When I import photos I always choose “store in Aperture Library”. I know that Aperture & iPhoto use the same library however when I look at my pictures folder using finder I have 2 libraries (Aperture & iPhoto). All the pictures are in the iPhoto library and the Aperture library is empty. Should I have merged the libraries when I installed 3.5? I’ve seen an article on how to merge iPhoto libraries. Does this apply to merging Aperture/iPhoto libraries?
“store in Aperture Library” is a general term to say that you're keeping managed images in the main database. I may seem that you started with iPhoto and then moved to Aperture, as such the library has maintained the name iPhoto Library. I don't think you'll have any issues moving forward, but if you prefer to have everything properly named and managed in Aperture you can always follow these directions: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5296
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Thanks Chris. In fact I managed to find this article before your reply and have “imported” my iPhoto library into Aperture. I guess I didn’t need to do this really as I could have pointed Aperture at the iPhoto (named) library. Anyway thanks for your response.
Glad it worked out!
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