Read the 15 tips guide,
Not sure which way to go
The situation:
As would some would be aware, I'm new to Mac and Aperture,
I had a large amount on FAT32 formatted HDD's
Finally, I have a heap of images on 2 new HDD's for the Mac
Read the bit about files in trash, scared me somewhat!
Now, I have all I need on “Managed” and still a heap referenced due to the iMac SSD size and don't want to loose them all, been a heap of work as Ive had to re-edit every one of them as Nikon CNX2 lost the edits as soon as i opened them in Aperture
I held “shift command delete” on the trash folder and I got the box saying,
“are you sure you want to permanently delete all items in the trash”
and,
A box to tick,
“move referenced files to system trash”
Questions:
1. If I just enter delete without ticking the box, does it only delete the files in the trash?
2. If I tick the box, ” move referenced files to trash”
Do I loose all my referenced files? Or just the ones that have been deleted?
Sorry Joseph, I did read the guide I downloaded but not sure I understand the consequences of the above actions
Hate to have to start all over, must have spent 100 hrs already!
Regards,
Gary
In general I would suggest if in doubt, experiment with a small sample! You could colour code most of the files (say) yellow, put them back and then play with a small number. But anyway, to answer the question:
Emptying Aperture trash removes files you have deleted and put there only, nothing else.
If you empty trash without moving to system trash the referenced files stay where they are clogging up the disk. Aperture will just delete the previews and metadata from Aperture. That’s almost certainly not what you want.
If you empty trash and move the referenced files to system trash it takes the referenced masters from the referenced location and sends them to system trash as well as removing metadata/previews from Aperture.
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Thank you David
That sounds good!
I’m guessing the referenced files and previews that are not in the trash are not going the get deleted?
…Gary
Gary
It’s never done that to me! I prefer to empty trash by selecting a menu item rather than pressing keys. But I daringly pressed Shift-Cmd-Delete on my trash and got the same message as the menu gives.
But you are well backed up, aren’t you?
David
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“But you are well backed up, aren’t you?”
I hope so!
….Gary
Hi David,
Thank you for your guidance and encouragement.
All done, without any catastrophic consequences, (I think!)
Deleted the files in Aperture, (included previews)
Selected trash on the dock
Emptied trash in the finder
Hooked up one of my backup drives
Opened and edited a “referenced” file………all good!
Finally,
There was a huge amount sitting there, 185GB !,
My 768GB SSD is looking healthy once again, didn’t realise how much would be sitting there
I have, pretty much this years files on the iMac, except for the odd project from past files I’m still working with
Not only happy with the above result, also happy with Aperture,
I’ve had to “re-do” a lot of edits until I got the hang of the adjustments,
now I’m happy with the look
….Gary