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Apr 11, 2015 4:32 AM in response to cherrie7777ebby léonie,★HelpfulCan I transfer my photos from Aperture to an external drive and still continue to use Aperture for downloading photos and editing. I find the new MAC Photos too basic editing. once my photos are edited I then store on an external drive. I'm an amateur Photographer and the photos are just travel and family.
You can move your complete aperture library to an external drive and use it from that location. Drag the Aperture Library to the external drive, then double click it to open it in Aperture and work as before.
Once you are sure, the library is working correctly there, back up your mac and delete the original library in your Pictures folder.
A few things to note: You have to prepare the external drive, see Apples support document:
Aperture: Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library - Apple Support
- Your drive needs to be locally mounted, plugged into a USB or Thunderbolt, or firewire port. You cannot use a NAS.
- The file system must be MacOS Extended (Journaled), not some windows filesystem.
If your external drive has a different system, copy the contents to a different drive and reformat it as described here: Format external drives to Mac OS Extended before using with Aperture - Apple Support
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Apr 11, 2015 4:44 AM in response to léonieby cherrie7777eb,I have photos already on the external drive which is Mac formatted. Should I copy them to the desktop just in case I loose them? How do I locate Aperture other than opening the program to send it to the External Drive. only my iPhoto library shows up in finder. sorry not that familiar with the Mac as its quite new.
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Apr 13, 2015 2:12 PM in response to léonieby cherrie7777eb,Help? Where do I find the Aperture Library to drag it to the external drive??
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Apr 15, 2015 12:27 AM in response to cherrie7777ebby léonie,★HelpfulHow do I locate Aperture other than opening the program to send it to the External Drive. only my iPhoto library shows up in finder. sorry not that familiar with the Mac as its quite new.
Have you been using the iPhoto Library as your Aperture Library?
Then there is no separate Aperture Library.
By default your Aperture Library should be in the Pictures folder and have an icon like this; by default the name is Aperture LIbrary.aplibrary, but if you renamed it, the name might be hidden.
But you may not have a separate Aperture library, if you continued to use the iPhoto Library, when you upgraded to Aperture. Then your iPhoto lIbrary and Aperture library will be one and the same.
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Apr 15, 2015 12:37 AM in response to léonieby cherrie7777eb,Thank you for your recent reply, very helpful. I have been using the iPhoto library and as you say they are one that's why I couldn't find the Aperture library.
I believe I can copy all the projects into a file on my external drive and delete them from my iPhoto library. I wish to continue using Aperture so do I download future photos directly into Aperture. Looking at the new Apple Photo editing it is too basic. I appreciate your assisting me, thanks.
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Apr 15, 2015 1:55 AM in response to cherrie7777ebby léonie,You're welcome!
Looking at the new Apple Photo editing it is too basic. I appreciate your assisting me, thanks.
Have you found all editing options in Photos? They are cleverly hidden, so a novice will not be frightened by them.
Some important adjustments are only accessible if you click the tiny triangles in the adjustment pane. And there existence is not mentioned in the Help. If you enter "Highlight" or "Shadow" in the Help search field, there is no result. One of the most important adjustment "Light" looks just light a scrollbar. Without entering the "Light" pane, you do neither see the hidden "Auto" button nor the larger hidden disclosure triangle to get to the really important adjustments.
Only after disclosing further details we can access Highlight andShadow, or know of its existence.
I have seen users complain about no "Highlight & Shadows" tool, or not being able to straighten a horizon. Many users are expecting the "Straighten" tool as part of the "Rotate" button, and not as part of the cropping tool.
And some users could not even find all adjustments after adding more adjustments to the panel, because the scrollbar to the right is hidden by default. If you add all the adjustment to the panel and expand a few, the "light" adjustment may be scrolled out of view, and no indication that the panel needs to be scrolled down to get to "Color", and "Light", and "Black&White". Users that do not expect hidden scrollbars in such panels will not even try to scroll. It would help, if the "Help" text provided a complete list of all adjustments, and where the they are located. The combination of the basic default sets with an equally basic help and no full manual is unfortunate.
E.g. no trace of the "Color", and "Light", and "Black&White" adjustments after adding more:



