Restored Aperture Library from Time Capsule - lost folder structure, tags, ratings, etc.
iMac 21.5" (2013)
OS-X 10.10.3
Aperture 3.6
Time Capsule (2012)
Yesterday I found that after a run of "CleanMyMac 3" at least one of my latest Projects in Aperture was missing. The CMM3 user interface only ever speaks of iPhoto, not mentions Aperture, but that's a different story. So I turned to Time Machine to simply restore my Aperture Library from one of the latest backups. It took half the night (as it's connected via WLAN) and did bring back the lost pictures but this morning I was shocked to find:
- Hundreds of projects with ca. 20.000 pictures have merged into a single project and no albums
- Thousands of deleted pictures re-appeared
- No picture has maintained the edits I made over the years
- No picture has ratings, keywords, faces, etc.
I'm hesitant to do anything more from here.
In principle the above information should still be somewhere on my Time Capsule - but I need help to do the restore better than my first try above. It's worth many years of work...
Hoping for your help. Chris
Aperture 3, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)