Projects & Folders
A little background. I shoot kids sports. Mostly weekend. Advanced amateur. Shoot and post to a website for parents to buy. Not a full time job.
When I first started using Aperture I would shoot a game, put the original files into a folder under Pictures on the hard drive, and then import the folder to a new Project in Aperture.
I now realize that I should have named a Project "Softball" (for example) and imported each team as a seperate folder under the Softball Project. So, now I have created a Project named Softball and I want to move the about 10 Projects named after teams to be folders under the Softball Project. I cannot seem to figure out how to do that.
Is it possible?
Doug
Yes, you can do this.
- Create a new project "Softball"
- Create new albums in the "Softball" project. One album for each team.
You will now have your "old" projects, with pictures, and your new "Softball" project, with no files.
- Select any project containing photos you want to move. "Select All" of the photos in the project.
- Drag these photos to the appropriate "team" album, created above.
- Drag these photos (again) to the "Softball" project.
- repeat for each team/old project
Note that the "first" drag above will put the photos in the album. This is like creating an alias - it will not move the photo file into the "Softball" project. That is what the second drag is for. You can confirm that the photos are copied to the "new" project by looking at the info pane. At that point, you can delete the "old" projects.
You may also want to consider keywords as an organization option. Aperture offers several different ways to organize and sort photos - perhaps another method will work better for you.
--Joe
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No one would be paying for the file itself that's part of the membership. I don't want to get into any copyright problems.
My gut reaction is that you may well run into © issues if you re-distribute the original AppleLoops.If your customers are paying for the training, they are also paying for the content you provide, so I feel that you would be re-selling the loops.
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I'm using RH X5 with SVN as my source control software. I
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I have a growing library of images in Aperture. I am also a stock photographer by living. My library in Aperture is somewhat haphazard and I'm trying to organize it so that I can have it make sense. I do not sell my photos as stock myself (I submit to several agencies) so I'm not sure that I need to file my images so that I can get to them if a client needs a shot. That's what the agencies are for.
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n attempting to relocate a folder it did not end up where intended and I cannot find it.
I hope you are referring to doing the relocation from within iPhoto and not in the Finder and the library package. Any moving, renaming of files and/or folder inside the iPhoto Library Package while in the Finder is tantamount to the cardinal sin of iPhoto, Don't tamper with files in the iPhoto Library folder from the Finder. That will mess up your library to where you may have to start over with a new library.
Can you describe where these folders and albums were located when you were moving them?
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FC Events & Projects folders on external HD, and some clips missing.
Hello there,
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Is it possible to hide or even encrypt projects / folders?
Hi,
for projects / folders containing sensitive stuff that I don't want to accidentally show people when browsing through my projects structure, I'd like to be able to hide/lock some projects or folders. Even better would be if I could password-protect them with encryption added.
Is there anything in Aperture or possibly an add-on that will allow me to do this?
Outside of Aperture I can only think of zipping up the pictures, password-protecting the zip file and to keep these pictures completely away from Aperture...would be nice to be able to do this within the Aperture library, though...
Thanks for any ideas / pointers!No way to do it from within Aperture. Lock your computer when you're not there and it will be protected as long as nobody breaks in
Outside of that, there's an easier way to protect an entire library.
You can create an encrypted disk image (using Disk Utility). Make it a sparse image and specify the max size... it will be able to grow to that size (it will only take as much space as is used). Open that (do NOT check "save password"), and create an Aperture Library there that stores your s3cr3t images and projects. Then close it and double-click your "normal" library when you're done. It would be pretty easy to do. I actually use encrypted images in this manner when I want to send stuff to people via my iDisk... even if you get the file off my public iDisk, you can't get the contents of the file without the password. -
I was trying to capture a simulation when a pop-up window came with this error:
"A fatal error has occurred and the application is being terminated. Adobe Captivate has tried to save all your work in the respective project folders as ".cpbackup" files.Please restart Adobe Captivate."
I tried every possible solution but i am getting the same error. Even now, i am not able to open a blank project. I cleared Preferences and Cache, Restarted the system, uninstalled and re-installed captivate but the error occurs.
Please help.Having admin rights is not the same as 'Run Captivate as administrator'. For the last, right-click on the start icon for Captivate and check 'Run as administrator'. Or click on Advanced, where you can check the option to always run as administrator.
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While developing large Flex projects, I often find myself wanting to organize the project folders so that everything is neat and logical.
One of my main concerns in doing so was that the bin-release folder had only whatever necessary items there were to run the project, and nothing extra. Therefore, I found I should place any assets loaded at compile time NOT in the src folder, but in a separate folder somewhere outside the src (any non-code files in src or subfolders seem to be exported in the bin-release).
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Liviuasuch:
Terence may have a good idea there about replacing the alias files with the original "source" files. I'd do it for one small roll first to see if it will work satisfactorily. If so then proceed folder by folder, checking as you go along.
The fact that the source file does not get deleted when you delete in iPhoto is one of the caveats of that system. One way to find and delete the source file before deleting from iPhoto is to Control-click on the thumbnail and select Show File or Show Original File if it's been edited. That will take you to that file already selected in the Finder and all you'll need to do is type CommandShiftDelete to move it to the Trash. Then go back to iPhoto and delete it from the library.
I suppose an Applescript could be written to do that from iPhoto. If you want to keep the alias system ask in the Applescript forum if anyone has one or can write one.
If you keep that system you might get some helpful tips from my Tutorials that I've written. The are primarily for converting to one but there may be something that will be of interest.
Do you Twango?
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Does anyone move project folders around or is it recommended to leave them in the Music>Logic folder?
I read:
+Copying or Moving a Project Folder+
+A project folder can be freely moved or copied to another location by using any of the+
+standard operating system methods. This is great for archiving and transport of+
+projects to other studios or facilities.+
+All files in the target (copy) folder will still be found correctly, provided that they are all+
+in the root (or sub-folders of ) the project folder—audio files are found in the Audio+
+Files sub-folder, samples in the Samples sub-folder, sampler instruments in the Sampler+
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Yet...if I drag a project folder from Music>Logic to my desktop, the audio and MIDI files of the project will not be able to be found upon opening that project from the desktop. The subfiles still appear to be rooted in the main project folder. For now I'm certainly not moving any more projects around, but I should be able to correct?
Thanks!
jOK.
If I want to save a newly created project to the desktop instead of the Logic folder, then I could save as, or save a copy as, check the appropriate boxes to include files etc. and choose desktop. Would I need to group files in the audio bin and consolidate first before this saving, or after I've saved when I open it next?
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Inserting graphics from Project Folders
My project folders represent the menu options associated with the application for which we are generating the Help file. Graphics for each topic are stored in, and subsequently inserted from, the folder for that menu option.
The exception: The bottom controls (buttons) on all screens in the application are, many times, interchangeable and I have created graphics for each of them. Do I have to replicate these graphics in each menu option folder, or can I create one "Buttons" folder and pull from there for the entire project?Images used for the topics in one folder are best stored that folder. Images that are shared in the way you describe can be stored in Buttons or whatever.
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and move the topics individually. That worked fine but now that
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Manager. They are empty (when checking Windows Explorer) except for
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control. This project in on my local computer.Okay. As far as your first suggestion of running a Topic
Properties report ... what would I run this report on when there
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