Import NEW Images in folder Only?

You could try the Do not import duplicates setting in the import window of Aperture. Users have had varying amounts of success with that depending on the changes (if any that make to the master).

You could also import into Aperture as managed that would eliminate the problem entirely. If you do not want to have managed masters you could import as managed and then relocate the masters to make them referenced.

I haven't figured out if any adjustments are lost in an accidental overwrite yet.

Don't know what this is suppose to mean or how it applies to your question.

regards

Aperture is an image manager. Your concern with the storage location of your files will fade as you adopt the practices of image-management and concurrently relax your grip on file management.

Your file management needs, once you have committed a digital negative to Aperture for management, are storage, back-up, and (when needed) retrieval. Aperture provides for all of these (both directly, by doing these, and indirectly, by allowing you to create a set-up that allows you to do the same outside of Aperture).

Why are putting your files in the Finder folder "Pictures"? Aperture provides ample file-management tools, and doesn't care where you files are, as long as they are on a local drive.

In any case, the workflow of dumping files you want to import into a Finder folder that is already populated, and then importing just those files, is (as verified by your experience) clumsy and un-sustainable. (I think that's what you're doing -- if not, sorry, and please correct me.)

You could colour tag all the images already in your pictures folder, then new items added will be easy to find as they won't have the coloured icon. However, I'd try and find a better way of doing whatever it is you are trying to achieve, it sounds like you're making it much more complicated than it needs to be.

Why not remove the dupicates from wherever you are importing from? After I import, and ensure that the import went OK, I reformat my card. No duplicates to import, here! 8^)

Frank Caggiano wrote:

You could also import into Aperture as managed that would eliminate the problem entirely.

Frank,

How does a managed Library address duplicates?

Kevin

Instead of putting the files in the pictures folder and then importing which is what is causing the problem, if he imported them from wherever they are into Aperture and then have Aperture put them in the picture folder it eliminates the problem.

Actually he could just import as referenced and do the same thing, have Aperture put them in the pictures folder.

Oh, I think I now understand. The duplicates the OP is referring to are the ones being created by first copying them to a Finder folder?

I was thinking about duplicates inside Aperture. Thinking that having a Managed Library would help eliminate importing duplicates. I assume that Managed or Referenced, duplicate issues are the same. Meaning one Library method or the other isn't really any better at handling duplicates.

Correct?

To quickly find the newest images that you want to import, sort them in the Import panel:

Set the Browser to list view, and then click at the header of the date column, to sort the image files by date - ascending or descending. Uncheck all images with a date older then your last import.

Then import the selected.

And after you imported the last image from your messy Pictures Folder , find a new workflow based on the good advices given in the posts above. I personally use Keith Barkley's strategy - always a clean, reformatted card, and no duplicates to import.😎

1 Open Loop wrote:

Meaning one Library method or the other isn't really any better at handling duplicates.

Correct?

Yes. Whether one makes one's Masters Referenced or Managed has no bearing on how Aperture handles importing a file a second time. 🙂.

Pretty much, but I think in the OP's case it is even simpler that that. He adds files to the pictures folder and then can't remember which he just added and need to be imported and which he imported already and winds up importing files he's done already.

(at least that's my read)

Anyway there are many ways around this. From doing the import from a different folder and having Aperture relocate the files to the picture folder to setting up a hot folder which will import the images just added the folder to just sorting folder with the finder and selecting the recently added files.

leonieDF wrote:

I personally use Keith Barkley's strategy - always a clean, reformatted card, and no duplicates to import.😎

I try to not reformat my cards until I am sure I have a second copy of my files (a back-up of my Masters). My practice is to not reformat a card until it is full, and I leap-frog my two fast large-capacity cards (FILO, iirc).

I always import into a new Project. If I mistakenly import files I have already imported, they are already grouped and are easily removed. In practice, this never happens. I habitually un-check all images in the import dialog, and then select the ones to import.

If I purchased more cards, I could do both: use only "clean, reformatted" cards, and keep my camera files on a card until I am sure I have backed-up Masters.

I try to not reformat my cards until I am sure I have a second copy of my files (a back-up of my Masters).

Don't you worry - I always have a backup of my masters, before I erase the card. 😁 But I got into the habit of reformatting my cards regularly and never to rely on the card as only backup, after I noticed that occasionally I had weird corruptions on my masters - and I am pretty sure by now that those corruptions occur on the cards. I always could track back those corruptions right to the originaly imorped masters and to the backups. Since I format the cards regularly, I have never again seen Images like this:

Cheers

Léonie