As I understand the filing system, all photos in any album are, in fact, located in a project. When viewing a photo in an album how do I determine which project it is filed under? Similarly, when selecting a photo in a project how do I find the album in which it may be viewed (if it has been assigned to an album?
Thanks for the suggestions, Jim. I will experiment with smart albums.
Well I can answer part 1 of your question. When in an album, right click on the image you want to trace back to an event. Select Show In Project which is half way down the menu.
AFAIK, there isn’t a way to display the album(s) that a specific photo or photos reside in. If I’m wrong, hopefully someone will jump in and provide some enlightenment. There might be a way to do it using Applescript.
Another way to display the projects that images reside in is to use list view. One advantage to list view is that you can display the project name and path for all the photos in a given album.
Thanks, Bob, for answering half my question. The reason for the second part of my question is that, when purging a project of those photos which I don’t want to retain I don’t want to inadvertently trash a photo which I have placed in an album. Maybe some other approach is possible.
Brian,
If you only want to know if “purged projects” contain photos used in “any” albums, as opposed to “specific album names”… you can do it via a smart album.
Inside the project… include a smart album (usage scope restricted to the project) with the criteria:
- Aperture Metadata > Album Name > Is not Empty
If any pictures show up… then you know they are being used in an album.
Hope this helps.
/Jim
/Jim Pappas
Testing my suggestion… it looks like “album” photos get picked up… but “smart album photos” do not.
You can probably use keywords to indicate album usage (but that might not work well for temporary albums since keywords are hard to remove.
You can also assign colors to pictures in albums… the only downside is that (afaik) a photo can only have one color label… so that limits how you might otherwise be using labels. Also, there are flags, captions and other ways to mark photos.
In any case… some ingenuity on creating smart albums can probably help you make sure that you are not purging important projects.
/Jim
/Jim Pappas