Newby 'duplicates' question

Hello Ardwa,

Welcome to the user-supported Aperture discussion group.

Glad to hear that you imported the library without a hitch. However, I'm not sure that's true considering your follow-up question!

Looking back at some files/projects,sorry now I find many of my images marked as duplicates even though they have original frame numbers/and have not been edited previous to import or since import.

In what way are they marked as duplicate?

There is no master for them either and no separately filed master on other drive or backup-so far.

Do you mean Aperture displays the little "badge" telling you the master is missing?

So, this means you imported as "referenced" photos -- you chose to "keep pictures in their original locations". Is that correct?

If so, where is that original location? Aperture should not have lost the masters unless you moved them or disconnected the drive on which they were stored.

nathan

Not disastrous but annoying to say the least.

Well, if your masters are missing, it may be disastrous!

nathan

Ardwa,

That badge means there are keywords applied. It does not imply they are duplicates. Aperture doesn't actually check for duplicates.

In what way did you import your photos?

Do not know the 'no master' marking, but nothing other than the image is visible at the moment.

Can you explain this further? In your first post, you said your masters were missing, so I asked if you knew that because they were marked with the "missing masters badge". How do you know the masters are missing?

nathan

Not sure where to go from here. Your symptoms don't sound like anything I've ever seen.

Did you by chance do multiple imports from the same place?

nathan