Q: Importing library to Aperture 3.3: not enough free space

There seems to be a problem with your iPhoto Library. Have you tried to rebuild your iPhoto Library before importing into Aperture?

Launch iPhoto 9.3 with the opt-cmd-key combination (⌥⌘) firmly held down to open the First Aid panel and select "Rebuild Database": if this succeeds try the import again.

Regards

Léonie

Hello Si,

I am really not sure about it, but since it is an iPhoto Library I'd use iPhoto to repair and rebuild it.

If you have enough disk space I'd make a copy of the library and try the rebuild on the copy.

If you could open the iPhoto Library in Aperture and rebuild it, then you could try it the other way round: Import your Aperture Library into the iPhoto Library, and then export the resulting libraryas a new Aperture Library.

This is certainly a bug. Please use the "Provide iPhoto Feedback" menu entry in the iPhoto main menu bar (iPhoto > Provide iPhoto Feedback) to send a bug report to Apple.

Regards

Léonie

I'm having the same problem with Aperture 3.3 requiring a huge amount of free disk space (1345gb) to import an iPhoto library (48gb). Repair / rebuild did not help.

Just want to chime in: Same Problem. Solutions are appreciated.

I will chime in as well. When I try to import my iPhoto library to Aperture it tells me:

"221.95 GB is needed, but only 149.09 GB is available."

This can't be correct because my iPhoto library is only 73 GB and my hard drive has 236 GB available. Ugh.

Solutions are indeed appreciated.

When you import an iPhoto library Aperture will first convert it, and that requires extra space, like an upgrade - the release note state:

Aperture temporarily uses extra space on your hard drive during the upgrade process. This is for the purpose of backing up critical library info and insuring the integrity of your data during upgrade. If you don't have adequate space on your hard drive to accommodate the upgrade, Aperture will display a warning dialog. You may need to move your library to a different hard drive with more space in order to upgrade it, and then move it back to the original drive when the upgrade is complete. Any space used by Aperture during the upgrade is released and made available to you again once the upgrade has finished.

This process seems to be buggy right now; so your best bet would be to avoid this step.

Open your iPhoto library in Aperture, but do not import it. Then try to export it as a new library - this will be an Aperture library - then import the converted library.

Ok, so I had the same problem and found a workable solution.

My older library which would not "merge" with my newer library would indeed open fine on its own in Aperture.

My solution was to switch to the older library and then import my new library (as opposed to merging into my current/new library, which is what this thread was about for me).

Anyways, it took a while, but it worked. Keywords, albums all there, star ratings etc.

Hi,

i had your version of iphoto 09

and try to import to aperture 3.3

it does not allow me to import to aperture,

because iphoto 09 is not compatible with aperture.

i have to buy iphoto 11, upgrade my iphoto library in iphoto 11, and then import it to aperture.

you cannot import directly from iphoto 09 to aperture 3.3

because the format is different.

thats what my problem and solution was.

maybe in your case, you need to software update your iphoto and aperture

and that will later show you in aperture that in fact it is the format not the disk space.

i know this does not give you answer, im just sharing what happen on my case, and hope you can find something of use. cheers

My solution was to drag the photos manually from one application to the other. My Aperture library was relatively small--less than 1000 photos, vs. my iPhoto library which had 10,000+ -- so I opted to merge my Aperture library into the iPhoto library as follows:

1. I wanted to preserve my albums, so I transferred those first. For every album in Aperture I created a corresponding album in iPhoto. I then opened Aperture and iPhoto side-by-side, selected all photos in each Aperture album and dragged them directly to the corresponding album in iPhoto.

2. Next I transferred ALL the photos in Aperture to iPhoto by selecting all of them and dragging them to iPhoto, choosing not to duplicate those that had already been transferred as part of the albums.

3. At this point all my photos were in my iPhoto library. I quit iPhoto and instructed Aperture to use my iPhoto library. I backed up the iPhoto library and dragged the Aperture library to the trash.

My solution was to drag the photos manually from one application to the other.

Hi darenrobbins,

This certainly works, but a caution:

By dragging from Aperture to iPhoto you only transfer the previews, not the originals. So better make sure, that you are now satisfied with the image resolution that you have in iPhoto after dragging.

For example, I just dragged an image from Aperture to iPhoto; it is a jpeg with 3648 × 2736 (10.0 MP) - in iPhoto it was imported as 1824x1368; the size I have set for previews.

InAperture, before dragging:

Dragged to iPhoto:

So check, if you have not lost image quality by your transfer method.

Regards

Léonie

I agree with Leonie, in Mac, its never great idea to move things by dragging.

Aperture and iPhoto keeps your album no matter how you merge them together,

i still have mine.

what happen was

1. on Aperture, i switch library to iPhoto library

2. on Aperture, i import photos from my other iphoto libraries.

3. on Aperture, i created Aperture library, and imported all iPhoto libraries into it. Photo Books still saved.

iphoto photo books cannot be shown on aperture, but you can open it on iPhoto.

always import, merge, switch library with the apple programs.