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Q: Somehow one of my Aperture's Project shows all my 52000 photos

Hi there,

 

At the first time I imported this Project had about 2000 photos. But somehow when I came back to it after weeks, this Project shows 52000 photos in this Project. I found out that is all the photos into my all projects.

 

I thought they were duplicated photos. But when I delete some photos in this troublesome Project, that photos in the right project was gone too. It seems to me that this problem Project links all the photos to it. When I import any new photos into another named album, the problem Project also got the newly imported linked to it. Very annoying indeed.

 

It is strange that when I go to 'Filter' and select 'Show all'. There is no photos displayed in this Project whereas the normal projects do show photos. Again when I did the right click at that Project and select 'Show Project Info' and are 2000 photos as it should be. But I do not know why it appears all my 52000 photos in the Project.

 

FYI - I am on iMac with OSX 10.8.4 and Aperture 3.4.5. I has been using Aperture for 3 years and it just happened lately.

 

I think it happened when I upgraded it to the latest version.

 

Could anyone please help and advise ?

 

Best regards,

 

Chat

Aperture 3, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), Aperture 3.4.5

Posted on Jul 27, 2013 9:20 AM

by léonie,Solvedanswer
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Chat, what is shown, when you enable "Show number of versions for projects and albums" in the Aperture preferences > Appearance panel?

Screen Shot 2013-07-28 at 16.08.13MESZ.PNG

Does that show the same number of items as the Project info? I sometimes see different numbers in the sidebar.

Has your Aperture library once been an iPhoto library? Can it be that it contains photos that have been hidden in iPhoto?

 

Have you already tried to repair your Aperture library? This looks like the databse file inside the library may be corrupted. If you have not done so already, I'd repair the database, and try the other First Aid options as well. And I'd update the backup of the library before doing any trouble shooting. (Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library: Aperture 3 User Manual)

 

It could also be a problem of broken preferences files, causing more items to beselected than you are seeing.  In that case it would help to remove  the Aperture's user preferences from the User Library as described here:

Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics   http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805

Posted on Jul 28, 2013 7:21 AM

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Q: Somehow one of my Aperture's Project shows all my 52000 photos

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 27, 2013 11:17 AM in response to toronaldo
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    Jul 27, 2013 11:17 AM in response to toronaldo

    Chat,

    that simply should not be possible. It looks like one of your projects would mimic the "Photos" view. As you very well know, as a long-time Aperture user, projects are disjoint - each image is in exactly one project, and deleting from one project will delete from other albums, but not other projects. So if two projects appear to be linked this way, there is something dreadfully wrong with your Aperture library.

     

    Do you have a backup from the time, before this problem occurred? Then don't overwrite this backup by new backups.

     

    Where is your Aperture library located? And is it referenced or managed?

    Could you please post a screenshot showing the Library Inspector with the giant project and the the other project that it is linked to?

     

    --Léonie

  • by toronaldo,

    toronaldo toronaldo Jul 28, 2013 5:47 AM in response to léonie
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    Jul 28, 2013 5:47 AM in response to léonie

    Hi Leonie,

     

    Thank you very much for responding. It is strange right ? I do have back up but it's gonna take my a lot of time checking. I have two iMac and many projects are still in my old iMac.

     

    Please my screenshots with my note below.

     

    In my first screenshot, you are looking at all the projects at the left. Every photos on those projects are linked to the Project circled in pink.

     

    I tried cleaning my computer cache, switching on/off and also deleted that Project (the deleting time took a while as it was removing all of my photos. However, I reput it back from Trash when I saw it dragged all of my photos to Trash too).

    001.jpg

     

     

    Not sure this is normal or not. I think it's not because the normal projects shows what I put in the filtered box.

    002.jpg

     

     

     

    Chat

  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Jul 28, 2013 7:21 AM in response to toronaldo
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    Jul 28, 2013 7:21 AM in response to toronaldo

    Chat, what is shown, when you enable "Show number of versions for projects and albums" in the Aperture preferences > Appearance panel?

    Screen Shot 2013-07-28 at 16.08.13MESZ.PNG

    Does that show the same number of items as the Project info? I sometimes see different numbers in the sidebar.

    Has your Aperture library once been an iPhoto library? Can it be that it contains photos that have been hidden in iPhoto?

     

    Have you already tried to repair your Aperture library? This looks like the databse file inside the library may be corrupted. If you have not done so already, I'd repair the database, and try the other First Aid options as well. And I'd update the backup of the library before doing any trouble shooting. (Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library: Aperture 3 User Manual)

     

    It could also be a problem of broken preferences files, causing more items to beselected than you are seeing.  In that case it would help to remove  the Aperture's user preferences from the User Library as described here:

    Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics   http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3805

  • by toronaldo,

    toronaldo toronaldo Jul 28, 2013 10:01 AM in response to léonie
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    Jul 28, 2013 10:01 AM in response to léonie

    Thanks Léonie. I am reparing the database now. It's gonna take a while.

     

    I'll try the ""Show number of versions for projects and albums" after this process is done. I should have done it first but got a quick hand on the repairing tip.

     

    I forgot to answer to your first message that all of my photos are managed in Aperture, not referenced.

     

    Some of my albums once were iPhoto library but it was more than 2 years that I stopped using iPhoto and migrated to Aperture. Everything went fine until now .

     

    I'll keep you updated.

     

    Cheers,

     

    Chat

  • by toronaldo,

    toronaldo toronaldo Jul 28, 2013 10:56 AM in response to léonie
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    Jul 28, 2013 10:56 AM in response to léonie

    Hi again Leonie,

     

    Reparing the database has solved my problem.

     

    Appreciate your help Leonie. BIG thanks.

     

    Chat

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 28, 2013 10:57 AM in response to toronaldo
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    Jul 28, 2013 10:57 AM in response to toronaldo

    Some of my albums once were iPhoto library but it was more than 2 years that I stopped using iPhoto and migrated to Aperture. Everything went fine until now .

    I asked for the iPhoto history, because Aperture cannot show photos that have been hidden in iPhoto, but they will be counted in the projects, and then numbers may not match.

     

    Good luck

     

    Léonie

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 28, 2013 11:10 AM in response to toronaldo
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    Jul 28, 2013 11:10 AM in response to toronaldo

    You are welcome! 

     

    I am glad that repairing could solve this.  That was really a weird library corruption!

     

    Léonie