Several questions regarding aperture 1.5.2

hi.
I am a new mac user (just started using several days now), and apparently Aperture.
One of the reason why I switched to Apple is Aperture and future CS3. In any rate, I have these questions if anyone can answer.
First, my spec is as follows.
Mac Pro/2.66Ghz/5Gb/250GB+320GB HD/ATI X1900 Video Card.
1. I have imported about 4000 images into Aperture library. I liked the idea of vault and backing up to another device/hd for safety. Now that I have about 4000 images, the photo editing has SLOWED down dramatically. What I saw the changes immediately, now I have to wait 1 or 2 seconds before I see the result. Is this normal? I am worried that if I import another batch of photos from another HD, it'll slow down even more. How can I improve the overall responsiveness and performance of Aperture?
2. Is there a way to export entire library/project/folder from Aperture Library back to hard drive? I tried export, but it seems to export only individual photos. I wouldn't want to repeat the process 4000 times in order to export the master files back to the external HD in its original format. Is there any way?
I can't seem to locate the color management/profile setting. Is it default to AdobeRGB or Proofing is what it is?
Thanks for any response in advance.

Hi and welcome.
1) Is Aperture processing previews? This takes a long time after import (hours), and it will slow the overall responsiveness of the machine down. If you don't need the previews, you can turn them off. Be aware you have to do this in more places than just the preferences, you have to click the "action" gearwheel and disable them. See if Aperture is burning CPU cycles generating previews.
2) Yes. Select a project and export it. Perhaps you have some photos selected and not a project. Ensure you don't have photos selected, and click specifically on a project in the list. Under the Export menu item there should be a "Project" option.
3) The default color space used by Aperture is "large." It is larger than Pro Photo RGB according to Joe Schorr. When you export a photo, only then is a color space applied (this is in general a good thing -- artificially limiting the color space to something as small as Adobe RGB could cause banding during editing).
I would suggest you not use onscreen proofing except for when you plan to print -- it often has some strange effects which will show definite posterization.

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I have a question regarding emails being marked as unread when syncing with an exchange account.
In the evening I can see I have 10 unread emails on my exchange account. I leave them unread. The following day, at work, I view and read all my mails from today and yesterday, so that I have NO unread messages. When I then sync my iphone it marks only the mails from today as read but, leaves all the mails from yesterday marked unread. Only solution so far is for me to go through the mails on my iphone one at a time for them to be marked as read.
My mail account is set to sync 1 month back.
I have had this problem on all the iphones I have had.
I currently have an iPhone 5 and my software is up to date.
What am I doing wrong?

Hey kabsl,
Thanks for the post.
What type of email account is attached to your BlackBerry Z10? (POP3, IMAP, Exchange). Also have you tried removing and re-adding the email account to test?
Is this email account only setup on one computer or several computer?
I look forward to your reply.
Cheers.
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Several questions that I do not see in the "FAQ" about CC.

I have several questions that I do not see in the "FAQ". Here are three of them.
1) After a cancellation of membership, for whatever reason, will I still be able to use the After Effects I bought before this CC thing?
2) What happened to the software I have purchased in the past? I can no longer link to the page that contains my serial numbers for the products that I have purchased.
3) And can I no longer download my software if my copies are lost?
4) Is CC the only way to get future software versions? It appears that using the software through a subscription keeps one from upgrading to new versions without having to keep paying once you purchased or one will not be able to use the software.

1) After a cancellation of membership, for whatever reason, will I still be able to use the After Effects I bought before this CC thing?
1, After cancelling CC you can use the perpetual products purchased by you earlier. If you have registered them you can access them via Adobe.com (Retail purchase)
2) What happened to the software I have purchased in the past? I can no longer link to the page that contains my serial numbers for the products that I have purchased.
As mentioned all your previous purchases are available to you, to get the serial number of past if they are retail purchase & registered then :
Enter your Adobe ID and password, and then click Sign In. Go to manage account(you get this when the cursor is hovered over your sign in name, choose all products.
The My Adobe page is displayed. All your registered products and their serial numbers are listed in theMy products section
3) And can I no longer download my software if my copies are lost?
Yes you can download it if you have purchased it as an download link as the download option is also available with the serial number, you can find some download here also Download and Installation Help
4) Is CC the only way to get future software versions? It appears that using the software through a subscription keeps one from upgrading to new versions without having to keep paying once you purchased or one will not be able to use the software.
The best part of CC is that you do not need to make another purchase, the CC keeps on upgrading on its own at no extra cost, you can get the upgrades till the time you have active CC.
Regards
Rajshree

-newBee-Im tring to use Creator 2 EA 2 and have several questions -

Hi
Im tring to use Creator 2 EA 2 and have several questions - i will be thankful for reciving answers.
0-It take 300 meg of my memory in small 10 page sample project / is it normal ? (memory shown in task manager windows XP)
0-Where i can find documents about Creator way of using RowSet technology ?
I have several question which i could not find answers in documents or online tutorials my questions are :
1-for example i have a table in a data source ? how i can access my table ?
2-i bind fields of jsftest table to texteditors i can save changes to current field
by using : jsftestDataProvider.commitChanges();
Now how i can insert a new ROW ?
i tried jsftestDataProvider.appendRow(); in another button action but it insert null items
into database / how i can add a row to my table
3-how i can delete a field based on a field value ? or even primary key value ?
should i write the sql Script in Session bean method and use that in my jsf pages ? or maybe RowSet technology has some
solution for this ?
4-How i can use HTML tags (not jsf tags)inside a jsf file ?
is it possible to use them or not ? for example to generate a table with some dynamic column number?
5-is it possible to use JSP tag libraries like DisplayTag in jsf ?
6-does Creator 2 EA 2 support Myface ?
7-can i add html tags to result page in java source file ? for example in Action on a button add some HTML tag to result page ?
8-how i can pass url parameter between pages ? if i do not like to use request bean.
Its my question for Now ;)
Thank you for answering

Haha.... thats normal.
I've 768mb of ram, and i can still feel the lag, especially when the server and pointbase is one,
worst still.... i having JSC and Netbean running together -_-"
i think 1.5GB of ram wld be gd
Regarding the tutorial part, there are api in the "Dynamic Help" box,
What i did was extracting the java doc into my desktop for easy reference. JSC's screen is too small.
U can find these references under "C:\Sun\Creator2\rave2.0\docs". Just unzip them

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