RAW+JPEG Pairs: How do I delete one, but not the other?

The short answer is you can't get rid of only one part of the dual RAW+JPG master. If you really want to do that you have to import them as separate masters from the get go. Why bother deleting them? I wouldn't delete the RAW's of images you want to keep and the JPEGs are tiny.

Here is something else you might want to look at:

[http://photo.rwboyer.com/2010/02/11/aperture-3-rawjpg-part-deuxs>

RB

Export the one/ones you are keeping. Delete the Pair and re-import. Then when you import the next lot of pairs use the Separate Masters option. Allan

There's an easier way:

Open the Aperture library contents (ctrl-click, select "show pkg contents"), and navigate to masters/year/month/day/downloads, and delete the raw file(s).

You can view by kind, and delete all the raw files in a project this way; just make sure you haven't assigned any of the raw files as master.

So far, I have not observed any adverse effects to the Aperture database, but they may be coming. I always archive all the files off-line before importing to Aperture, no nothing is completely irreversible.

It would still be nice, as another poster said somewhere, to render a raw file as a new jpg master, and then delete the raw, but I use raws so rarely, that deleting the ones I don't use gives me 90% of the disk savings.