Organizing Files

Trying to organize music files in the Live Hub. Don't know if it's relevant, but I uploaded files from from a separate hard drive through my old laptop (XP) and WD Discovery app. Set Hub to filter "Artists" and sort alphabetically. Problem is that Live Hub recognized the artists and if a band name starts with "The" it put that in and then sorted the names alphabetically, with all those bands (like over 125 of them, in my case) all listed under the letter 'T'. In the original files I had taken out "The", "A", etc., just to prevent that from happening.Is there any way of changing that? I want to find the Beatles (for instance) under 'B', not 'T'! Also, selecting an artist brings up all tracks from all albums, NOT the individual albums, and they're all jumbled together.Any way to change that, as well? And "Favorites" are displayed by song, not by artist- another organizational problem.

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scSaxon1 wrote:
Hello Everyone,
... what I would like to do is take my Aperture Organized file structure and Export all the masters to a different location _in the same organized File structure_ . Basically I want my "New" Master file structure to match my Aperture organized folder/project structure .... {Emphasis added}
(Added) First -- and this is important -- you must understand the difference between exporting an image (which creates a new file) and +relocating your Masters+ which moves your Masters to another drive location and tells Aperture where they are.
What you want to do -- quoted above -- can't be automatically (and thus usefully) done ... and (imho and apparently the Aperture design team's HO as well) there is no need.
Stepping into Aperture's world is bit like stepping off the solid pier onto a boat. You feel afloat. You worry about sinking. The boat won't sink.
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>> What's a root folder? And how do you
create/designate a root folder?
>> Thanks
>> for your help. I appreciate it.
>
> from reading your other reply- did you define a site's
local site folder
> as
> being just C: ?? the entire drive??
>
> The concept is you make a new site definition for each
site. Every
> different
> domain name is a unique site definition. You don't put a
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> into one folder and mingle the files together.
>
> Here's what most people do-
> go to where you want to store your sites on your hard
drive.
> maybe in "my documents' or anyplace else.
>
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"fred"
>
> Inside of that folder- make a new folder for EACH site
you want to
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>
> when making a site definition in dreamweaver- use the
"browse" button
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> You should define the local site folder to the folder
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>
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>
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