Q: aperture import
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Jan 16, 2014 7:07 PMby fynearts,Hello Leonie ... aperture is 3.4.5. and i have been using it for a while ... pictures are imported from both camera and an external hard drive. usually without issues. they are going into aperture trash. the 'importing' little icon turns and turns but no pics show up in the folder i am importing into and then i noticed the numbers in the trash have increased the same number of pics as imported.
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Jan 16, 2014 8:47 PMby Najinsky,fynearts wrote:
they are going into aperture trash. the 'importing' little icon turns and turns but no pics show up in the folder i am importing into and then i noticed the numbers in the trash have increased the same number of pics as imported.
I've seen something like this before, and not too long ago but I'm racking my brain to remeber what the circumstances were. It wasn't every file just a selection. I need to try and jog my memory a little.
Is there anything unusual with the files? Have you changed camera or changed settings on the camera? Do you have any plug-ins installed, and did anything notable happen to your system (upgrades, new software, etc) that conincides with the problem starting?
Andy
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Jan 16, 2014 10:52 PMby léonie,Gina,
we should try to find out, if it is a problem with your current Aperture library, a problem with your user account, or system wide. This will require a few tests:
Create a new Aperture library for testing: hold down the alt/opt key ⌥ while launching Aperture and select to create a new library from the panel. Try to import a few images. Do they also end up in the Trash?
- If you can import into a new library without problems, you will need to trouble shoot your current library. I'd recommend to run the Aperture Library First Aid tools, see this link: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library: Aperture 3 User Manual
Back up your current library before doing any rebuild. - If you cannot import into a new library without problems, check for problems with your current user account. Try to launch Aperture from a different user account. You can create a new user account from the System Preferences > Users & Groups panel. Sign into the new account and launch Aperture. Try to import a photo. Does it work?
- If you can import using a different user account, there is a problem with settings in your current account, then try to remove your preferences or presets, as described here: Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics
- If you cannot import using ad different user account, you are having a system wide problem and need to reinstall Aperture or remove incompatible software.
Please post back with the test results. And perhaps Andy has remembered by then the similar case.
-- Léonie
- If you can import into a new library without problems, you will need to trouble shoot your current library. I'd recommend to run the Aperture Library First Aid tools, see this link: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library: Aperture 3 User Manual
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Jan 16, 2014 11:43 PMby fynearts,thank you both for your advice and suggestions. i shall try all of that leonie - will let you both know tomorrow.
additional information - i have been using photoshope elements to work on large photos - creating ditigal merges and imagery and it is these pics that are sitting in external hard drive waiting to be imported into aperture - thumbnails that is whilst pics themselves sit on one hard drive with backup on another hard drive. aperture is requested to move all items (not copy) ...
these pics that are going into aperture trash are not moved - the original pic remains in the interim folder.
i shall do a few tests and investigations - give me a day or two as i am in themiddle of trying to finish some paintings for exhibition ! and i am running out time ...
thanks again - much much appreciated >>> Gina
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Jan 19, 2014 4:11 PMby fynearts,Hello .... i have done a little testing and all is well ... what happened i dont know except that i shut everything down, restarted machine and tried importing again. it worked ! ... i had a lot of stuff running at one time - multiple chrome windows holding information on various things including pics & videos, 3 other programs in the background including aperture (word, inventoria & photoshop elements with a few pics open & ready for editing). i had been flipping back and forth between all those things for a few days however i do put machine to sleep each night.
its not happened before but its the only thing i can think of. what do you guys think ? would hate for there to be a real problem with imac.
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Jan 19, 2014 11:05 PMby Najinsky,First thing that springs to mind is you were asking Aperture to move them. But if the files were locked by other applications you were using, then it would have been unable to complete the move of the files, so it seems to have abandoned the operation and trashed the import rather than leave duplicates.
What do you think, does that fit with what you observed?
Andy
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Jan 22, 2014 4:35 PMby fynearts,Hi again ... moving the files is how i always do it ... they sit in a folder where all current edited pics stay until i import them into aperture asking it to move and back up to different drives. nothing stays on my computer.
i see your reasoning but again they were not locked by other applications either as i dont import right away - i let them build up in this particular folder before importing. and no there were no files on that occasion that had been moved with duplicates going to trash (whilst leaving original files still in the folder ready for import).
i wish i could tell you what it was ... i am back here today after making sure all is okay - and it is ... i just imported a dozen new edited pics and it worked a treat.
i thank you both Andy and Leonie for embracing the problem when i had it. i am keeping a close eye on things and should anything change or come to me i will let you know!
much thanks again >>> Gina
