Why am I seeing my entire Aperture library on ATV?

I have Aperture selected as to where I want iTunes to get my photos from. I then have the box checked for SELECTED albums etc and then went through and only checked 2 or 3 albums leaving the rest unchecked.
When I go to the PHOTOS section within my Apple TV, it is showing me my complete library of photos!! I do NOT want all those images showing up, just the ones I selected.
Anyone know why this is happening? I checked my iPod and its displaying exactly the albums I want to see but for some reason Apple TV is showing me my entire library of photos.

no replies....wow

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Aperture: Can I backup my entire Aperture library at once?

Soon I will be backing up my my entire notebook to a portable external hard drive to be placed in a safety deposit box as an off site backup. For a general day to day back up I use Aperture's Vault system. But I am very hesitant to do so for a MASTER backup because I don't like the idea of being tied to Aperture if I ever needed to retrieve my data. So is there a way to just have aperture export my entire collection to the hard drive at once instead of going to each project and exporting project by project? Thanks!!

Well...
Note there is no way to export the adjustments you make (levels, retouching, definition, saturation adjustments, etc.) out of Aperture.
As far as your master backup, note you really aren't tied to Aperture if you need to retrieve your data. The masters are always accessible, even when they are inside the Aperture library. That's because the Aperture library is just a set of folders. They are what is called a "package," but if you want to check out what's in the Aperture library you can just right click the library and select "Show package contents..." All your masters are in there.
So as for exporting all your masters in one fell swoop, I don't know of a way to do it. You have to do it a project at a time (and you can elect to export XMP sidecars containing all your keywords, if you wish to read them from some other app that can read XMP files). But that's not how I'd do it if I wanted to access all my masters... here's what I'd do:
Right click my Aperture library and select "Show package contents..."
Once I was in there, I'd type a period in the Finder search box (all file names have a dot in them...)
I'd change the search scope to Aperture library
I'd click the plus below and select "Kind... images"
Voila... every image in your Aperture library will show up in the smart search... your master files, as well as any JPEG previews that Aperture has generated.
You can easily copy these wherever you want, at any time, without needing Aperture installed, so no reason to do the export IMO.

I only import referenced pictures, why y do I have large Aperture library?

Firstly, thank you all for your answers to my previous posts
You are helping me wonderfully in migrating to Aperture
Given my increasingly limited disk space and other management reasons, i only import referenced pictures leaving them in their original locations.
1. I seem to have a what i think is a large and growing Aperture library even though i save no images to the library (eg 1.2G for 2000 pics averaging 300K in size). Is this just the overhead required for using the application and all its edits, previews and references or could i be doing something wrong?
2. If i drag and drop a picture into a project and folder, will it always be a referenced picture or wil it depend on some setting somewhere to determine what happens with a drag and drop import?
Thanks in Advance

I'm a relatively new Aperture user, but I think your library size is comparable to what I'm seeing, and it is previews, editing info etc that takes up the space.
As I understand it, if you drag and drop within Aperture, a referenced file will simply be re-indexed in the new location but remain a references file. If you drag and drop from a folder outside Aperture into Aperture, you will import the file rather than reference it. So far, from my experimenting, you need to use the import dialogue to keep it to referenced files.

TS2518 What happened to all my images or why are they not in the aperture library after upgrading to 3.2.4 How do I find them?

I have recently upgraded my Aperture to 3.2.4 after doing so I found my library has disappeared, how do I search for it or find it again? Has anyone else experienced this? If so how did you fix this?

Have you checked the size of your apparently empty Aperture Library, if it really is empty? Sometimes a filter prevents the contents from showing. Are all search fields (in the Inspector, the Browser) cleared?
Sometimes an Aperture Library is written to the top level of your system drive, if you are having disk trouble.
In the Finder menu bar click "Go" > Go to Folder
and enter a Slash-character : "/", hit return
This will open a Finder Window at the top level of your system volume. Browse from there, if you can find a trace of your aperture library, but be careful not to change or delete anything.
Regards
Léonie
P.S. do you have a backup of your aperture Library?

I lost my entire Aperture library, how can i restore it?

I wanted to import an old project from a previous Aperture but it asked me to update to Aperture 3 when i wanted to import that project.
But i'm already running 3.3.1 never the less i did an update to 3.3.2 but it didn't solve my problem, and gave me the same message.
Eventually restarted my laptop and tried to import the project into Aperture again.
This time the screen comes up that normally shows when you hold the option+command key and asks if i want to update the library since it asked me to do that last time i accepted but now my whole library is gone and replaced with the one old project!
And i can't find my old projects anywhere and the size of my library is only 88GB now (it used to be 200GB)
Now i never deleted any pictures or removed my library so i should be able to recover it somehow right?
iv'e been browing the web but havn't found a solution to revert what iv'e done.
Also looked at recovery of deleted files with MacKeeper but there were no files in there that were previously in my library
so doesn't look like it got thrown in the trash.
If anyone has any suggestions please help me regain my old library,
i'm not importing any new photo's or changing anything right now as i'm affraid i'll never get it back.
i do have some projects backed up but not all of them.

Eventually found a answer after browsing bunch of other threads
"To find a Library go to File/Switch to Library and navigate to the appropriate Library. If that does not solve your issue please provide detailed description of your problematic workflow."

2nd gen apple tv not seeing entire iphoto library

Here's something weird - anyone know why I can't see my entire iPhoto library on my 2nd gen. Apple TV?
I have my entire library shared in iPhoto
I have home sharing turned on in iTunes and am signed in using my Apple ID on the apple TV
I see my whole iTunes library and am able to stream movies etc to Apple TV
What's weird is only certain (two) events show up in the Photos section under "Computers" but when I select computers/photos it says "my iTunes." ALSO, when I go to iTunes/devices on my computer, I don't see my 2nd gen Apple TV listed - only my 1st gen Apple TV...
Any ideas out there, Apple Gurus???
Thanks!!!

You select the photos that are shared to your Apple TV from the advanced menu in iTunes.
Apple TV 2 is not intended to show up under the devices list in iTunes.

Workflow Questions - Same Aperture Library on two machines - Sync ?

Ok, So now that 1.1 is out I copied my Aperture library to my new MacBookPro, updated to v1.1, loaded the program ... and Bam, my library is there and working perfectly (after the Migrate process).
So now, I have my libarary on my Desktop Dual Power PC machine at home and also on my MBP in the field ... I'm in heaven!
My question is this. If I make a bunch of updates to the library (adding new images, new projects, new albums, rating new and existing images, assigning keywords, etc) on my MBP while sitting at Starbucks or laying on the beach is there any way to go home and sync these changes with the library on desktop machine?
I realize that if I do all my work on the MBP in a new Project and then export that project I can then import it into the machine at home ... but that only solves 1/2 my problem ... how do I deal with projects and albums that already exist on both machines?
Copying the entire Aperture Library back and forth is an option but at 40GB and growing that does not seem like a lot of fun.
Any ideas? Even a 3rd party app would be cool if it worked. Would something like ChronoSync see inside the Aperture Library container and deal with changed items?
Thanks,
A happy v1.1 MBP user
Power PC G5, Dual 2 Gz, 3.5 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.3) MacBookPro, 2.16GHz, 2 GB RAM

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My question is this. If I make a bunch of updates to
the library (adding new images, new projects, new
albums, rating new and existing images, assigning
keywords, etc) on my MBP while sitting at Starbucks
or laying on the beach is there any way to go home
and sync these changes with the library on desktop
machine?
I realize that if I do all my work on the MBP in a
new Project and then export that project I can then
import it into the machine at home ... but that only
solves 1/2 my problem ... how do I deal with projects
and albums that already exist on both machines?
Copying the entire Aperture Library back and forth is
an option but at 40GB and growing that does not seem
like a lot of fun.
Any ideas? Even a 3rd party app would be cool if it
worked. Would something like ChronoSync see inside
the Aperture Library container and deal with changed
items?
<...>
Aha! That (file sync) is exactly the first thought I had when I read your post (though I personally was thinking RSyncX, Chrono Sync may be easier to use).
To many programs the Aperture library looks just like a directory, which it really is - Finder and a few other things treat is specially but usually the origins of file synchronization tools are more UNIX utilities that just see the Aperture library and projects therein as a series of directories.
In particular, what you'd be looking for this tool to update are:
* Import directories in exisitng projects with new images and updated sidecar/XML files.
* Added folders and albums
* (most important) new copy of the Aperture database.
All of these things are just files so it should be very easy for the sync utilitiy to find they are newer on the laptop and copy them over.
Now what will not work well with this approach would be to edit files on the laptop and the desktop at the same time, and then attempt to syncronize them - but if you are only using one at a time you should not have issues.
I would make a small sample library in both places to test this approach against but I see no reason why it should not work.
The only other approach really would be shuttling projects back and forth between systems, which you may have to do someday if your desktop library exceeds the capacity of the laptop.

Can you move the aperture library without losing images?

my library is defaulted to imac..
but can you house it on external drive..I know, yes, as a referenced library.
but I already have some [lots] images in library.
can I move the library and maintain contents?
also..
once you import into library, is the original image in folder it was in before? or it's deleted?
just trying to see what will work best for my needs?
as I sometimes travel/live in 2nd home and just carry external drive
thanks for input/suggestion

Menu>File>Vault
Creating what Ap[erture calls a 'Vault' seems like the easiest way to do it.
Here is the complete Help section on backing up your library.
QUOTE:
As you begin working with Aperture, it’s important to perform regular backups of your photos. Using the Aperture backup system, you can create backups and update them whenever you wish. Aperture tracks your backups and indicates how up to date your most recent backup is. In the rare event of equipment failure or an unforeseen catastrophe such as a fire or weather-related damage, you can easily restore the entire Aperture library onto your computer or a new computer.
You set Aperture to back up a copy of the library to a designated storage area called a vault. For safety and redundancy, use external hard disks to hold your vaults. You can create as many vaults as you deem necessary.
When you back up your photos, Aperture makes a complete copy of the library in its current state. If you remove items from the library, those items are removed from the backup when it is next updated.
All originals for managed images, all versions, and all metadata, previews, and adjustment information associated with your photos are backed up. The versions, previews, and metadata associated with referenced images are also backed up in the vault.
Important: Referenced images’ originals are not backed up in the vault with the library. Because the originals for referenced images are stored outside of the library, you must manage the backup and archiving of them yourself.
A typical backup system used with Aperture might look like the following:
This system backs up the Aperture library to two vaults stored on external hard disks. You routinely back up the library on one external hard disk. You use the second hard disk as a backup that you keep offsite. You can then rotate your onsite external hard disk with the offsite hard disk to keep all your vaults updated.
To set up your Aperture backup system, you need to do the following:
Determine the number of vaults you need. For example, do you need one for routine backups, one for weekly backups, and one for offsite storage?
Determine the number of hard disks you need for routine backups.
Determine the number of hard disks you’ll use for storing backups offsite.
Connect your hard disk drives to your computer.
Open Aperture and create the vaults you need, assigning a hard disk to each vault.
Update the new, empty vaults with copies of the Aperture library.
Disconnect one of the vault hard disks and take it to an offsite location for safekeeping.
When planning the amount of storage space you’ll need, estimate the amount of disk space needed to hold your existing digital images (photos you plan to import into Aperture) and the amount of space you might need for new projects. For example, RAW images typically require 8 to 25 or more megabytes (MB) of disk space per file. Estimating the number of photos in a typical project and the number of projects you usually create in a year, you can make a rough estimate of what might represent a year’s storage space.

My MacBook Pro hard drive is almost full and I wish to store my Aperture Library on an external drive, how do I do this and is the use of USB2 suitable or do I need to use a Firewire external hard drive?

My MacBook Pro hard drive is almost full and I wish to store my Aperture Library on an external drive, how do I do this and is the use of USB2 suitable or do I need to use a Firewire external hard drive?

You'll get better performance if you use a Firewire hard drive (especially if you buy a 7200 RPM drive). Firewire's IO speed is significantly faster than USB 2. USB 2 has a theoretical max speed of 480 Mbps except that it has extremely high over-head. The fastest speeds you can typically get are about 300 Mbps. Firewire, on the other hand, has very little overhead. The fastest speeds you can get are very nearly 800 Mbps. You will typically be constrained by the maximum read/write speed of the drive, not the speed of the I/O on the Firewire bus. Now if you had one of those nice shiny new Macs with the Thunderbolt I/O and a Thunderbolt drive (Light Peak) ... I think they alter space and time so that your data arrives before you know you want it.
Also... unless you want to buy a solid state drive (very expensive), try to keep your hard drives from becoming much more than about 60% full if you want great performance. A nearly "full" hard drive is, on average, only about half as fast as the same hard drive when nearly empty.
USB 2 will work perfectly fine... just not as fast.
Also... it's much safer to move the entire Aperture library than to "relocate masters". Your images must be managed. You can Aperture manage them, or you can manage them. But someone has to manage them. If you "relocate" them so that they are no longer stored inside the Aperture library then you'll need to work out a system of how you decide to organize things and it's critically important that you don't start moving files around or deleting things without Aperture's knowledge. If you do, you'll break the links to your masters and start having problems with missing masters. If you have Aperture manage the library then you don't need to worry about any of that stuff.... it's safer.
Do make backups (use the Aperture Vault or use some other backup program, but make sure you back up your work if you care about it.) There are only two kinds of hard drives in the world: (1) those that have failed and (2) those that are going to fail. There are no exceptions to this rule. Hard drives are cheap. Backup software is built into Aperture and into your Mac.

What is the best way to copy aperture library on to external hard drive? I am getting a message that say's "There was an error opening the database. The library could not be opened because the file system of the library's volume is unsupported".

What is the best way to copy aperture library on to external hard drive? I am getting a message that say's "There was an error opening the database. The library could not be opened because the file system of the library's volume is unsupported". What does that mean? I am trying to drag libraries (with metadata) to external HD...wondering what the best way to do that is?

Kirby Krieger wrote:
Hi Shane. Not much in the way of thoughts - - but fwiw:
How is the drive attached?
Can you open large files on the drive with other programs?
Are you running any drive compression or acceleration programs (some drives arrive with these installed)?
Can you reformat the drive and try again?
Hi Kirby,
I attached the UltraMax Plus with a USB cable. The UltraMax powers the cable so power is not an issue. I can open other files. Also, there is 500GB of files on the drive so I cannot re-format it. Although, I noted I could import the entire Aperture Library. However, I do not want to create a duplicate on my machine because that would be defeating the purpose of the external drive.
Thanks,
Shane

How do you export aperture library to external harddrive?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Im trying to save my entire Aperture library to an external harddrive. What are my options other than using Time Machine? Thanks

Managed or Referenced Library?
Assuming it's a Managed library:
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit Aperture
2. Copy the Aperture Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching Aperture. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
If you're using a Referenced Library then you'll need to relocate the Masters first.
Regards
TD

Setting up Aperture Library

Is there a way to have your Aperture library set up automatically like iPhoto where each photo gets individually copied to your hard drive rather than being clumped into one big "Aperture Library".
I'd like to backup the library but I don't feel like copying my entire Aperture Library over to my hard drive every time. Thanks.

You can run a Referenced Library with Aperture. Read the manual or check out any of the several hundred threads on the forum that deal with this issue - there's one almost every day.
Of course, you don't need to run a Referenced Library to make backing up easy. Simply use any app that does Incremental back Ups. There are lots of those: DejaVu, Chronosync are two, but there are a lot more. Search on MacUpdate
Regards
TD

Formatted disk drive: How to rebuild Aperture library?

Last night I thought I was formatting a USB drive, and instead formatted my Drobo containing my entire Aperture library. Even now, 24 hours later, I break into a cold sweat thinking about it. 1.5Tb of images, my life's work, wiped.
I am going to Drive Savers on Monday, and believe based on my initial experiments that they will be able to recover at least some of the files. But I think that the drive structure is lost...
If this is the case, is there any way to reconstruct my Aperture data from the component files absent the directory structure and file names?
Please?

"Your life's work" in only one place without a backup? 'nuf said, now you know better. *Even redundant storage is no replacement for a proper backup!*
IF Drive Savers can salvage your data, they may also be able to save the structure (Aperture database). Hopefully, your initial experiments didn't write to the drive in question much. Once you noticed the foul-up, you should have ceased all writing to that disk immediately to preserve any chance of forensic salvage. If you can get enough of the Aperture database restored, you will likely need to rebuild the database (command-option and launch) on Aperture startup of your library.
Supposing that Drive Savers can't restore the Aperture database, you'll only likely be able to reconstruct your data by manually reverse-engineering the salvaged photos and available data elements (structure and extended attributes).
Do you happen to have a Time Machine backup anywhere?
I HIGHLY recommend investment into some online storage or other legitimate backup scheme when you have so much value in your data. NEVER in only one place, no matter how redundant. With a Mac Pro, you can fit up to FOUR hard drives internally, at least one should have had an Aperture vault or copy of the library.
HTH.

Can I reference my Aperture Library on my desktop from my laptop?

I'd like to be able to bring all of my previews/thumbnails with me on my laptop wherever I go. Can I reference my entire Aperture Library on my desktop from my laptop? Also, if I make any adjustments or new versions on my laptop, will they automatically be synchronized to my Aperture Library on my desktop when I reconnect to the network?
Thanks

You can make a copy of your library and move it to your laptop. If your desktop library has previews enabled then your notebook will be setup with previews. I don't know of any way to have your desktop and notebook share a library that's internal to the desktop. You can have a networked drive that houses your masters and they can be common. I keep a second library on a portable drive and update it weekly so my notebook is upto date. It has been established as the library for the notebook.
Jeff

ITunes doesn't see Aperture Library - iMovie doesn't see Aperture Library

Issues:
Nearly all of my videos in the Aperture/iPhoto library do not show up when I select iPhoto library option in iMovie and iMovie is unable to locate them in any other way. Sometimes the option to select the iPhoto library is completely missing.
iTunes does not recognize my Aperture library, and I get the following message:
"Your Aperture Library could not be found. Open the preferences window in Aperture and enable the preference to share previews with other applications." After reading through forums and multiple Genius Bar appointments here is most of what I have done:
Created multiple new Aperture libraries, selected them in Aperture, rebooted, switched back and forth - Note: iTunes DID recognize the new blank libraries
Booted Aperture with the Command + Option keys and run all three options to repair permssions and even rebuilt the database
Booted Aperture with the Option key and selected the library I was using all along (this worked for someone in a forum)
Opened iPhoto (not Aperture) and selected an option to share photos
Run "Verify Disk Permissions" many times under Disk Utility
Run "Repair Disk Permissions" many times under Disk Utility
Reinstalled OSX
Reinstalled Aperture
Reinstalled iTunes
Reinstalled iMovie
Run a virus and malware scan (no issues)
Verified that Aperture was set to share previews and had a Genius go through all of my options to ensure they were correct in iTunes, Aperture, and iPhoto
Have ran "Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs" from the Command + Option + R recovery partition multiple times. Each time it just hangs for hours, the latest attempt ran for over 24 hours before I finally stopped it.
Oh yes, and I found and deleted the file com.apple.iApps.plist
None of these things fixed either of my issues. According the the Genius at my last appointment, now I have to call Apple Care and pay to get support. I must have misunderstood what the Genius Bar was about when I bought my Mac and why I purchased the One to One training. Before I call Apple Care, I was hoping someone might have run across this and can help me.
I asked the Genius if I now need to just create a new Aperture Library and move all of my content to it (that was the last resort for someone in a forum); however, he was concerned that even if this might work that I probably have deeper permission and/or other issues that need to be addressed and that doing so would not fix the root cause.
Thanks for taking the time to read through this issue.

Understood. I thought perhaps the period meant that I was finished and just needed to call Apple Care and fork out the fee.
The formats are primarily .MOV straight from the iPhone. Since going to a Mac, I have pretty much given up on using my Sony Handycam for family videos due to the pains of having to locate, identify, convert, and export AVCHD video to watch on Apple TV. It is just too easy to take video with my iPhone and import it and immediately watch it, although the quality is nothing close to a dedicated video camera, especially indoors and in lower light. All of the video formats in Aperture are supported and most all of my older home videos and Sony Handycam videos are sitting on an external drive (hoping that one day I will have the time to figure out a decent workflow to access them after I work all of the bugs out of iMovie). Great thought though.
All my content is managed. After a handful of One-to-One sessions at the Apple Store, I finally learned that you could not reference videos in iMovie and had to either have them in the iMovie Events directory or in iPhoto (at least that was what she said). Their solution was to import the videos into iPhoto so they could be easily accessed in iMovie. After I had issues mentioned in this post their solution was for me to purchase Aperture that could handle larger libraries. This was supposed to fix the issue and allow iMovie to see my videos. When that didn't work they said that I needed to purchase Final Cut Pro. I'm just a Dad who wants to make a few memorable home movies for his family and I don't think that I should have to purchase a $300 application, especially after paying a premium for my Mac and the iLife software, which I am deeply regretting. But I digress.
I have repaired permissions again and am in the process of repairing the library and will rebuild it again if that doesn't work. It is taking longer so I won't be able to post the results until a later time. Definitely worth a shot to try this again.
If this doesn't work I will take the time to create a new Aperture library. Like I previously mentioned, this was the last resort for another gentlemen who had a similar issue. After doing this it might explain why the "Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs" from the Command + Option + R recovery partition is getting hung up and not working. I'll post the results at a later date. If I could save just one person the time, gas, and stress I've experienced it would be worth it.
One additional question? I read a gentlemen's post that passionately argued against ever using iPhoto, Aperture, or iMovie to ever manage video files. He suggested using folders and a file naming system similar to what I used when I was on a PC using Adobe Elements. Do you have any thoughts on that?
For my situation, I have two concerns:
I'm afraid this would not allow me to watch the videos on Apple TV as simply as I can now (although I don't know this to be the case for certain). If the videos aren't in my photo library, I'm not sure how I would be able to access them through Apple TV.
Since I'm a proud Dad I have hundreds of video files spanning many years, so I also don't want to lose the ability to quickly peruse my event library and find content that I want to import into a project in iMovie. At one point I imported some video files to edit that weren't stored in iMovie, and I could only see the file name and date and had to guess if there was content on it that I wanted. When you have hundreds of clips like I do that isn't practical.
He argued that these programs were never meant to manage content and worked much more efficiently using this method. I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts.
Thanks again.

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