Imported iPhoto library- EVERY photo was assigned EVERY keyword?

I just imported my iPhoto library to Aperture 3. Every photo I've every taken was assigned every possible keyword by Aperture, even my very recent photos that I've never renamed, edited, or modified in any way. So now every photo has the "keyword" icon. Is this a bug? Thanks!

Hi Sharon,
There is a way to make a change to the date of all pictures. Select all the pictures that need adjustment, then go to the "Metadata | Adjust Date and Time" function. Aperture will show the time of the first picture, and you can set that time to something else. Aperture determines the delta from current to new timestamp, and applies that same delta to all of the other pictures.
You are also probably wondering how that happened in the first place. I don't know for sure, but try to import some more pictures, and in the upper right "Import Settings", select "Time Zone" See if the time zones match CST.
nathan

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Galdaplh,
What do you mean by "reverting to photo"? "Revert" is not a function in Aperture so you must be talking about something else.
If you just performed the import of that many photos, Aperture will take some time to generate thumbnails. You can see if it is doing this sort of thing by {Command}-{Shift}-0 to show the Activity window.
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I updated Yosemite today which installed the new Photos app. It did not automatically import my iPhoto library. I was able to sign on to Photo Sharing, so those photos did import into my new Photos library.
My problem is that my iPhoto library is in my "shared" home folder, rather than my individual home folder. In order to open the "Shared" Pictures folder, you need to right click and choose "Show Package Contents" to see any of the files inside. When I do that via Finder, I see a Library file, but it was last updated in 2011. I assume that is not the file I need. But there are no other library files within that folder. I even tried to use "Open with..." and chose Photos for it, but nothing was imported. When I try to click the "Pictures" folder via Photos open library functions (when you open Photos, pressing the Option button), it is shaded out and unable to open.
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You do not want to import the Masters folder from your iPhoto library into Photos. You will lose all of your edits, keywords, etc.
Instead move the iPhoto Library to your Pictures folder and make sure it's running correctly before trying a conversion. Run the First Aid procedures if need be.
Once you've confirmed it's running OK launch Photos with the Option key held down, click on the Other Library button, navigate to the Pictures folder and select the iPhoto Library to convert.
If you think you may want to continue to use iPhoto until you're comfortable with Photos make a copy of the iPhoto Library before converting.

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I imported photos from iPhoto library to Photo library instead of relinking the library and now approx. 9,000 photos are missing. How do I fix this?

Trash your Photos library and do it again (Hold down the option key while launching Photos and select your iPhoto library to open)
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Hi,
I am sure others had a similar problem, so pls direct to the right thread/post:
After Mountain Lion -> Yosemites upgrade I had to import the iPhoto library into Photos.
As the process ended I only found very few old albums/events but 90% of the library was missing. How do i get the whole library to Photos?
I had iPhoto 8.1.2 before
Thanks in advance!

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I'm using a 27" iMac (Late 2012, 3.4GHz Intel Core i7, 32GB 1600 MHz DDR3 CL9 RAM, nVidia GeForce GTX 680MX 2048MB video card) with 3TB Fusion drive.
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Hello this is the step that i follow to import the iPhoto library in Aperture
1- File>Import>iPhoto Library
2- Store Files in the apeture library
3- Import
When the importing process is finished from the image folder in Finder I can see that my iphoto library is 30gb but the Aperture library is 15gb (even if the aperure window when I import the iphoto library say that aperutre will import 30gb)
So I go in aperture and try to consolidate files but aperture say
The selection doesn’t have any referenced files
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My master folder in iphoto is 25gb in aperture is 13
So either quite a few masters have not been imported, or the masters have been imported with the wrong resolutzin, or your iPhoto "Masters" folder contains additional files - duplicate versions, or raw files.
@TD, any more suggestions?
So, please, look into the "Masters" folder in iPhoto and Aperture - navigate down the folder structure , until you finally find the actual images. Compare the sizes of the master image files, and look in the iPhoto library if there are duplicates.
If the sizes of the master files in iPhoto are larger than in Aperture, then something went wrong.
If on the other hand, there are duplicates in iPhoto that are not there in Aperture, then never mind.
You confirmed that the numbers of images are correct. When you compared the numbers of images in iPhoto and Aperture, did you make sure that iPhoto was set to show "Hidden Photos"? (in the main menu bar: "View -> Hidden Photos" should be checked)
Ps. How do I get bigger icon in left side if finder?
When you have a Finder Window selected, you can customize the View by pressing Command(⌘)-J, short for "View -> Show View Options". In the pop-up window set the Text Size to a higher value.
That will increase the size of the icons as well.

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I have imported my iPhoto library into Aperture 3. The import must have failed because only some made it over. I chose to leave the photos in their current location. How can I do a fresh import and get the rest of the files imported (still leaving them in their current location) and not get duplicates of those already imported?

I understand what you want to say - I think - our disagreement is whether what you are complaining about is a bug or a feature, and if a feature, if it is good design or broken design .
I am not looking for Aperture to detect and reject similar files, but bit-identical images imported on separate occasions.
But when are two files identical image versions? Most users would expect two copies of the same images in two different locations on the disk to be treated as duplicates - you obviously do. And as you say, it could easily be checked, if two bitmaps are identical. The problem is conceptually:
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I sometimes have images that are similar in all pixels but not duplicates of the same images. Those are images created by animation software visualizing data, and I would not want two similar images with identical bitmaps but belonging to different experiments to be treated as identical images.
Are identical twins the same person - everyting the same, only name and location differ?
Furthermore, sharing master files should not be a big problem since master files are just that: masters.
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Try it: import from iPhoto, and then import again. Even with duplicate detection, you get images twice.
True
Lets talk about the different ways to import to iPhoto.
When you drag from the iPhoto Browser there is no way to turn on "Do not import duplicates", so no promises made and no promises broken - no bug, but maybe a bad feature.
When you import an iPhoto Library, there is the checkbox "Do not import duplicates", and this is ignored - you are perfectly right . But we still disagree - I consider the presence of the checkbox to be the bug - a bug in the GUI, not the import of the duplicates - for what do you expect to happen, when you import a library? It does not make any sense at all to import a library structure and omit some images, only because they are alredy present in the library you are importing to. Aperture would have to merge the newly imported iPhoto library with your current library, but for that we would need a "Merge Library" option, not an import option. This would have a big impact on your existing library structure, but might be useful, so make a feature request to Apple.... (Aperture menu -> Send feedback)
Just try dragging a file in twice. No warning, no message, no annotation.
Again, this is a feature (maybe a bad one), but not a bug, since no promises are made that you will be prevented from dragging in duplicate images.
Make a feature request ...
This is not hard to accomplish, and it is done by other software.
I like not to be bothered with warning messages when I am dragging carefully selected images to Aperture that I want to import, then I want those images together in one project, independent of potential duplicates, and I do not want to be bothered with warning messages while I am dragging ...
Cheers
Léonie

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Or use Aperture's built-in and suggested way to deal with the problem of a Library outgrowing your system drive: make many of your Image's Originals referenced rather than managed.
Aperture lets you store any Image's Original on any locally-mounted drive. Moving your Image's Originals from inside your Library (in which case they are "managed") to outside the Library (in which case they are "referenced") is easy -- as it moving them back.
The two main complications that arise from using Referenced Originals are:
- you must back up your Referenced Originals in addition to backing up your Library. Backing up your Library _does not_ back up your Referenced Originals
- you must not make any changes to your Referenced Originals with any program other than Aperture. _Do not_ use Finder to move, rename, etc.

I just upgraded to Photos and now I can't open my iPhoto Library in Photos OR iPhoto. How do I get my photos back?!?

I recently updated to the new Photos and when I went to import my library into Photos, it wouldn't let me. Kept throwing errors. I followed the suggested fixes using the terminal regarding permissions, but that didn't work. I decided to just go back to using iPhoto, but when I opened that it wouldn't see my library either. I tried copying it to an external hard drive and opening that, but it didn't work. I can browse for it and see it on my computer but it's grayed out and I'm unable to select it. Please help. I'm terrified I lost all those photos.

Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
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Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
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TD

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I have tried searching the Aperture discussions for a solution, and have only found one useful topic from July 2006:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303438
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Hey Suydam.
I am having the EXACT same issues and it is driving me insane.
I have been searching and searching for an answer and nothing.
there is this thread here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4311146&#4311146
where the person found a solution but it just seems rather tedious to do.
I am hoping I can find an answer.
I see you posted this back in Feb. Was wondering if you found a solution.
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Helene,
Both of those things you pointed out are mere *metadata*.
When you imported your iPhoto library, since you did a copy, your libraries are completely independent.
When I was in your situation, I moved my iPhoto library to an external disk and then went to the Aperture library to see how it behaved, even though i was 99.99% sure my iPhoto and Aperture libraries were separate.
nathan

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I Just converted my iPhoto library to Photos. Now I can't find my RAW files. I need to have all the images in my old library show up in their RAW format.

Unfortunately no - Photos use extensions and the vendor (adobe) will have to implement the extension to allow external edits in PS or PSE
For now you must export the photo, edit and then import - not great but a work arond
And you can continue to use iPhoto until Photos meets your needs - launch it in your applications folder - if you need assistance on this see Why won't my iPhotos open?
LN

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Jens,
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It is not necessary to reinstall Aperture, if you want to start over with a new Aperture library. The Aperture Application and the Aperture libraries are completely independent. You can simply trash the current Aperture library (by default it is in your "Pictures" folder and called Aperture Library.aplibrary). Only make sure, that your original iPhoto Library still contains all your photos. When you imported to an earlier version of Aperture, you may have moved your originals from iPhoto to Aperture. That is why I am concerned about your Aperture version.
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