Uninstalling Aperture 3 Trial, iPhoto lock & Access to photos

Greetings,
My Aperture trial expired, but I'm not ready to buy.
The trial open dialog keeps appearing whenever I plug in my iPhone, and now since Aperture expired, iTunes is saying iTunes Library is locked or I don't have permission, so I can't sync my iPhone, in fact I can't even open iTunes. Perhaps unrelated to Aperture, but this lock out happened after I say "quit" to Aperture and I can't bypass Aperture because the iPhone triggers it.
Now, I'd like to remove the trial of Aperture so I can sync my iPhone, but now I'm reading that all my photos pulled using Aperture are not accessible unless I export the originals. Really? That' seems a bit over reaching, but maybe I'm missing something here. I've shot about 3K photos during the trial and I'd be a bit miffed if Aperture truly prevented me from accessing my own content.
Some help please.
Thanks,
Joan

Thanks for this info. Moving Aperture to the Trash (and restarting my computer) worked to get my iPhone sync'd.
Regarding moving master photos, I got a dialog from Aperture when I plugged in my iPhone. It said my trial had ended and if I wanted to export my photos (or similar message). Of course I said yes and moved the photos elsewhere.
I tried your method after the fact and no masters were in the folder you mentioned, but I'm pretty sure they went into the new export folder I created, which appears to have all the images processed during the test. Just mentioning it appears that process moved files out of the Aperture Library, and not copied them to the new location, but I'm sure you know that. I mention for other readers who may run into a similar problem.
I did know the trial was ending, I just didn't think (and rightly so) that my images would not be accessible after the trial expired. I am certainly happy for that.
Thanks for you help.
Joan

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Phew....hope this makes sense, and looking for guidance if possible. If I do need to start over, would I just uninstall Aperture, and iPhoto, then re-download them, or just drag and drop the backup from the EHD and that will work?
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thanks corky! since i'm such a novice, a little of that was over my head, but i love to learn new things!
Sorry if I gave too much detail. In a nutshell, the user library folder (which is hidden by default in Lion and Mountain Lion) simply holds settings for any given program including settings the user can change in the program. All of the files in that folder are recreated either automatically by the program when launched again, or by the user making setting changes in the program again. Leaving them in place for a re-install is fine as long as none are corrupted.
Well, i kinda jumped ahead, and hope i didn't make it worse. I already put the corrupt AP library in my trash and it's emptying right now. i didn't see the need to keep it, plus with as many files as it contained (over 300,000 as i said), I felt like i needed to get it off my hd. kind of like smelly old food! (bad analogy, i know!)
Not a problem since you have a known good backup library on the EHD.
So, that said, if i understand correctly, i will open Ap after, import a few images-from where? I won't have a library any more. Then if i works correctly, I would drag the good backup from my EHD, to the PIctures folder in the Finder window, and then import to Aperture from there? Just do "import", and then that's it, or is it more complicated than that?
Once you launch Aperture for the first time after re-install, import any pictures you have to test with. Take a couple pictures on your camera and then import those. Make sure you can import successfully and that you can add adjustments. Then export them to anywhere you want (Desktop, Pictures folder, or any other folder) to make sure the export function works correctly. If all is fine, quit Aperture and then delete that library (which should be quite small and quick to delete).
Connect the EHD and then drag your known good backup library to the Pictures folder and then double-click it to load it. You should then be back to square one before everything went sideways (assuming the backup is a managed library with the Master (Originals) in the library).
Note - if you were running a Referenced library (where the Masters (Originals) were located outside the library package in Finder folders) - then you will need to make sure the Masters (Originals) are located in their correct locations before launching the good library so the library will locate them automatically. I mention this because you said in your opening post that you were combining libraries and relocating Masters so I am not sure what type of library the known good backup library is.
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Hey Guys,
I want to know if there is a way of using iPhoto or Aperture without having to store my photos into their library.
I've been traditionally keeping my photos in my "Pictures" album by adding folders and numbering them accordingly to keep track of my albums. Because some times I edit stuff and what not, their dates are often modified and thus when I drop them into iPhoto or Aperture's library, it screws up the order of my folders. Hence I've never really gone around using iPhoto and Aperture.
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Is there a way for Aperture or iPhoto to do the same thing so I can keep to my own method of handling my photo albums, and yet benefit from iPhoto or Aperture's editing functions?
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http://lh4.ggpht.com/_VCQcabAM1aI/THXRACXyCAI/AAAAAAAAIJU/NPpVMJQw7mI/Folder.jpg
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Andrew
I don't think you've grasped Aperture or iPhoto. Both are Digital Asset Managers. Neither are photo editors, which seems to be what you want.
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Does this mean I can still edit a picture
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Not without exporting first - and frankly, why would you bother waste the disk space. Further, these apps are Managers, the point is that you access the photos via the iPhoto or Aperture application, not the Finder. It's a bit like AddressBook. That's your address manager, it makes no sense to try and root around in the Application Support Folder to access and address because the +access point+ to this information is the AddressBook window.
b) save over the original picture?
Neither app will do this. The +entire point+ of these applications is to preserve the Original as a "Digitial Negative" and not to ever change this.
If you want to directly edit the photos then you need a photo editor like Photoshop.
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TD

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Hello Leonie,
You were right on - many thanks! I thought I was facing having to start over again.
I have found Apple's Aperture User's Guide very useful but nowhere in its 907 pages have I found your instructions described or "iPhoto Converted" defined.
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Mike

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Terence - thanks for your kind words about how I don't get it. I am not trying, nor do I want to be forced, to use iPhoto to send my photos via an application OR service I prefer not to use. If that is the only way to do so, then it is my decision to accept that or not, and indeed, stop using it. But I paid for it and I prefer that it play nice with the rest of the world. I understand why it is easier to develop a set of compimentary software (whether it is a service running an application on a server or as an application running on my Mac) in a closed system way. Your terminoloty of "service" and "application" are not universally accepted and not widely used by all the users out there. I have bona fides as system designer and developer but I won't assume that would make any difference to smug people out there and was there when the client/server model was initially developed and since turned into to server-based iCloud-type database services. BTW I don't like having my sensitive personal info on a machine I can't lock up for myself but I am just paranoid and naive. But I am fine being able to copy and access my photos with other applications that run on my personal Mac, and also to use the "service" that Gmail provides running their application via a client/server model. I don't like Apple changing the rules to force me to use iCloud as a service to replace my Contacts application running on my iPhone and Mac. Sure it is handy to have iCloud do that but I would prefer to have the option to keep local control of my contacts and calendar and there was no reason for Apple to force me to use iCloud except for other business reasons that benefit them more than it does me.
I did thank you for providing me the info to allow me to do exactly what I wanted to do. I don't find iPhoto to be either intuitive nor well documented which is why there are people like you out there that have fun helping ignorant people like me to ask questions for answers that should be provided by iPhoto documentation. I did spend over an hour trying to find the answers you gave me and only came here as a last resort. Believe me, it is not fun to have to do that with everything Apple (and Microsoft, et al). One of my hats in previous jobs was to manage the documentation process for far more arcane software than this. The standard was that a user should be able to understand how the software works without jumping through hoops like going to a support group to be put down by those who have the time to sort all this out full time (or during the other time that other people use to have a life).
I am used to using Gmail, and Outlook before that, and Yahoo before that..... I am not a power user. I don't want or care to. I use iPhoto because it is what came with my Mac and what works with my iPhone. It is a very closed architecture and this is not the only frustration I have had with this model, especially with the lack of complete support for the products. I won't bore you with the wide and numerous problems people smarter than me have had with Apple products. And in any case, swearing at software is a long and distinguished process. I am not the first and not the last. At least I was only thanking you for your help rather than swearing at you. I don't appreciate your condescending attitude for poor schmucks like me though.
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