Transferring image files as information files only

We have 30g of image files and live in 2 diff. cities, files are identical. We want a person in 1 city to sort, then send information file without the actual pictures to the other city. Then we want the other city to import the file and be able to find the matching 30g of files. Does this make sense?
How do we go about doing this? Is there a plug-in for this type of thing?

This can be done if the files are in the exact same folder structure on a drive that has the exact same volume name.
Get rid of all the previews in the aperture library to make it as small as possible, make sure all the files are referenced and then compress the aperture library and send it back and forth.
This will give you everything including all the Aperture adjustments.
There is a ton of stuff about previews/file management on my site.
RB

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I mean, when you move or upload it, it loses this data association anyways!
To a drive which doesn't support Apple's AB tree structure (NTFS, FAT, FAT32, exFAT), yes. To another HFS+ drive, no.
What about uploading the file to the cloud?? Does it lose this association or not?? And does anyone really care about the data in the Resource fork?
This "Resource Fork" means nothing to the file owner, only to the OS and the Drive. Therefore, it shouldn't be added to the total. Period. Because its not part of the file, its part of Apple's tree structure! This is really a simple concept, not sure why you are bending over backwords to defend a clearly stupid oversight from apple!
There's no reason to force me to use the command line to get the real file size of a GIF! There's just no excuse for that!
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There is no such thing as it's file size. A file size is a file size, accross all platforms, on the cloud, wherever!
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That is why I'm surprised that they are breaking simple UI Design rules.
The User Interface has nothing to do with the file structure of a drive.
I don't care about the structure of the drive!! Neither should you, neither should the average user!
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do you think it is at all logical, that when you select 300 or so files, and click Get Info, that it open 300 windows at once each showing separate information for each file? Or does it make a lot more sense, intuitively, to get the total tally of all the files selected added up, without having to hold down shortcut keys when clicking them to do so?
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No, that's not what I told the OS to do. I selected 300 files cumulatively, therefore, I should get the cumulative info for all the selected files. That's just common sense. Every other OS seems to get this!
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In this i attach my image file in Tif format & jpeg format
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Sasi,
I am a little confused on what exactly you want to do and why you are using both WinDraw and an Image Display Control to show the image. It sounds like what you want to be able to do are the following 3 things:
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I have attached an image of a block diagram, which is what I think that you are trying to do. In the block diagram you can see that I have combined everything into one case structure so that whenever a user clicks on the Image Display (no WinDraw) then I add a rectangle overlay to my image and also get the pixel values for that area. If you want to keep track of the pixel values for each rectangle then you could use a shift register and build up a 3-D array with all of this information ... or write the data to file ... or use another method to keep that data for future use.
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