Importing,photos,from,a,scanner.,,when,I,import,from,my,epson,exp-860,scanner,and,go,to,de velop,in,lightproof,,only,photos,imported,as,JPEG,have,a,active,,WEB,adjustment.,,tiff,and ,JPEG,have,a,grayed,out,WEB,Adjustment. Is this normal?

Question

Importing,photos,from,a,scanner.,,when,I,import,from,my,epson,exp-860,scanner,and,go,to,de velop,in,lightproof,,only,photos,imported,as,JPEG,have,a,active,,WEB,adjustment.,,tiff,and ,JPEG,have,a,grayed,out,WEB,Adjustment.  Is this normal?

Answer 1

William Lloyd wrote:
Yeah you shouldn't use ~ in general. That is a shortcut for "Your home directory."
This is not strictly true. ~ is a "meta-character" in Unix shells -- it is an instruction to the shell to substitute the path to a home directory. It only has meaning in a Unix shell command, and only if ~ is the first character in a file path name. Outside of a Unix shell ~ has no special significance (although other programs might adopt a similar convention).
I don't see any reason why Aperture would be doing tilde expansion, and if it is, it is doing it wrong. "March~May Asia Trip" is a perfectly legitimate name in both Mac OS and in Unix. There is nothing taboo about using ~ in a file name. This behavior (which I can confirm) is almost certainly an Aperture bug.