Add “Original File Name” suffix without file extension?

Hi Leonie,

That’s a good suggestion, except I only have this issue with my photo, film & slide scans. Using your method, the date would display as the scan date — not the date the photo was taken.

This minor issue is a result of my arcane work-flow for organizing my old (non-digital) photos. I may have a thousand or so old photos in a given year — a mixture of slides, film & prints. I organize the entire year manually and estimate the dates for all photos. I manually rename each image by the estimated date until they are organized as well as possible. There is considerable “renaming” of the photos during this process, since photos I review later may cause me to “re-date” the earlier photos. Once the year is organized, I append the file name to the date so it is obvious where the original image came from. The file name identifies the film roll, slide box or photo album where the original photo exists.

However, I may be able to partially use your suggestion by simply adding the date as a prefix while going through this organizing process, thereby keeping the version name without an extension.

This is a pretty trivial issue — I just wanted to confirm I wasn’t missing something. I think you, and the others who responded made it clear that I am not “missing anything.” There appears to be no way to do exactly what I wanted to accomplish. Aperture already does 95% of what I need, so I have little to complain about (except its’ limited life-span!).

Thanks!

Thanks for your reply leicanerd,

I’m using Aperture 3.6 (latest/last version) on a 2009 Mac Pro running OS X Yosemite (10.10.5). I use Aperture on this OS since it was the last version officially supported by Aperture and should have the fewest bugs.

I rechecked my VueScan Output settings (the software I use for scanning). It adds “.tif” by default if the image is scanned as a tiff file. This can’t be changed. However, I can delete the “.tif” (manually, or with a file renamer as Terence suggested), but this does not help.

The files without an extension are imported with the tif file extension as part of the file name. The default version name does not include tif file extension — perhaps this is what you are looking at? However, when I use the Batch Change function in Aperture to rename the Version with the file name, it always adds the .tif extension to the new version name.

I'm not sure if there is a solution to this. It’s not a huge deal, but thought I may be missing something simple.

Thanks for your reply Terence,

I use a file renamer occasionally, but removing the tif extension before importing into Aperture doesn’t help. Aperture will add the extension to the file name on import — at least in my managed library. Perhaps this isn’t the case with a referenced library(?). The default version name does not include tif file extension after I first import the file, but when I use the Batch Change function to rename the Version with the file name, it always adds the .tif extension to the new version name.

Perhaps there is a way to remove the extension from the "new" Version name, but I haven't figured out how to do this (except manually).