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Aperture won't import an Aperture library

I have Aperture updated and installed on my macbook pro and my iMac. On vacation, I imported the photos to my MBP for review and editing. I have done this many times in the past. I can export the Projects or the Folder of my vacation pics to an Aperture library and can put it on the desktop of my iMac. I cannot get Aperture to import this vacation library to add it to the main library on my iMac.

On my iMac, I selected "import library" (as I have done in the past) and it starts a process, calculating disk space and merging the libraries. With about 3/4 of the progress bar filled, it fails and no images are brought over.

I can "Switch libraries" on my iMac and can view all of the photos in the vacation library. The photos are there and the edits are present. I just can't bring them over to the iMac library successfully.

Both systems are the most current version of OSX and there are no new updates available for Aperture on either my MBP or my iMac.

Anyone know how to get Aperture to import a library in the new version? It looks like the new update of Aperture has a bug in it.

Aperture 3, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Dec 11, 2012 9:42 AM

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léonie

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Posted on Dec 11, 2012 9:59 AM

With about 3/4 of the progress bar filled, it fails and no images are brought over.

What do you mean by "it fails"? Is there an error message or a crash log? Then post please the exact error message and the first 50 lines of the cras log.

Both systems are the most current version of OSX and there are no new updates available for Aperture on either my MBP or my iMac

Is your Aperture version 3.4.3? Sometimes updates are not show as available.

Regards

Léonie

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Mar 24, 2013 4:43 PM in response to coxorange

coxorange,

I just went through this whole thing too.

I selected ADD and Aperture created a new Project at the bottom of the list. You can rebame it later if you want,

Hope it work out for you too.

Cheers

Mar 25, 2013 1:21 PM in response to Bob Worthingham

Thanks Bob!

I tried it until the end, but it didn't work. Then I read the instructions again:

DanW98 wrote:

4. I moved it adjacent to the original photo in the first day's project. Thus, two originals now exist side-by-side.

Could it be that DanW98 didn't mean the photos per se, but the photos which represent the projects?

I tried this and it worked! 🙂 Thanks again for your help.

DanW98 Author

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Mar 25, 2013 2:56 PM in response to léonie

Leonie did help a lot. You have to have the same Aperture versions before you export the secondary library.

I had exported the entire library of vacation photos from my macbook into an exported library. I put it onto my main Mac and switched to it in Aperture. This was the crux of the problem. Aperture wouldn't let me import the photos. It would only let me switch to the other library. Looking at it, I had several projects within the library (Day 1, Day 2, Dive 1, Dive 2, etc...). With the first project, I selected the first photo and exported it to the desktop and then reimported it back into aperture. It'll create a new project next to "Day 1," "Day 2." etc.... I then moved that single photo into the project from which it came. Thus, when looking at "Day 1," the first photo is duplicated. I saved it and switched back to the Aperture main library. For whatever reason, I was able to then import the entire vacation library. Adding a photo must change some aspect of the new library that makes it compatible with your main Aperture library.

It's clearly a bug. Hopefully they'll fix it in the next update.

DanW98 Author

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Mar 25, 2013 2:59 PM in response to coxorange

I believe that I moved the newly imported photo so that it was located next to it's original in the same project.

The original was a RAW and the export was a JPEG. Dunno if this makes a difference.

Mar 26, 2013 8:10 AM in response to DanW98

Thanks for this more detailed information. One note:

DanW98 wrote:

I had exported the entire library of vacation photos
from my macbook into an exported library.

How did you do that? Select all projects, then export?

Why do you think it's necessary at all to export the library as a new library? This procedure takes time.

Why not just copy the "Aperture Library.aplibrary" to your main Mac? (and maybe rename it)

DanW98 Author

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Mar 26, 2013 7:07 PM in response to coxorange

I took the photos from each day on my vacation and created a different project for each day. They were all located within a folder called "Galapagos Islands." The individual islands I visited had a project assigned to them.

I had been editing them in the early AM and late afternoon while on my vacation. I had made many many corrections to the RAW images that I wanted to keep. I wanted to move just the folder containing the Galapagos photos onto my main Mac for further editing, uploading, facebooking, etc. I didn't do any of that kind of stuff from my laptop.

It made sense to just take the 70GB of photos off of my laptop en masse. Exporting the entire folder as a new library (Rt click the folder, Export-->Export folder as a new library) was an easy way of doing this. I had no idea that it would fail to import on my main mac. I didn't need to move the rest of the photos off of my Macbook.

I had done this several times before on different vacations. Something in the newer version of Aperture caused the jam.

Either way, I just had to use the fairly simple albeit non-intuitive workaround once, and the library imported.

Apr 19, 2013 10:31 AM in response to DanW98

This problem has NOT been resolved in Ap 3.4.4

Clem

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Apr 23, 2013 10:56 AM in response to léonie

leonie/coxorange

This error you are getting is seen when you are inside a project while also in the main Projects view. Try instead to select the project itself in the source list, then choose File/Export/Library.

Aperture won't import an Aperture library