Q: Aperture vs Iphoto - collecting pictures, duplicates etc
Hi
I`m going to collect pictures from different places, and save them in one place. I`m planning to use Aperture or Iphoto on my macbook pro. I will have all pictures stored on an external drive with reference from the app. I only have 256 GB on my macbook pro, so I`m kind of tightfisted on my ssd drive, So I will do all editing in the app.
- I want to make sure that duplicates are not imported. I just don`t want to do spend hours doing duplicate search afterwards.
- I want to have the opportunity to delete photos in the app, and not only the reference.. I`d like it to be a question like: only reference? also the original picture? yeah.. you understand
- I want an easy way to do basic editing (Aperture may be too complicated?)
S
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
Posted on Jan 20, 2014 12:49 PM
Ok, thanx, can I have my photos in dropbox, or isn`t that recomended, speedwise.
So the Aperture is like Fcpx, so I can have reference to different locations (Icloud, Dropbox, Flickr etc), and then make albums inside Aperture, without bothering where the file is located?
Sorry, it looks like I have to give you only bad news today.
You can have your referenced originals on external drives, but not on drives that are synced by other services. Don't store them in the cloud. Syncing by Dropbox, Flickr, FB can break the connection between the versions and the referenced originals. See: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library
The safest option would be to get yourself a small portable drive (or better two - one as backup) and store your Aperture library on that drive, or only the referenced originals. If you let Aperture create previews, you can still browse your Aperture library, even if the drive with the referenced originals is not connected. See: Aperture 3 User Manual: Working with Referenced Images
-- Léonie
Posted on Jan 21, 2014 1:18 PM