since upgrade of aperture, my photos from a year ago are not in library. On time machine, they are there, but I cant transfer them to todays aperture library because it says the old version is not supported. Please help!!

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since upgrade of aperture, my photos from a year ago are not in library. On time machine, they are there, but I cant transfer them to todays aperture library because it says the old version is not supported. Please help!!

Since the upgrade of Aperture, my photos from a year ago are not showing up. When I go to time machine, they show up in the library, but I cant transfer them to my todays aperture because it says the old program needs to be updated. How do I get my pics from a year ago transferred to todays Aperture? Please help!!!!

iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3), using time machine as home router

Posted on Dec 6, 2012 10:04 AM

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rkaufmann87

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Dec 6, 2012 10:27 AM in response to Joescamp7

You may want to re-post in the Aperture forum too. Your question may have also been answered there. BTW you can simply restore from the backup.

Good luck.

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Dec 6, 2012 10:42 AM in response to Joescamp7

Restore the Aperture library from TM.

Open it with the latest version of Aperture, this will update the library.

Then open the library in Aperture select all the images you want to add to your current library and export them as a new library.

Finally import this library into your current library.

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Joescamp7 Author

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Dec 6, 2012 1:11 PM in response to Frank Caggiano

Thx for your help. When I click restore, it prompts me to select a folder for the restored items. Do I just create a new folder? I did this, and the folder appears on my desktop. I still can't import the folder into today's aperture. Thank you for your help . . What's next step? I am about to restore again and need to know what folder. Thank you

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Dec 6, 2012 1:17 PM in response to Joescamp7

You will be restoring the old Aperture library from TM, having it on the Desktop is fine.

Once the restore is finished you will have the old Aperture library in that folder. Now you want to open this library by double clicking it (the library). This will open Aperture on it and Aperture will tell you the library needs to be upgraded. Let Aperture upgrade the library.

Once the Library is upgraded to the latest version of Aperture you can do want you want with it. Once you have gotten to this point if you still need help post back.

regards

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Joescamp7 Author

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Dec 6, 2012 1:25 PM in response to Frank Caggiano

Thank you very much. I tried that and aperture kept crashing. I need to update to the latest version, but it said that once updated, you will not be able to use this library with previous versions of aperture. Should I be concerned with this msg or not? Thank you so much

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Joescamp7 Author

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Dec 6, 2012 1:55 PM in response to Joescamp7

Mr. Frank, it loaded the images, but aperture would crash when I tried to open folder, so I imported them into iPhoto. That worked. Thank you soooo much!!!!

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Dec 6, 2012 1:55 PM in response to Joescamp7

What version of Aperture and the OS are you running now?

Updating the library will make it so you can;t use it with earlier versions of Aperture but you have a backup of the old version of the library in TM so you are covered.

BTW you are restoring the library out of TM before you work on it, correct? You are not trying to do this on the TM disk.

regards

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