way my imported images simply put themselves into folders in the interface, all named by date automatically. I have been trying out Aperture for some time now, and I just can´t find a good way to mimic this. There is seemingly no way for Aperture to automatically name my projects by date, unless it gets to split up some dumb album/project that I have to name myself.
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My solution at the moment: Import photos using no name in projects, Aperture splits anyway,
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Regards
Léonie

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[URL=http://s556.photobucket.com/user/DaveBaum/media/Screenshot2013-10-11at124017.png.html][IMG]http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss3/DaveBaum/Screenshot2013-10-11at124017.png[/IMG][/URL]
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Thanks for your reply Rob, it gave me an idea.
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Trash the iPhoto Library folder that you created on your Mac, or rename it "iPhoto Library damaged" if you may need some of its contents. Copy the iPhoto Library folder from the backup into your Pictures folder. Hold down the Option key as you launch iPhoto and select "Choose Library" from the dialog. Navigate to the good iPhoto Library folder and open. iPhoto should launch and open your library in exactly the same condition it was in when the backup was made. If all goes well you don't have to import anything.
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Import folder structure. Incorrect date on folders.

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