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Q: What happened to all my images or why are they not in the aperture library after upgrading to 3.2.4 How do I find them?

I have recently upgraded my Aperture to 3.2.4 after doing so I found my library has disappeared, how do I search for it or find it again? Has anyone else experienced this? If so how did you fix this?

Posted on Jun 5, 2012 5:28 PM

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Q: What happened to all my images or why are they not in the aperture library after upgrading to 3.2.4 How do I find them?

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  • by dbmoore,

    dbmoore dbmoore Jun 5, 2012 5:40 PM in response to seamsfantastic
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    Jun 5, 2012 5:40 PM in response to seamsfantastic

    Hold the option key and click on the Aperture icon in the dock.  You should get a dialog asking which library to open.  Do you see more than one?  Is perhaps one of them the one you are looking for.   cheers

  • by seamsfantastic,

    seamsfantastic seamsfantastic Jun 5, 2012 5:53 PM in response to dbmoore
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    Jun 5, 2012 5:53 PM in response to dbmoore

    Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work any other suggestions?

  • by seamsfantastic,

    seamsfantastic seamsfantastic Jun 5, 2012 5:54 PM in response to seamsfantastic
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    Jun 5, 2012 5:54 PM in response to seamsfantastic

    Could the 3.2.4 upgrade have overwritten the aplibrary or can I still retrieve it somehow?

  • by Frank Caggiano,

    Frank Caggiano Frank Caggiano Jun 5, 2012 6:48 PM in response to seamsfantastic
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    Jun 5, 2012 6:48 PM in response to seamsfantastic

    As a rule if all is done correctly and all goes well updating Aperture will not overwrite your existing library.

     

    How did you discover that the library had disappeared?

     

    The Aperture library has a .aplibrary extension so if you do a spotlight search for all files that have a .aplibrary extension you might find other libraries.

     

    Another thing to try when Aperture is opened select File->Switch To Library->Other/New. You'll get a list of libraries Aperture knows about.

  • by seamsfantastic,

    seamsfantastic seamsfantastic Jun 6, 2012 3:09 AM in response to Frank Caggiano
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    Jun 6, 2012 3:09 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

    When I first opened Aperture after upgrading, no thumbnails or photos loaded and all the projects were gone as well. Still trying to figure out if the original aplibrary was misplaced/path missing or was it over written because the aplibrary was completely empty! If there is a chance it was just missplaced, how would I find it as it will not show up in spotlight?

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 6, 2012 3:28 AM in response to seamsfantastic
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    Jun 6, 2012 3:28 AM in response to seamsfantastic

    Have you checked the size of your apparently empty Aperture Library, if it really is empty? Sometimes a filter prevents the contents from showing. Are all search fields (in the Inspector, the Browser) cleared?

     

    Sometimes an Aperture Library is written to the top level of your system drive, if you are having disk trouble.

     

    In the Finder menu bar click "Go" > Go to Folder

    and enter a Slash-character :  "/", hit return

     

    This will open a Finder Window at the top level of your system volume. Browse from there, if you can find a trace of your aperture library, but be careful not to change or delete anything.

     

    Regards

    Léonie

     

    P.S. do you have a backup of your aperture Library?