I am reluctantly preparing to move my ~200GB Aperture library to Photos and was wondering how Photos will handle PROJECTS in this conversion. Specifically, the organizational structure of my library consists of approximately 30 FOLDERS, wherein are nested hundreds of PROJECTS. If I preform the conversion, how will these FOLDERS and PROJECTS be organized in Photos?
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), null
Photos does not support projects. The basic library items are moments. The moments are created automatically, based on the capture dates and locations. You cannot control how moments are split or move images between moments. There are no folders to group related moments. This has been replaced by collections and years.
The only folders you can create are folders for albums and smart albums. Your projects will be replaced by albums, grouped into folders with the same names as in Aperture.
You will see differences for other library items as well - the smart albums may not show the same photos as before, because Photos does not support all constraints, your books may look different because of different templates. You keywords will be replaced by a flat structure, and images with brushed adjustments will migrate like externally edited, with a new quasi master.
I posted a user tip with a few notes on the migration: Notes on Migrating an Aperture Library from Aperture to Photos for Mac
Thank you Léonie! Your explanation was extremely helpful and you answered my question.
You're welcome. 🙂 Did you read the document Larry pointed to as well?
Good Luck for the migration. Make sure you upgrade your Aperture 3 to Aperture 3.6 while it is still available, I'm not sure, if it will be possible, once El Capitan will be released at the end of the month.
How are Aperture Projects handled in Photos?
