When importing (adding) a Aperture library file to my main Library, many errors are introduced, including linking to the wrong referenced originals (masters). Have others reported this? How do you work around?
I have only seen a similar problem after testing cleaning applications like CleanMyMac.Did you try similar application?
But if an Aperture library has a slight corruption, it can get worse after importing another library.
You could repair both libraries before trying to merge them by importing. See this manual page on how to repair the library: http://documentation.apple.com/en/aperture/usermanual/index.html#chapter=27%26se ction=10%26tasks=true
In any case I would make a backup copy of both libraries before trying to merge libraries.
If the links to the referenced originals are apparently wrong, you might want to rebuild the thumbnails:
Select the images with the wrong link and use the command "Photos > Generate Thumbnails" to recreate the thumbnails.
Thanks, léonie - I was hoping you would answer. Didn't use a cleaning application. Did repair both library files before merging. Haven't tried updating thumbnails to fix links - will try tonight. I tried to rebuild the main library, but the attempt failed. I may use the importing into empty library trick to see if that helps. I have plenty of SSD space. P.S. I find this new discussion format hard to use.
I may use the importing into empty library trick to see if that helps.
If that too should fail, try to restore the library from the backup before you first tried to merge the library
Aperture never ceases to amaze me - not that I don't still love it. After once again backing up my main library, I tried rebuilding again. This time the rebuild "completed", but let the library in a weird state. It would not display any photos in any view. The number of files shown to the right of Recent > Rejected in the Library Inspector was around 1/4 million - approximately the number of photos in the library. Having go that far, I decided to see if I could get anywhere by pushing further, so I restarted Aperture and asked it to Repair (not Rebuild). The repair didn't take long, and resulted in my library being in pretty good shape. I still needed to reconnect a bunch of originals, but this helped a lot. There are still some bad links between Versions and Files - redoing the thumbnails did not fix them. For those, I need to reimport, and then Lift and Stamp onto the reimported ones.
Even crazier: the project I had deleted and was attempting to import showed up in my library!
I think we need to maintain a detailed list of features required in Photos to make it a passable substitute for Aperture, and keep bombarding apple.com/feedback with it.
Even crazier: the project I had deleted and was attempting to import showed up in my library!
Did the project show up in a Recovered Items Project?
When Aperture is repairing a library and fixing broken links, it will collect orphaned page files that could not be deleted properly in a"recovered Items" project. I also found photos that I had tried to import, where Aperture crashed during the import, in a Recovered Items project after repairing the library.
Nope. It showed up right where it used to be, with the correct name!
That is even better 😁
Importing (adding) a library file corrupts contents.
