Q: Arpeture projects are not available to migrate even if I select the library? What's the problem?
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May 21, 2015 8:39 AMby léonie,I select the arpeture library, and select import in photo, the library I want to use isn't available. So I have to select individual photos in my arpeture projects library, export to a file then import to photos. That's fine for one two, but for the 10000's of pics is inefficient. Questions; 1. External arpeture said are not available anymore. They were backed a few weeks befor photo .
Don't import the Aperture library to Photos, but open the library in Photos.
The new Photos for Mac cannot merge libraries by importing one library into the other. You have to merge all libraries using aperture before you migrate the library to Photos.
- To open your Aperture library in Photos drag the Aperture library onto the Photos icon in the Dock or launch Photos while holding down the alt/options key to bring up the Library Chooser panel. Seelct your Aperture Library from the panel.
. 2. why won't photo recognize an arpeture project and import it as a project. I don't want a list of dates, moments, or other useless stuff. I want the project and contents. 3. If I create an album/project in photo, is that making copies of the photo or moving the photo?
THeres gotta be be a better program than photo.
There are no projects in Photos, only the moments. A Photos library is split automatically into Moments as the basic organizational unit. You cannot change this partition. To add your own structure create albums or smart albums.
When you migrate an Aperture library to Photos, the Photos.app will create automatically albums for each of your projects. These albums will be collected in a folder "iPhoto Events" in the Albums section of the sidebar.
See: How Photos handles content and metadata from iPhoto and Aperture - Apple Support
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May 21, 2015 11:06 AMby themish,The method you described is the method I tried to use and it did not work. I changed aperture libraries, opened photos, the library I wanted to import was gray, and Photos didn't recognize the database. Okay, I opened aperture tried the export function. Didn't work. Regardless of the method I tried to use, Photos would not allow or recognize my aperture libraries. But it recognized the export photos I sent to a desktop file. But that's not going to work for the 80 or so projects I'm working on.
So what you have stated is I have to recreate all the albums, projects etc.from scratch, is that correct? If so I'm leaving this app. All the albums, projects in development phase and editing process in aperture by name, are null fields.
I'll tell you what I have, photos all over my hard drive, disorganized, scattered, listed by dates. So I have ancient photos (1860-1920) in special projects mixed in with other items I scanned the same year and they are all over my drive. I have to search and reorganize all these hundreds of pics because the meta data didn't transfer as it should have. This is a photographer's nightmare and the pictorial history book I created in an aperture project is a scattered mess in a thousand places on my drive.
Your suggested method of importing photos has not worked and I spent hours trying to get this fixed, and there isn't one, except hunt them and start over. I wish it did, but it's not and hasn't.
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May 21, 2015 11:20 AMby léonie,Where is your Aperture library located?
the library I wanted to import was gray,
You cannot import an Aperture library. Did you really try to open the library, either by dragging the Aperture library onto the Photos icon or launching Photos with the alt/options key held down?
Photos cannot open an Aperture library, if the library is on a drive that is not formatted MacOS extended (Journaled) or not locally mounted.
So what you have stated is I have to recreate all the albums, projects etc.from scratch, is that correct? If so I'm leaving this app. All the albums, projects in development phase and editing process in aperture by name, are null fields.
Photos can migrate Aperture libraries with albums and smart albums intact. There must be a reason why Photos cannot open your Aperture library.
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May 21, 2015 12:11 PMby themish,Where is your Aperture library located?
2 places. C-drive, IPhoto, Aperture plus a back up external drive.
You cannot import an Aperture library. Did you really try to open the library, either by dragging the Aperture library onto the Photos icon or launching Photos with the alt/options key held down?
Over and over and over and over and over and over....changed libraries a dozen times. I dragged, pushed, shoved using every method Apple has to offer. The Aperture lib is grayed out and I can't select it. All known methods known to mankind have been attempted.
Photos cannot open an Aperture library, if the library is on a drive that is not formatted MacOS extended (Journaled) or not locally mounted.
Uhm, this is a MAC BACK-UP disk I've been using for a long time, 1TB and 500GB available.
Why the library isn't going into Photos is a problem Apple needs to solve; I'm not a programmer, I'm a prosumer photographer. I'm more galled and annoyed Apple decides to shove photos into their idea of date order under a silly name like "Moments."
Since date sort is the default and cannot be changed, I'm abandoning photo for a different default program. This is maddening. 15 years of digital photos and scanning are sorted by date and not names or projects.
I know you are a rep for Apple, but Apple needs to evaluate prosumer needs, and continue supporting Aperture over Photos. It's an awful program and useless for medium to high end editing. Adobe $$$$$$ too much for budget minded. But photos doesn't do the job Aperture did. I simply won't use Photos and if I have to use MS to manage photos, I will. I'm kinda done with this mess.
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May 22, 2015 2:57 AMby léonie,Uhm, this is a MAC BACK-UP disk I've been using for a long time, 1TB and 500GB available.
Photos cannot open the library on a Time Machine drive either.
I know you are a rep for Apple, but Apple needs to evaluate prosumer needs, and continue supporting Aperture over Photos. It's an awful program and useless for medium to high end editing. Adobe $$$$$$ too much for budget minded. But photos doesn't do the job Aperture did. I simply won't use Photos and if I have to use MS to manage photos, I will. I'm kinda done with this mess.
I am a user like you, like most of us here. This is strictly a user-to-user forum. Occasionally you might see a Community Specialist post an answer. You can recognize them by the Apple Logo below the avatar.
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May 22, 2015 8:34 AMby themish,I Apologize for being snarky. I thought you were an apple representative.
Thank you you for trying to assist and guide me through the photos maze.
I appreciate your willingness to help and to volunteer your services. I'll remember this is a community not Apple Inc.
i will send feedback to Apple. I really like Arpeture and they should continue supporting it.
thank you again for your assist.
