My original is no longer stacked with an adjusted version after I make the adjustments. I must have changed a setting unwittingly but don't know what to do.
The setting you seem to be looking for can be found at "Aperture ▹ Preferences ▹ General ▹ Automatically Stack new Versions".
Nope, that's not it---I already had that ticked.
And when I highlight the adjusted image and then I click "File" then "consolidate original" it says "This selection doesn't have any referenced files".
Nope, that's not it---I already had that ticked.
Perhaps you disabled "Advanced > Create new versions when making adjustments"?
And when I highlight the adjusted image and then I click "File" then "consolidate original" it says "This selection doesn't have any referenced files".
That is something completely different from your first question. I thought, the problem was that you no longer can create stacks of original images and adjusted versions. Now you are asking about a problem with referenced original files? Do you get error messages, that the original files cannot be found? Do you see broken arrow badges on the thumbnails?
The error message is telling you, that the command "consolidate original" does not apply, because your image is a managed image and therefore does not have a referenced file, and there is no need to consolidate the original. It is managed inside the Aperture library.
Perhaps you disabled "Advanced > Create new versions when making adjustments"?
Not this either--I had that checked.
Apologies for confusing the issue , but just a manifestation of my lack of overall understanding of the system I guess. I'm just searching around for a way to understand what's going on and thereby solve the problem.,
Then try again to explain what happens, when you adjust an image.
1)yes
2)yes
3)no. The original is absent and if I do more adjustments to the already adjusted image I get just the re-adjusted image.
3)no. The original is absent and if I do more adjustments to the already adjusted image I get just the re-adjusted image.
That is the confusing part.
If the originals were missing from the Aperture library, Aperture would not allow you to adjust an image further. You would get an error message, that the original image is not available. It looks like we are talking at cross purposes because of a terminology problem. In Aperture "original" means the originally imported image file stored in the Aperture library, not the original image version you are seeing in the browser. I think, when you are saying "original" you are not referring to the originally imported image file ("master image" in previous Aperture versions) but to the first, unadjusted version you are seeing in the browser. From what I am seeing in your previous answers, the problem seems to be, that Aperture is always applying new adjustments to the currently selected version of the image and not creating new versions, in spite of being set to "create new version when making adjustments". This has nothing to do with Aperture's management of the original image files and the commands "consolidate/locate/relocate original" do not apply in this case. Have a look at Kirby Krieger's User Tip: The Well-Trod Path: a Beginner's Guide to how Aperture's major parts inter-relate
Perhaps there is a misunderstanding how this feature is supposed to work.
So, please check, if Aperture is working as expected and adding new versions, if you start from an original image version. Create one with "Photos > New version from original" to be sure. You can tell, if you have an original version from the badge in the lower right corner, if you have enabled badge overlays.
The left image has adjustments, the right not:
You can always toggle between the original version of an image and the edited version by hitting the "M" key.
With your preference settings, Aperture should create a new version of an image, if you edit it the very first time and create a stack of the original version and the edited version. Does that happen, if you edit a new image, that never has been edited?
No, that doesn't happen. It used to but now all I have in the browser after doing the adjustment is the adjusted version with the original nowhere to be seen ( whereas I used to have both showing and if I again opened the original and did another adjustment to it I'd get a 2nd version, giving me three images in the stack, the original and the two adjusted versions).
So, please check, if Aperture is working as expected and adding new versions, if you start from an original image version. Create one with "Photos > New version from original" to be sure.
If I do this (i.e.. "create one etc.) I get the new version and the original image version in a 2 image stack (ie.created new version plus the original ) . If I then again open the original and do an adjustment thereupon and go back to browser I still have a two image stack of the adjusted image made from the original and the "created" new version from original image.
I don't know if this is relevant but this all started after I installed Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC and made Lightroom my default download location for new images from my iMac chip reader.
If I do this (i.e.. "create one etc.) I get the new version and the original image version in a 2 image stack (ie.created new version plus the original ) . If I then again open the original and do an adjustment thereupon and go back to browser I still have a two image stack of the adjusted image made from the original and the "created" new version from original image.
That should not happen. Try to find out, if it only happens in your current Aperture library, or if you are having the same problem with a new library, created for testing. You can create a new library in Aperture by using the command "File > Switch to Library > Other/New".
My original is no longer stacked with an adjusted version after I make the adjustments. I must have changed a setting unwittingly but don't know what to do.
