Aperture photos from Photo Stream not syncing in iTunes

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Aperture photos from Photo Stream not syncing in iTunes

Hi

I am running Aperture 3.4.3 on an iMac running 10.8.2. I have Photo Stream enabled. When I open Aperture, it downloads all the recent photos from Photo Stream and puts them in to one or more automatically created projects called something like "Mar 2013 Photo Stream". As I understand it, Aperture is copying the photos from Photo Stream to these new projects, so when Photo Stream eventually deletes the photos (say because I reach the 1000 photo limit), the downloaded versions in Aperture won't affected. So far, so good.

Because the new projects in Aperture start with the month name, I have taken to renaming these folders to something like "2013 03 March Photo Stream", and you can then sort them alphabetically. This might be red herring though.

When I open iTunes and connect my iPhone, I have selected to sync photos from all Events in the last 12 months. This should include all the projects that were created in Aperture. This is where I hit the problem. Some of the projects sync just fine. Others do not. When they don't sync, 2 things happen:

1. The Events don't appear on the iPhone

2. When I look in iTunes, all the affected Events have the same item count. The item count is correct for one project, but not the others. So, for example, I have 4 projects at the moment that won't sync, and all show in iTunes with an item count of 1. Only one project actually contains 1 photo, the rest have many more.

I have tried all sorts of things in Aperture, such as rebuilding the data, deleting the iPod Photo Cache etc.

Does anyone have any idea?

Thanks.

Posted on Mar 4, 2013 1:49 PM

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P Diddy Author

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Mar 4, 2013 2:27 PM in response to P Diddy

As far as I can tell, my problems have been caused by me renaming the automatic import projects in Aperture. I did notice that Aperture kept creating new empty projects for the same month.

This solution from Jannem1970, posted on this thread https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3585677?start=0&tstart=0, seems to have done the trick for me.

- turn off automatic import for Photo Stream;

- identify 'the ghost'-projectfolders, select and delete them;

- close Aperture (this saves the current setting and condition of your library);

- open Aperture again;

- turn on automatic import for Photo Stream.

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