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BostonBob Author

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migrating from Aperture to Photos retain Faces

I recently migrated from Aperture to Photos 3.0. I specifically used the method of opening the Aperture file via Photos Iessentially converting the data file) to retain Faces data. Generally it went very smoothly, except for some reason a significant amount of the of the Faces didn't migrate. I can still open the data file in Aperture and see that the Faces are still tagged correctly, but the same picture in Photos shows the people as unnamed. Both applications are sharing the same data file, so why some and not others? I have not seen a pattern. I have a full backup and can re-do the process if necessary. Any suggestions?

Posted on Apr 23, 2018 5:55 AM

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LarryHN

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Posted on Apr 23, 2018 9:15 AM

1 - Aperture and Photos do not share a datafile - there are two totally separate libraries, one for Aperture and one for Photos

2 - this user tip may help with the migration - Notes on Migrating an Aperture Library from Aperture to Photos for Mac

and these links (while for iPhoto still give more information on the migration process including how they libraries what the same data while being seperate libraries by using hard links) -- : Links to User tips re migrating from iPhoto to Photos

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