I moved to a new iMac 27, maxed out. It's beautiful and fast beyond belief, but. I put the Aperture Library in the SSD and the masters in the HDD, but now the versions have lost their links to their masters. Is it possible to rename the hard drives, so the HDD drive would be called Macintosh HD (like in the old computer) and the SSD drive would be called something else? Would that fix the problem? I know I can relink the files, but I have thousands of photos.
Grace,
Congrat’s on the new purchase! So you got the SSD+HDD combo. Sweet. I imagine that’ll be one screaming setup.
Renaming isn’t going to be enough, so I wouldn’t bother with that. However as long as your structure didn’t change (i.e. your folder paths from, say, an “Aperture Masters” folder on down hasn’t been altered), then you should only have to point the way to one file and the rest will (hopefully) automatically connect. It doesn’t *always* work, and I can’t say why it sometimes doesn’t, but one step at a time.
Are you familiar with how the Locate Referenced Files command works? If not I’ll outline it for you. But that’s where you need to start.
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
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It works on a project-by-project basis. This is going to take a really long time, I’m afraid.
Grace,
If you load the Photos view, and select Locate Referenced Files, it should access all your photos at once [screenshot].
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
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