Moving photos

I imported a number of photos in to a new project. I have created folders within the project but can't move the photos in to them. Can anyone advise me on how to do this. In iPhoto it's simple. In Aperture 2.0 it appears to be impossible.

btw ... i should clarify why ...
doing it your way is totally feasible, but the sub folders under your projects would have to have an album (of some sort) in it for the images to "reside" in ...
the way i do it, it breaks the whole shebang into what i feel are more manageable projects (smaller sized if you will) ... ease of export or archive or whatever ...
this even works for weddings ... folder for year, month, client ... i have stopped at client for the project or have used a folder, then a sep. project for engagement shoot, rehearsal, pre-wedding, ceremony, and reception (others too if needed) ...
as you can see the options to library structure are nearly endless ...
the choice is yours on how far down the rabbit hole you go ...
i hope this makes sense to you ...

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Moving photos from one iPhoto library to another

Is there a way to move photos from one iPhoto library to another? I tried to use export, and that puts the photos in the other iPhoto library (I can see the photo if I open Hard drive>user>pictures>iPhoto Library but when I open iPhoto it is not in that Library's library.
If I have not made myself clear, please ask and I'll try again.
Dave

sudkcore
Is there really no other way than via third party software??
Yes there is, detailed above: export from one, import to another.
I love using iPhoto but this is a real drawback.
Wow, really?
I have bought an external disk so i can free the space on my laptop by moving photos and now I have to buy some software in order to do that??
You don't have to buy it. What's more the free version of iPhoto Library Manager will move up to 20 pics at a time. And the paid version is only $20.
BTW: you can run an entire library from the external disk:
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library Folder as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Regards
TD

How do I free up space on my C drive by moving photos to a separate hard drive on the same pc?

I need to free up space on my C Drive by moving photos to Seagate expansion (H) drive. Currently use Windows Vista and elements 11 where I have organiser containing folders and albums which I want to keep intact after the move. Photos are currently held in C:users, valued customer, pictures. I’m pretty ignorant on how to do this but have tried to read and follow the FAQs and previous advice and think I have some understanding(!) I have made a catalog back up onto a separate Seagate expansion drive (F) and although the files appear to have been renamed as ‘B0000001’ for example, I believe this is normal and I can also see a backup.tly and a catalog.buc file so I’m assuming the backup was successful. I think I need to take the following steps;
1. drag and drop the folders containing my photos from the C drive into the (H) drive. (Does this have to be completed one folder at a time or can they all be highlighted and dragged and dropped in the same action)?
2. As I’m not changing computer then I’m assuming I don’t need to restore the catalog?
3. At this point I won’t have deleted anything off the C drive so how do I ensure the catalog establishes links with the photos that are now on the (H) drive if they’re still on the C drive?
4. Once I know the photos are safely on the (H) drive and all links to the catalog have been established I’ll take a new backup of the catalog onto the separate Seagate expansion drive (F)
5. Do I need to take a separate backup of the photos which are now on the (H) drive?
6. I’ll then delete the photos on the C drive.
7. In future any new photos I take and import into Element 11 organiser, I’ll save on the (H) drive.
Have I got the steps right? Any help would be appreciated as I don’t want to lose anything.
Thanks.

It's much simpler:
Dekka1 a écrit:
I need to free up space on my C Drive by moving photos to Seagate expansion (H) drive. Currently use Windows Vista and elements 11 where I have organiser containing folders and albums which I want to keep intact after the move. Photos are currently held in C:users, valued customer, pictures. I’m pretty ignorant on how to do this but have tried to read and follow the FAQs and previous advice and think I have some understanding(!) I have made a catalog back up onto a separate Seagate expansion drive (F) and although the files appear to have been renamed as ‘B0000001’ for example, I believe this is normal and I can also see a backup.tly and a catalog.buc file so I’m assuming the backup was successful.
Yes, the renaming is normal and the fact you can see a backup.tly file is good. However, even if you are 99% sure that the backup is ok, the only way to be 100% sure would be to restore somewhere else... (being somewhat paranoid!)
I think I need to take the following steps;
1. drag and drop the folders containing my photos from the C drive into the (H) drive. (Does this have to be completed one folder at a time or can they all be highlighted and dragged and dropped in the same action)?
Dragging a master folder also drags its subfolders, no problem.
2. As I’m not changing computer then I’m assuming I don’t need to restore the catalog?
No, no need to do that. When you move (by drag and drop or the move menu) the organizer automatically updates the catalog.
3. At this point I won’t have deleted anything off the C drive so how do I ensure the catalog establishes links with the photos that are now on the (H) drive if they’re still on the C drive?
The drag and drop procedure really moves, that is to say : copies the files to the new location AND deletes the files in the old location. Note that if there is a problem in the file transfer, the original files won't be deleted. The transfer of big libraries can require several hours. That happened to me with a power outage at 95% of the process. The files already copied stayed on the new computer, the original files were not deleted and the database of the catalog rolled back to the initial situation as if I had done nothing. So dragging and dropping is safe, at least on recent PSE versions.
4. Once I know the photos are safely on the (H) drive and all links to the catalog have been established I’ll take a new backup of the catalog onto the separate Seagate expansion drive (F)
5. Do I need to take a separate backup of the photos which are now on the (H) drive?
6. I’ll then delete the photos on the C drive.
7. In future any new photos I take and import into Element 11 organiser, I’ll save on the (H) drive.
Have I got the steps right? Any help would be appreciated as I don’t want to lose anything.
Thanks.
If you take a new backup, it will include all the files recorded in the catalog. If you still have pictures on your C: drive, and possibly others on other external drives, everything will be backed up. You can't specify a backup for images in a given disk, only for all images in a catalog. For instance, you can move only a part of your images on your C: drive. You can add pictures in the drive you want, C: or H:

Using iPad 2 photos and have not found key to organizing or moving photos from one album to another existing album

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Moving photos between projects

I'm having a problem - erratically - moving photos from one project to another. When I select one photo & drag it to a different project - the entire project gets moved instead of just the one selected photo. (I've double checked that there are no photos selected before I select the photo that I want to move.)
If I cancel the move, I end up with missing thumbnails & sometimes missing photos.
This is erratic because sometimes dragging one photo to another project works.

It is really hard to tell what might be happening - we need more details:
What is your Aperture version? The most recent Aperture 3.4.1?
Are your images referenced or managed? Raw or jpegs?
How did you edit them? With Aperture or an external editor?
Do you create new versions when editing and stack them, or edit the current version?
And after moving to a new project, the preview of the version shows the original master, but the thumbnail shows the original edits? Is that correct?
I Suspect, when you moved the images, they lost their previews. As a test, duplicate an image version (Photo > Duplicate Version) and force the generation of a new preview (Ctrl-click, hold down the options key ⌥, select "Generate Preview"). Does that bring back the edits? Also you could try to export the image version ans see, if the edits are still there.
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HI Trev
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Here is how the Help tell me of Moving Photos (BUT IT DOESN"T DO THAT!!)

I do exactly what it says but it doesn't copy the file to another event. I can however copy them anywhere else. It is **** of a work to copy them to the desctop and back to the event I want to have them be in...Do any1 have any Idea why it doesnt copy??
Select Events in the Source list.
Command-click to select two or more Events.
Double-click one of the chosen Events to open them.
If you have set your preferences to use the Event double-click to magnify photos, move your mouse to the bottom of the Event’s key photo and click the “Show photos” button when it appears.
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I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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Moving photos off of my mac's hard drive & onto an external without affecting my imported LR2 pics

HI! A little info first...
I am a photog so I have thousands of photos that i work with from my Mac's Internal Hard Drive.
First, I upload photos from my camera to the Pictures folder on my Mac.
Then, I upload the photos LR where I choose the ones I want to keep and edit. I, then, export my edited photos back to the original folder they were in.
I backup daily using Time Machine, so I am good there, but my HD is about completely full so I need to MOVE the folders of Pics OFF of my computer's HD.
I know that if I move the photos off of my HD and onto an external, all of my photos will in LR will be lost (broken links?).
So, I have two questions...
How can I do this big move and still keep my LR folders in tact? Is this possible?
and,
Should I start a new catalog to begin my new batch of incoming photos? I have so many folders in LR now, that I sometimes have a hard time finding the folder that I need.
**I am using LR2
Thank you so much, in advance, for any help or suggestion!!!
Heidi

Hi Heidi!
   Okay, let's see...
i ADD photos to catalog without moving. and when i export...i export them back to their original folder.
So basically, you are elminating most of the functions of using LR in the first place. So, let me explain a bit..
LR is designed to do a couple of things for your; manage large collections of images, and edit images without destruction of the original image.
Let's take the last one first: without destruction.   You are pointing LR at an original image (using the Add import).   You then use LR to do all the edits you like to it. Then you Export back into the same directory, _overwriting_ your original. This means that all of the history that LR keeps track of, such as your color edits, etc, gets wiped out.   That neatly negates LR's ability to do non-destructive editing.   Because you can't go back to your original, having overwritten it.
Do you have a reason why you shoot in jpg mode? Or is it just because you haven't understood or tried raw mode? The difference shooting in raw makes is quite dramatic in LR compared to shooting in jpg. (And, it makes it almost impossible to overwrite the original!) But that can come as a later refinement, if you wish. Let's work on your current problem.
on the left side, under folders...i have about 200 folders from the last
year and i have about 60,000 photos total in my catalog. obviously, it
is getting hard for me to find folders when i need them even though i do
label each folder with the year/month/brief desciption (2010 december
xmas)
I think we have a different description of how you create folders. If you have 200 hundred folders, you are not doing what you claim; year/month/... Becuase that would mean you have been taking photos for 200 years!
Here is what I meant by folder structures. I keep all of my images in a sub-folder called MainCatalog. That way, when I do backups, I only have to grab that one folder, and everything below it is backed up.
Top level is major project, it's the one farthest left, below my parent folder:
MainCatalog
   family_farm
   rugby
   wedding
Under those catagories, each one has a year folder.
MainCatalog
   family_farm
            2010
            2011
And each folder under the year has month
MainCatalog
family_farm
           2010
                 2010-01
                 2010-05
And each folder with month under it has the day,
MainCatalog
family_farm
          2010
                2010-05
                         2010-05-03
                         2010-05-06
You could, for example, replace the bottom folder with a description appended to it. You can see that this decreases the number of folders you have to scan to find what you are looking for; by knowing the year and month, it's down to at most 31 folders. This can be changed around; you could remove the top level project, and just use the rest of it, or move the project to the bottom... many ways of doing it. One reason I chose this method is that LR will create all of the folders for me, I just create the top level major project folder. Then in the import dialog, I point to the major project folder, and tell LR to import via the date format, and choose the year->year-mon->year-mon-day format. Easy.
Now, as to moving your images to an external disk...
First, I would promote a parent folder. This is done from within LR. Bring up LR, and right-click on any of the folders you currently have, and select "promote parent folder". This will have the effect of moving all of your folders into a sub-folder, and you'll now see the sub-folder at the very top in your list. This is good.
And by finder, we meant the normal operating system's finder, not from within LR. Some people move from within LR, some don't. I find that if I use the operating system to move my files and later tell LR to reconnect them, I don't have problems with LR not being able to see the drive, as some people say they do. Works both ways, but I obviously like my way better.
Now, as to moving your images... yep, it's easy, as someone else pointed out. Just drag (move, not copy) and drop onto your new hard drive from your operating system. Then when you bring up LR, you'll see '?' on the folder pane, saying LR doesn't know where these are anymore. Right-click on the top-level (parent) folder that you promoted, and browse to the new location and LR will connect them again. The reason for doing the promote parent is that you only have to do this once; LR will connect all of the folders below it if they are in the same structure.
You don't need to upgrade to LR 3.3 if you don't need to yet; I would recommend downloading Lr 2.7, however, as it fixed a few bugs in 2.6. And it's a free upgrade. With your current worfflow, there isn't a dramatic improvement in using 3.3. The improvements are mostly for raw files, and many people have found that 3.3 is slower in regards to 2.6/2.7.
Does that make sense now?
Cheers!

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