Q: Merging iPhoto/Aperture Libraries
My wife and I have a shared iPhoto/Aperture library on a USB Hard Drive attached to our iMac. I have recently purchased a MacBook Pro which I am using to import and organise photos (in iPhoto/Aperture) taken on my Nikon D5300 when away from home on holiday. When I return from holiday I wish to transfer those photos, including all the change history, into the iMac library. This is something that I will need to do every time I go on holiday. Am I right in thinking that I have to use the merge libraries function in Aperture to do this if I wish to preserve all the change history? or is there a better way to do this in future?
Posted on Sep 16, 2014 10:51 AM
Am I right in thinking that I have to use the merge libraries function in Aperture to do this if I wish to preserve all the change history? or is there a better way to do this in future?
Use Aperture to merge the libraries. This will be able to save all products - books, slideshows, ...
But you will need Aperture 3.3 or later and iPhoto 9.3 or later to do this. Which versions do you have?
With iPhoto library Manager you would lose them when merging.
See this help page: Aperture 3.3: How to use Aperture to merge iPhoto libraries
Basically you open Aperture on your main library and import the new holiday library (iPhoto or Aperture) that you want to merge into the main library. Use the command "File > Import > Library". Aperture will merge the two libraries into one and resolve conflicts for duplicate items.
Posted on Sep 16, 2014 11:08 AM