Dragging images from aperture to finder folder

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Dragging images from aperture to finder folder

I needed to temporarily move out some photos that were mixed in with an event I had and did so by dragging into a folder on my hard drive. Unfortunately, I did not discover until after I deleted those photos in Aperture that this process significantly reduced my file sizes. For example, some of these photos were from 2002 and only 1 mb or so in size and now are 100-200kb in my finder folder. I have searched everywhere and cannot find a explanation for this.

PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Jan 27, 2011 12:56 PM

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rwboyer

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Jan 27, 2011 1:17 PM in response to lurchtt123

You need a little education on file management in Aperture.

I have a bunch of stuff here [http://photo.rwboyer.com]

A brief explanation of what happened is that when you drag photos out of Aperture what you are doing is just grabbing the generated previews NOT the original masters. Hence the "reduction" in file size. This actually makes sense once you have a handle on how Aperture does things.

RB

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Answer 2

Jan 27, 2011 2:23 PM in response to lurchtt123

All may not be lost. When you deleted the masters from Aperture they were place in the system trash. If by some chance you haven't emptied the system trash yet they will be there.

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lurchtt123 Author

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Jan 28, 2011 10:30 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

Thank you very much. This helps and I understand what I did wrong. Fortunately, I was able to recover the originals with a data recovery program I have. Live and learn.

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Jan 28, 2011 10:33 AM in response to lurchtt123

Well you learned something and got your images back.

A win win!

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