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RaglanSurf

RaglanSurf

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Hi,

I've just got myself Aperture 2 and a new hard drive and now I have to start the daunting task of organising my photos.

I want to move all the files from various drives onto the new drive but I want to keep all the photos as ordinary files, RAW and jpeg etc but be able to tweek and catalogue them all using Aperture but without Aperture making duplicate files or hiding them in its library.

What's the most efficient and sensible way of doing this?

Thanks
 
Anyone?
 
Sorry havent a clue, bought Aperture 3, tried it & it loaded stuff I dint want to catalogue so deleted the catalogue, it then deleted all the pictures, fortunately I had backed up an hour before, so been worried about using it since
 
you need to import them as referenced files. Not library managed. However, any alterations you make will only be visible in aperture or if you export a file. Or put in another way, if you just click on the file in finder and load to preview, any changes will not be seen as aperture stores the amendments so that the original files remains unchanged.

Hope that helps
 
Thanks Natjag, I kinda knew what I wanted to do but didn't know the terminology. I just want to end up with multiple versions scattered all over the place.
 
ding76uk said:
Would it not be easier to set Aperture to manage files and set the location as your new drive? Then you could import them from the old drives and let aperture do the hard work for you.

Would make much more sense IMHO.
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Sorry to appear such a numptie but how do i achieve that.
 
The way I do it is...

I import my images from my memory card to my external HD which i called my Photography HD.. The file Structure I have on that is year, month and dat. so for example for my Canon 40D memory Card I have it as Canon 40D / 2010 / 04 / 01 .... When they are copied off the Memory card to my External... I then go to aperture and import the images to aperture leaving the images in the current location...
 
Thanks Andrew, I think that's what I'll have to do. I have all my digital shots + all the old stuff I'm slowly scanning in from the last 35 years of photography.

I think it may take a while :)
 
No Prob it really is the best way I think of and I been doing it like this for ages... The way I look at it is that I will have all Raw files untouch in a nice file structure that can easily be backed up to DVDs or BluRay as storage.. Also copied to another Hard Drive. So I just use Aperture to edit the photos and library them to easily browse them... I have a Vault set up on aperture too to backup my Aperture Library. It been flawless and I am thinking of getting Aperture 3 soon..
 
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