Rating filter

Is Aperture bugged?
Sometimes when I filter for 3 stars and above it includes random selections rated below and sometimes just a group of images leaving out other 3 star rated images?
Is there a modus operandi I should be following?
In Adobe bridge..you just click and its sorted!...so why is it so hard and complex in Aperture?

that's a hard one.
for some people, projects will be collections of photographs from one photo shoot. for others (like myself), projects will be long term collections. for example, I have projects for Birds, Animals, Insects and Family (not in that order though
I have a top-level folder called "  to process" (with two leading spaces to keep it at the top of the list) which contains all of the newly-imported rolls of 'film' that need to be rated, keyworded, categorised and moved. each roll of 'film' is a project in itself. if I move all of the images out of the project into other existing projects, I'll delete the original empty project.
I have another top-level folder called "Nature". it's structured as:
Nature (folder)
  Animals (project)
    " unidentified" (smart album)
    Bats (smart album)
etc
  Birds (project)
    " unidentified" (smart album)
    Bulbuls (smart album)
    Buzzards (smart album)
etc
I actually have a top-level " unidentified" keyword that I apply to all nature images whose subjects I do not yet recognise. I can then use this keyword to collect all of those unknown creatures together until I find them in my books, categorise them, re-keyword them and remove the " unidentified" keyword which automatically removes them from the first album.
I was going to have one project per species but it seemed too complex to administrate in the long run.
another top-level folder is "Travel":
Travel (folder)
  2002|Russia (project)
  2005|09 Indonesia (project)
    Albums (folder)
      Indonesia 2005, Day 1 (smart web album: keyword = "Web Album 1", custom theme)
      Indonesia 2005, Day 1 Cover (web journal, custom theme specifically to create 'cover/intro pages' for my albums)
      Indonesia 2005, Day 2 (smart web album: keyword = "Web Album 2")
      Indonesia 2005, Day 2 Cover (smart web album)
something that doesn't get discussed much here is how Aperture uses 'scopes'. when you add a smart album to a project, only the images from that project will be available to that album. the same applies for other filtered objects. it's very powerful and simplifies many of the arrangement tasks we have to do. it's much easier to know that you're filtering from a subset than from the whole of the library.
if you want to set up albums or filtered objects with images from anywhere in the library, simply create them at the root level. you can then apply filters or drag images from anywhere in the library and add them to your albums, etc.
additionally, remember that Stacks were designed to keep near-identical usually rapid-fire photos together in one heap, allowing you to simplify your collection. one image from each stack can be selected as the Pick of the stack which will be the one referred to by Aperture when you add the stack to albums, etc or when you sort/filter your images. stacks were not designed for general grouping of images.
if you need any more help, shout.

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