1. I want to strip all my images of their KEYWORDS and re-keyword my entire library. Is there a fairly simple way of doing so?
2. Do you have any comments on the functionality of a small vs. large aperture library file? I run an entirely REFERENCED library (i have libraries for all the different types of shoots I do, but my wedding library is about 130gb now and I'm not sure if it's time to split it in half)
Thanks so much
Brian
You could use batch change to replace the keywords.
Hi Brian, welcome to the site.
1. Chris is right, here’s the steps. Go to the Photos view (under the Library tab) which will show you ALL your pictures. Select all of them, then go to menu MetaData > Batch Change…, and near the bottom choose a preset that include Keywords. Enable Keywords, keep it blank, and be sure to select Replace. The field will read “Clear Values”. Click OK and all keywords will be history! [screenshot]
2. Aperture 3 made great strides towards improved performance on extremely large libraries. I have several but primarily that’s because I use different ones for testing, projects that I’m sharing, etc. However for my own photography, I only have two. One for a particular client, and one for everything else. My main library has something like 150,000 images (referenced of course), and honestly I know photographers with MUCH larger than that.
It comes down to workflow, not performance.
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
@PhotoJoseph
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