Control Bar Button Sets Drop-down shows non-existing Sets "Wedding", "Sports", "Animals"

Hello Kirby,

thank you for the new thread. I am not sure, if the similar symptoms we both observe, are caused by the same problem. My Button sets vanish, when I reimport images with keywords attached, I'll explain in more detail later.

S/he

And thank you for the doubt. A neat way to deal with unknown gender - but I hate to see that you have to violate your grammar. To give you a clue, my first name is Léonie, not Léon or Leo. Can you work it out? 🙂

Cheers

Léonie

Hi, Kirby, some first observations:

• Most of the times I can switch between Aperture LIbraries and the keyword control button sets are o.k.
• However, I get "Wedding-Sports-Animals" button sets, whenever I switch from a library and the current button set is set to a selection, that the other library does not have.

In the example above I previously opened my main Aperture LIbrary, set to the button set "lectures" and opened my remote sensing library, that has no button set "lectures", and then I see the infamous "Wedding-Sports-Animals" buttons. I never noticed this behaviour when switching between libraries, because I try to have consistent button sets in all libraries.

- Léonie

And here is where Aperture stores the name of the button set, to be opened:

Looking into ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Aperture.plist with Xcode I see the name of the button set, that has been used when quitting Aperture bound to the tag "SelectedPresetGroupName"

I see no easy way to edit this tag before opening Aperture on a different library, short of really desperate measures, like:

• opening your most frequently used Aperture library
• creating one default set of buttons, that is defined in all of your libraries
• selecting this button set
• quitting Aperture and locking / write protecting the com.apple.Aperture.plist file, so that this tag cannot be changed again.

This seems to work, but a side effect would be, that the default Aperture Library cannot be changed; on opening Aperture you would always get the same library by default.

Cheers

Léonie

P.S. Tonight I'll try to track down the hiding place of these "Wedding-Sports-Animals".

It seems to me ( 🙂 ) that the setting "SelectedPresetGroupName" should be saved with the Library, not with the application.

Exactly! I understand, why this setting it is in "Preferences" - that is the place where the current setup of the Aperture window is stored, but at least there should be an individual "SelectedPresetGroupName" for each of the libraries. Apple missed to change that, when they allowed the use of multiple libraries, and that is a design flaw.

BTW: that is a nice round number of points you've got today, congratulations!

That's an interesting discovery; this triad seems to be so important to Apple that they even localized it. I don't have a "WatermarkImages" in my User Library (do you have a Watermark plug-in installed?), but I nevertheless see these three buttons, so I assume they are also defined somewhere in the Aperture application package.

Hello Kirby,

I am beginning to feel left out - not a single localization file or preset file on my mac containing that triad "Wedding-Sports-Animals". Since I do not have your "Easy Find", I had to fall back on the Terminal to search with "locate" and "find", but nothing. This default set seems to be hard coded in the Aperture executable.

Cheers

Léonie

Since I could not find any localization files with "Wedding", "Sports", and "Animals" on my Mac, I was curious what would happen, if I changed the language to german. Right now my Mac is speaking pidgin to me; part of the interface is in english, part is german. And - oh wonder - the triad now appears in german, and I have no idea where these strings may be hidden.

I have no idea why I have a copy of the Aperture application in that "Watermarks" folder.

Because of a recent power failure and subsequent reconstruction work? Perhaps the date modified can tell you when that addition to your user library happened.

• ...Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/FactoryKeywords.strings
• ...Aperture.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/FactoryKeywordSets.strings

Thanks for the pointer, now I found those files too in the application file: the stirngs for the predefinded keywords in the keyword HUD and for some predefinded groups, but I still cannot find any files that define and create that particular triad of buttons.

/* Localizable keyword strings */

/* Keep in sync with FactoryKeywordSets.strings */

...

"Photojournalism\tPhoto essay" = "Photo essay";

"Photojournalism\tPortrait" = "Portrait";

"Photojournalism\tSequence" = "Sequence";

"Photojournalism\tSports" = "Sports";

"Photojournalism\tSports\tAction" = "Action";

"Photojournalism\tSports\tFeature" = "Feature";

"Photojournalism\tSports\tIndividual" = "Individual";

"Photojournalism\tSports\tTeam" = "Team";

"Stock categories" = "Stock categories";

"Stock categories\tAbstract" = "Abstract";

"Stock categories\tAgriculture" = "Agriculture";

...

/* Localizable keyword sets */

/* Keep in sync with FactoryKeywords.strings */

"group.0.name" = "Photo Descriptors";

"group.0.preset.0.name" = "Action";

"group.0.preset.0.tag.0" = "Action";

"group.0.preset.0.tag.0.parent" = "Image type";

"group.0.preset.1.name" = "Portrait";

"group.0.preset.1.tag.0" = "Portrait";

"group.0.preset.1.tag.0.parent" = "Image type";

"group.0.preset.2.name" = "Landscape";

"group.0.preset.2.tag.0" = "Landscape";

"group.0.preset.2.tag.0.parent" = "Image type";

"

...

- Léonie