Help with Aperture crash please! (Importing library)

'[<RKAlbum 0x11737a560> valueForUndefinedKey:]: this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key minImageDate.'

This error message from your crash report is very typical for an Aperture library that contains smart iPhoto albums, with the projects view sorted by date. Change the sort order for the projects in your empty library to another sort key, different from date.

Have you imported an iPhoto Library previously? Then I would remove all iPhoto smart iPhoto albums and rebuild the library. Also remove the smart albums from the library that you are trying to import and rebuild the library before importing.

Regards

Léonie

How to find all iPhoto albums? If you cannot remember, which (smart) albums originally came from iPhoto, delete and recreate all albums - that is what I did, to be on the safe side, or use the procedure, that Alex Brown found, but it may be a bit involved, if you are not experienced with the Terminal; see this discussion:

Aperture 3.3.2 unresponsive if library contains old iPhoto albums - solution

How to delete them?
If you are browsing your Aperture library and select a smart album in the library Inspector, simply ctrl-click it and select "Delete Smart Album" from the Pop-up menu.

• Should I delete them in Aperture or in iPhoto?
  You imported them to Aperture, so delete them in Aperture. Deleting them now from your iPhoto Library will not help.
• When you say "also remove the smart albums front the library you are trying to import" it confuses me: I understood you were trying to import an Aperture library into another Aperture Library. So if you can remove incompatible albums before importing it would be safer.
  

Aperture currently references iPhoto library.

So, when I am importing Aperture library file in to new fresh library, what does it do with regard to referenced iPhoto? Just trys to add to new library referenced?

When you import a referenced library the imported library will continue to reference the images.

Perhaps I am better off just using consolidate masters to get to one file? What would pros and cons be? To do that, would I just select all photos in Aperture and say consolidate masters?

Do you still need your iPhoto Library? When you consolidate the referenced original images (that are now in your iPhoto Library) into your current Aperture Library, your iPhoto library will be corrupted - Aperture will remove the original masters and move them into your Aperture Library. So make a backup of the iPhoto Library on an external drive.

But I strongly recommend to consolidate your Aperture library, when you are now going to work with Aperture; it is risky to keep your referenced masters in another application package and to share the masters. If you delete images from iPhoto you may be deleting your Aperture masters.

Regards

Léonie

Would you recommend I resolve the issue with IPhoto smart albums before consolidating masters? Or doesnt matter?

Consolidating masters and deleting albums should be independent of each other. But it would be safer to fix this cause for crashes before you proceed, because crashes may corrupt the library.

Afaik, the iPhoto albums only cause trouble, if the sorting for projects is set to "Date". So the first thing to do would be to turn off sorting by date for the "Projects" view. set it to "name" or "Manual".

How much excess disk space will I need to make this work before I delete leftover iPhoto library? Or will it effectively move files instead of copying so don't need a whole lot extra?

Consolidating should prompt you, if you want to move the files or to copy them. If you choose to move, no extra space should be required. if you choose to copy, you will need more space, but will have the benefit that your iPhoto library still will be working,

The addiditional space required should be the size of the "Masters" folder inside the iPhoto Library. The iPhoto library also contains edited versions, thumbnails, and an iLife Photo cache, but this will not be imported to Aperture.

The size difference you notice may be caused by the size of the versions, and the photo cache.

Aperture 3 now has this new sections, and by defalut Aperture will show the products like "Books", "Albums" in these sections. If you hover the mouse beside the name of a section you can see, that you can hde and unhide these sections completely. You may have more sections with books and slideshows.

If your albums are now in the "Albums" section, they are not missing. Aperture just moved them on import to the section where now do belong to. You still can create products directly within the projects and folders if you want.

If you do not see all sections "Book", "Screensaver", create at least one dummy item of these products, then the sections will show.

Any way to check and compare OLD library with NEW library other than just a spot check as I've done in inspector?

Two compare two libraries project by project you could open your old Aperture Library in iPhoto 9.3 and your new library in Aperture at the same time and check all projects in turn, if all images are there.

I understand that you are worried by the discrepancy of size, but a new library can be considerably smaller - Photo Stream, iPhoto Cache, Previews. These can account for several GB of data and be empty in a new library.

In addition to comparing the total number of images i'd compare the numbers for different file status. Do you have the same number of referenced images, managed images, offline images?

To count based on file status create smart albums with an added rule "File Status is".

f you are missing the Books, they should appear in the "Books" section; maybe you have to unhide this section as well.

if your "Books" section is really empty, and more albums are missing, repair your Aperture Library see "Repairing and Rebuilding your Library". Start with repairing permissions and repairing the database, and if necessary rebuild the database.

Regards

Léonie