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Q: I can see all my old Aperture photos in Photos, but not as albums. How do I do that?

Hi,

I have moved all my photos from Aperture to Photos and I can see them all. However, under Albums in Photos they do not show up, only a few of them. How do I make sure, that I get all my old Aperture albums over to Photos?

Thanks much

iMac G5, Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Sep 13, 2015 5:25 AM

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Q: I can see all my old Aperture photos in Photos, but not as albums. How do I do that?

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  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Sep 13, 2015 5:32 AM in response to Flugt
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    Sep 13, 2015 5:32 AM in response to Flugt
    I have moved all my photos from Aperture to Photos and I can see them all.

     

    How did you do that?  DId you open your Aperture library in Photos?

    All your albums should appear in Photos, but not all Smart Albums. Are the missing albums Smart Albums?

    Smart albums using metadata that are not available in Photos will not work.

     

    See this support page:  How Photos handles content and metadata from iPhoto and Aperture - Apple Support

     

     

    Photos and organization:

    • Photos and movies migrate without changes. Photos migrate with the adjustments and filters you applied in Aperture. You can't modify the adjustments in Photos, but you can revert to the original image.
    • Projects and subfolders migrate to a folder labeled “Aperture Projects" and a folder labeled "iPhoto Events" in the Albums view.
    • Albums are preserved in Photos.
    • Most Smart Albums are preserved in Photos. Smart Albums with selection criteria that isn’t supported by Photos usually migrate to Smart Albums with "(modified)" added to the Smart Album name; in cases where none of the Smart Album criteria are supported in Photos, the Smart Album isn't migrated.
    • Photo books migrate to Albums.
    • Slideshows are preserved in Photos. If a slideshow's theme is not available in Photos, it uses Photo's default slideshow theme.

    Keywords and other metadata:

    • Keywords are preserved in Photos.
    • Photos preserves user-defined titles. Images without user-defined titles will show as "untitled" in Photos.
    • Star ratings migrate as similar keywords in Photos, such as “1 Star,” “2 Stars,” and so on.
    • Flagged images migrate with the keyword “Flagged” and appear in the “Flagged” Smart Album in the Albums view.
    • Color labels migrate as keywords, such as “Green” and "Purple.”
    • Captions are preserved in Photos.
    • Most metadata is preserved in Photos. Some IPTC metadata, including Copyright, won't appear in Photos, but is still associated with the image and can be seen in iPhoto, Aperture, and other applications that display IPTC metadata.
    • Custom metadata fields don't migrate to Photos.
  • by Flugt,

    Flugt Flugt Sep 13, 2015 5:35 AM in response to léonie
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    Sep 13, 2015 5:35 AM in response to léonie

    Hi Leonie,

    Thanks.

    They were moved as part of the installation of Photos. They are not smart albums. There are a few albums in Photos, but a fair chunk is still missing from the original Aperture structure

  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Sep 14, 2015 7:39 AM in response to Flugt
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    Sep 14, 2015 7:39 AM in response to Flugt

    Are you using iCloud Photo Library?  A few forum members reported, that their albums vanished, if they first enabled iCloud Photo Library on a MAc and afterwards on an iOS device (iPad, iPhone).  The sequence is important. First enable iCloud on the iPad/iPhone, then on the Mac.

    If that should be the problem in your case, try to migrate the Aperture Library again.   Are all albums still there correctly, when you open the library in Aperture? You may need to change the filename extension of the library from ".migratedaplibrary" to ".aplibrary".  If all albums are still there, then make a current backup, and repair the library in Aperture (Launch Aperture, while holding down the key combination option-command, select "Repair library" from the first aid panel).

     

    Then drag the repaired Aperture Library onto the Photos icon to migrate it again to Photos.

  • by Flugt,

    Flugt Flugt Sep 14, 2015 7:43 AM in response to léonie
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    Sep 14, 2015 7:43 AM in response to léonie

    Hi,

    Thanks much.

    Since this is my blood line so to speak with all the photos of my family over many years, I really want to make sure, that I understand you correct before moving on:

    1. I am making a back up right now of Aperture original library

    2. The library is called aplibrary and not migratedaplibrary as you indicate in your reply. Does this make any difference

    3. After the back up should I then copy the original library into a different name before launching Aperture in repair library

    4. This renamed library I then drag to the Photos icon to migrate it agailn

     

    Have I understood you correctly?

    Thanks for your kind patience

     

    Jesper

  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Sep 14, 2015 8:35 AM in response to Flugt
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    Sep 14, 2015 8:35 AM in response to Flugt

    2. The library is called aplibrary and not migratedaplibrary as you indicate in your reply. Does this make any difference

    That depends, Jesper.  When you migrate an Aperture Library to Photos, the Photos.app will rename the filename extension of the migrated Aperture library to ".migratedaplibrary".  When you open that library again in Aperture the filename extension will switch back to Aperture.  If the file extension of your Aperture Library is ".aplibrary", you either did never migrate that library to Photos and another library has been migrated than you thought, or you already opened this library again in Aperture after the migration.

     

    Yes to the other points.

    Léonie

  • by Flugt,

    Flugt Flugt Sep 14, 2015 8:39 AM in response to léonie
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    Sep 14, 2015 8:39 AM in response to léonie

    Thanks Leoni,

     

    I realise that I am taking much of your time on this and your support is highly appreciated.

    All my photos from Aperture is in Photos today, so they must have been migrated (just not the albums).

    Is the solution then still to rename the original Aperture library and migrate that to Photos? Do I need to perform a repair of Aperture first?

     

    Thanks again

     

    Jesper

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Sep 14, 2015 8:46 AM in response to Flugt
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    Sep 14, 2015 8:46 AM in response to Flugt

    All my photos from Aperture is in Photos today, so they must have been migrated (just not the albums).

    Is the solution then still to rename the original Aperture library and migrate that to Photos? Do I need to perform a repair of Aperture first?

    Yes, make sure you have a backup copy of the Aperture library, then repair it and migrate it again.

    Hopefully, after repairing the albums will be migrated better.

     

    Since the filename extension is already correct, no renaming is necessary.