Comments on: 8 Steps to Developing a Better Workflow in Aperture

By: Ceci

Ceci — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:01:46 +0000

Thanks for that link, Nico. Good article and the suggestion that a managed library could become huge is a valid one.

I’m sticking with the referenced system.

By: Nico

Nico — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:42:28 +0000

I had been using Aperature but the library got deleted – no idea how. At the time, I had Apples encryption enabled, so as I shutdown Apple, I get the chance to clear items in the vault (recover diskspace)

As I cleared the vault and later that evening rebooted my Apple, I found I had loads of disk space all of a sudden and ofcourse the Aperature library had vanished.

So the advice is make a copy of the library.
1. DO a search in spotlight and then
2. Right click (control-click) on your Aperture Library and select “Show Package Contents”
3. On the window that opens, go to Library, and you will see all your projects.
(Similarly, select the desired project.approject, and right click again “Show Package Contents”.)

So backup the library so you do not loose years of meta taging your photoes etc.

An another note, here is a link on Storing photos External v Aperture Library
http://aperture.maccreate.com/2009/08/31/introduction-to-referenced-vs-managed-in-aperture/

By: Ceci

Ceci — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:39:16 +0000

Thanks for the link. I think Thawley’s system is pretty straight forward as far as importing. I like that he keeps his library on a separate hard drive.

I just shot almost 2000 images this week-end at a horse show. I’m just beginning to sort out what I want to do with them. That’ll be today’s project. And probably tomorrow’s!

By: hili

hili — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:17:01 +0000

here is a link to another excellent workflow description written by john thawley

http://www.johnthawley.com/journal/2009/7/21/post-shoot-workflow-part-one-of-a-three-part-series.html

By: Trevor Sowers

Trevor Sowers — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:29:24 +0000

“@ Mark P Says: July 18th, 2009 at 12:55 am
It’s more a guess. I just lost 1yr+ of pictures and haven’t had the time to recover them and set the to referenced yet.”

How did you lose them?

If you use Vault you should be able to restore your library from that.

By: kair

kair — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:42:13 +0000

@ Mark P Says: July 18th, 2009 at 12:55 am

It’s more a guess. I just lost 1yr+ of pictures and haven’t had the time to recover them and set the to referenced yet.

By: denzil

denzil — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:24:47 +0000

very interesting read, like many others I would love to see more info regarding aperture. Anything regarding printing using aperture would be brill. DPS is really a great source of information and inspiration, keep up the good work,

Regards

By: Mark P

Mark P — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:55:41 +0000

Since I’m thinking of moving from having Aperture manage my organization to setting up a referenced system, I’d like more info on why Kari says that meta data would be lost if I need to restore anything? Are there other issues when changing to a referenced system?

By: kari

kari — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:12:03 +0000

I guess I’m disappointed that aperture does not let you use a network share to store your vaults or library. It seems that referencing your photos is a better option because you can organize your folders in the same way you would aperture but you’d lose any meta data that is associated with your pictures if you ever needed to restore anything :-(

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:08:47 +0000

I’d love to see an article about different methods of organizing within Aperture. I know a lot of people go by date folders/projects, but how do you go grab pictures from a certain event to view them?

I have a few main folders — Activities, Events, Holidays, Trips, and Miscellaneous. Within these I have projects describing the “photo shoot”. Some projects that have more than one session, like my Christmas project, will have Albums within the project to separate the different years.

This system is both good and bad for me, so I’d love to get some new ideas to help refine my organization even further.

Thanks!