Aperture & File management

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Aperture & File management

Hi everyone!

We recently d/l Aperture and looking for suggestions on file management and work flow ideas. We currently have all our pics and an external, mirrored, networked drive. We also have PS6 which resides on a mid 2010 MBP. Our file folders are consistent, i.e. 2010-05 Las Vegas. Aperture sees these folders no problem. Before I go in and screw things up, what do I want to do, if anything from here? We do want to do some folder clean up, tagging favorites for future editing, etc. (we have several thousand to go through).

So looking for any direction towards tutorials or if someone could offer some quick bullet points for first timers. Even better suggestions for file nomenclature and work flow from a days shoot. Greatly appreciated, thanks!

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Jun 29, 2013 4:34 PM

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Jun 29, 2013 4:43 PM in response to iguana70

Aperture is a DAM, Digital Asset Management so you will have to change you method of file management to suit it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_asset_management

For a turtorial try

http://photo.tutsplus.com/tutorials/post-processing/advanced-aperture-importing- and-organizing-files/

Allan

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Jul 1, 2013 1:32 PM in response to Allan Eckert

Hi and thank you very much for the links. I think it helped. When you mention my method of file management to suit, do you mean how Aperture breaks it down to Master and Revisions and working with both of those?

If I follow the method in the tutorial in importing pictures already on my networked drive, it is my understanding that they can simply stay there on the drive while it creates the Revisions library on my MBP? If that is the case, is it possible to have both reside on the network drive to keep my laptop clean? It's 2Tb vs 250gb :)

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Jul 1, 2013 1:41 PM in response to iguana70

How is the network drive formatted?

Allan

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iguana70 Author

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Jul 1, 2013 1:55 PM in response to Allan Eckert

It's a third party, Netgear ReadyNas. It's been awhile but I think I used the software that came with the drive. Aperture is able to see the drive. The file structure is simple. Broken down into two Folders, Backup and Media and under Media, 4 subfolders (Videos, Pictures, etc.). We store all pictures on it.

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