IPhoto 09 and Aperture

Since I've upgraded to iPhoto 09, I no longer see my Aperture Library in iPhoto. I checked the preferences in Aperture and it shows sharing previews with iLife. How can I get my Aperture photos into iPhoto?

I've done that and nothing is viewable in iPhoto. Shouldn't there be a menu choice under File that allows you to Show Aperture Library? There's no menu option for that.

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    Message was edited by: macorin

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    That will not be an easy task, Christie.
    I am afraid, your cleaning session with Gemini may have actually removed originals. I have never used this duplicate finder tool, but other posters here reported problems. Gemini seems to replace duplicate original files in photo libraries by links, and this way, deleting images can cause the references for other images to break. And Aperture does not follow symbolic links - at least, I could never get it to find original files this way, when I experimented with this.
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    and not all the original pictures can be found by the libraries anymore, though some originals still do exist in other libraries.  Steps/process to fix?
    That is probably due to Gemini's replacing duplicate originals by links, and your best cause of action is to fix this before merging the libraries. Reconnecting can be done for your iPhoto libraries in Aperture.

  • I am unable to change location for editing photos.  I tried the advanced drop down menu in iPhoto and have 2 locations for editing-iphoto and aperture.  I want to add photoshop.  Can anyone help? Thanks.

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    Not sure why you would have Aperture there as it's not an editor.
    To change, just select Aperture again, and this will give you the dialogue to change the choice.
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    TD

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  • Import both libs, iphoto and aperture library

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  • Is it possible to keep both iPhoto and Aperture on the same Mac

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    I think you may have answered a question I have with the above, but to be sure here is what I would like to do. I currently have iPhoto09 with about 50,000 pictures in it, which seems too much for it to manage. I would like to use Aperture, which I understand is better for managing a large number of photos, but still have iPhoto available to make slide shows, etc. for our AppleTV. Would the process you described above work for that?
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  • Using both iPhoto and Aperture workflow help

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    2) will changes ( like GPS location) in aperture be applied to iPhoto images
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    So, specifically, what interaction there is between the two is designed to facilitate migration from iPhoto to the more powerful app. After that, iPhoto has exactly the same relationship to the Aperture Library as, say, Pages or iMovie.
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