Settings changed on Aperture, cannot find RAW files
Somehow when I deleted preference files as Aperture was acting buggy, now my RAW files are being stores in the Aperture Library instead of in Pictures where I can easily copy them to external drive.
I have looked for a couple of months and cannot find them on my hard drive and when I try to copy the Aperture Library to external drive I still cannot view and delete separately the RAW files that I want to handle manually.
Would anyone be able to tell me how to FIND AND VIEW my RAW photos in Aperture library.
when I read the user manual about making vaults etc., it said that files later deleted would then be delete in backup files when I went to back up again.
I do NOT want any program doing anything for me automatically or in a way I cannot manually control.
After buying both Apple Care and Pro Care I cannot express how upset and disappointed I am with the lack of phone help ... I have the registration number and obviously Apple has my order in their files and now they refuse to spent time helping me on the phone.
I do photography for a living, NOT computers, and I think that the attitude of some of the people at Apple who are supposed to be helping is beyond arrogant and rude.
I have spent hours trying to get this resolved with customer service at Apple and cannot seem to get help with Aperture when I need it. That makes Aperture extremely over priced when I cannot get help.
So I have come to this list to see if there is anyone here who can help me get this issue resolved. It took me 15 minutes to get him to explain how the photos are now saved in Aperture Library instead of Pictures, all he kept wanted to do it to give me page number of the instruction manual.
If I put my photos in vaults and the vault are updated when I delete photo from Aperture, I want to be able to KEEP copies so that I CAN safely delete them off my computer.
I have a 1 TB external drive for the very purpose of keeping photos, and for two months I cannot find the photos to copy and my computer is nearly full.
Thanks for any help on this.
Fay Kelley
faykelley@earthlink.net
Flagstaff, AZ
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.11), Aperture 2.1.3