I've been doing a massive cleanup of my aperture library. I never usually delete my reject, but seeing as each raw image is 20mb, i decided it was time to clean up instead of buying a new harddrive.
So for the last few days (hours and hours) I've hand picked images and put them in the aperture trash. I accumulated thousands of images in the aperture trash, and then I emptied the trash. I accidentally did NOT check “move referenced files to trash”…
my question, how in the world do I delete the master images off the harddrive now?? The images are only deleted from the aperture application, but they still exist on the harddrive. the unused master images (that were supposed to be deleted) are mixed in with active master files that I want to keep. How do I separate the two so I can delete the rejects?
Sharp Joseph. Very sharp.
My excuse is that I only use Managed. :)
Oh … you wouldn’t have learned this one from experience would you Joseph? (GDAR).
Sorry Joe I don’t know. Which is why I didn’t answer earlier. Good news is you will remember that check box from now on. I haven’t tried this but if you try to import images from the folders where they are stored and make sure “DoNot Import Duplicates” are on/checked. Don’t import but get the file names that show up, and delete them manually. Or do import them and then do a filter search for last import and re-delete them with your favorite check box checked. go slowly and be carefully cuz I don’t know it that will work…just a thought.
davidbmoore@mac.com
Twitter= @davidbmoore
Scottsdale AZ
Do you have a Time Machine, or other backup (Vault) from before you emptied the Trash?
Other than that I’d make a copy library and go with David’s suggestion to import, excluding duplicates, labelling them red or something on import.
Hey guys,
David, Grant, c’mon, you guys are part of my brain trust! You can do better than that ;-) hehe
Try this on for size…
Select all photos in the Library and relocate masters to another location on the same drive. It’s a move, not a copy, so will happen very fast and won’t take up any additional space (although you may need some overhead). Any files left behind in the original masters folder are unused by Aperture — aka, deleted.
voilà ;-)
-Joseph
@PhotoJoseph
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Once again I am humbled by your knowledge. :) Cheers
davidbmoore@mac.com
Twitter= @davidbmoore
Scottsdale AZ