Moving from iPhoto to Aperture small issue...

Welcome to Aperture and the list,

What versions of Aperture and iPhoto do you have. With the latest versions of both there is no need to import the iPhoto library as both applications use the same library structure and can read each others libraries.

BTW your screen shot didn;t make into the post.

regards

If you have the latest version of both and the iPhoto library has been opened by the latest version of iPhoto then Aperture can open that library and no import needs to be done.

So if "no import needs to be done".... all I have to do is drag the file titled "iphoto Library"

to my external harddrive? Then open Aperture.....?

Yes, just as Frank Caggiano said - Aperture can now open iPhoto libraries and iPhoto can open Aperture Libraries, see this support article: Aperture 3.3: Using a unified photo library with iPhoto and Aperture

Just a short note, until Frank can come back to this thread: If your main objective is to free space on your system drive, drag your iPhoto Library to your external drive. Then hold down the ⌥(alt/option)-key and double click Aperture; this will display a panel with libraries to open. Select your library on the external drive to open it in Aperture. You can then use Aperture's main menu bar (File > Open Library in iPhoto) to toggle between iPhoto and Aperture to browse the library, if you want to.

But from your previous posts it was not clear that you already have an Aperture library. If you do not want to have to switch between libraries, you might consider to import your iPhoto library into the Aperture library. Is your Aperture library still experimental, or would it be worth it to merge both libraries? See this article:

Aperture 3.3: How to use Aperture to merge iPhoto libraries

Regards

Léonie

P.S. which video have been trying to follow? It is hard to understand your screenshot without knowing exactly what you have been trying to do.

Nathan,

there is really no need to apologize. It was just that from your opening sentence "as I just made it to Aperture" I assumed, that you do not yet have set up an Aperture library that needs keeping. And then Frank's solution, simply using the iPhoto library as your Aperture library without need to import anything would have been the best option. Your iPhoto library is already an Aperture library and does not need any conversion.

So to be cleare you suggest that I import my iPhoto library into the Aperture library?

Only, if you want/need to unite your current Aperture Library with the iPhoto library. Do you already have invested work into your Aperture library and does it contain images you want to continue using? Then merging would save you from having to switch between libraries.

file->import->library

I pointed the pop up window to my iphoto library.

Then hit import.

My iphoto library is 30.5 GB so I knew it would take some time....

I watched the progress bar do its thing.

That is exactly as it is done. The screenshot shows only two videos. What is the size of your library after importing? Has the Aperture library grown by 30.5 GB? If yes, then I would open the library in iPhoto to check, if your photos are in the "hidden" album. Aperture cannot show photos, that have been hidden in iPhoto.

Regards

Sorry for the confusion. Léonie's pretty much covered this.

With the new versions of Aperture ad iPhoto think of what you want to do not as importing an iPhoto library into an Aperture library but as combining two libraries (one just hapens to have been made with iPhoto and the other with Aperture).

So for this you just use the File ->Import Library command in Aperture and point that command to the library that was made in iPhoto.

Hope this clears up any confusion, post back if you still have questions.

regards