Clicking on "Photos" under LIBRARY only displays results for one project

Hi Jim. Try this. If it works, thank Frank Caggiano 🙂 .

Hi Kirby,

the "Double Double Reverse Caggiano" is such a neat little trick. It helped me more than once already.

I tried - just for historical reasons - to find the original post where it first was suggested, but I never found it. Do you still have a reference to it?

Cheers

Léonie

History is a messy thing 🙂 . Here's the first (and only) mention I could find:

Helpful AnswerRe: Stacked photo shows in "Photos" but not in "Project"

My recollection is that this was something Frank figured out but it wasn't understood as broadly useful until after it was figured out. Then, at some time later, "all of a sudden" the problem seemed obvious, and the solution was at hand. I think it got posted several times before I named it after its creator so people would know whom to thank for this simple, elegant, and effective solution 😉 .

Jim -- It's bugly. There is little to understand: in some circumstances, Aperture allows you to add an invisible filter to "Photos" view. The Frank's clever maneuver allows you to remove it.

If you have a moment, file a bug report (from within Aperture, use "Aperture→Provide Aperture Feedback").

Cheers.

Thank you, Kirby,

so thru the mists of time I now have the documents to two important historic moments, the first (still known) description of the method and the magic moment when it was given its proper name and introduced to the community as a versatile procedure. 🙂

Cheers

Léonie

It will also do the same thing with the Flagged album. But there I've actually found it useful, modifying it so that only flagged images or a certain rating or color label go into the Flagged album.

Just remember to clear it after you're done!

Of course you could just create your own Flagged smart album to do the same thing but if its just a temporary grouping doing it this way keeps you from having to clutter up the library with temporary smart albums that you then have to delete.

Fire-starter!

😁.

More seriously: why not just use the built-in (two-click) filters in Flagged View? The problem isn't creating the filtered group, it's clearing the filter.

Maybe I have my dumb-hat on today. It's weird -- when I put it on, it becomes invisible and I can't tell if I'm wearing it.

(I did manage to once set my Flagged View to filter for "Not flagged" ... using one of Gomez invisible filters. This worked as a "proof of concept", but I just couldn't find a use for it.)

I find it useful for those X and (Y or Z) situations. The X is the invisible filter on the Flagged album and then I use the filter in the Flagged Browser to do the Y or Z.

Again you can do this by first getting all the X's and making an album for them and then doing the Y or Z on the album but if its something I'm going to be working with for a while and changing the X I find it easier to just tuck the X away in the Flagged album. Else I need to keep making albums with the new X's.

But then I just got back from a 50 mile ride and my glycogen is a tad low so my brain may not be working up to snuff right now 😝

More history:

While searching for the original reference I noticed that the way older messages are presented does change the context of a message in a funny way - the avatar and points are not the same as on the day the message was posted originally.

This post by "Gomez" Re: Help im a newie and your reply now are displayed as a story of success, decorated with a beautiful avatar and level 5, and no longer as a dream of great things to come.

Jim, do you see your images when you select a project, but not in the Photo View? Or are they hidden in all Library items?

Probably you checked the Trash and the "Rejected" smart album? 😉

-- Léonie

But that definitely looks like the "invisible filter" problem again. Try the "Double Double Reverse Caggiano" again (maybe the Triple Triple Reverse Caggiano is needed), if that does not help, try to set a new visible filter for the Photos View:

Select the Photos View, type Command(⌘)-F, in the HUD clear all rules, click "add rule" and add a new rule of your own to force the reevaluation of the filter. If some images are visible again, remove the new rule and clear the filter completely. Sometimes this simple trick helps to clear an invisible filter.