PSD files smart album...

Hello. I have lots of PSD files in lots of albums and rolls, and I want to put them all together in an album.. How I can do this? Using the ".psd" sufix doesn't work either with File Name or Version Name categories... Can anybody please help...?? Thank you

You should have no trouble doing this.
Just create a Smart Album at the root level of your Library (click the Library icon, then create the Smart Album to do this). Click the magnifying glass icon next to the Smart Album's name to open up the Smart Settings HUD for the album and type ".psd" in the search field.
Also important: Turn on the Ignore Stack Groupings checkbox at the bottom of the HUD. The insures that the Smart Album will look INSIDE your stacks and not just at the "picks" when looking for .psd files.
The result should be a Smart Album in which all your PSD files are automatically shown. I just tried it on my system and it worked perfectly.
Joe Schorr
Sr. Product Manager, Aperture
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Albums are just collections of Pointers that point to individual image files living in one or more Projects. Since they just contain pointers, albums can be created or deleted at will without affecting image files. Very powerful. And Albums of pointers take up almost zero space, so they are fast and do not make the Library size grow.
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