First of all - awesome website. I have been using Aperture for 3 years now, and this is by far the best stuff put together.
Maybe, some of you can help me with this: When in Aperture (3.1.1.) and I click on all Projects view, most of them are represented by photos (similar to iPhoto view of all events) but some aren't. I have the “Show number of versions for projects and albums” activated in Preferences. And I observed that the projects that do not show any photos but rather empty “square” also show 0 as a number of versions in them. The strange thing is that when I browse the inspector, I see the project and when I click to open the albums in it they are all there and each album has the number of versions in it. However the Project still states 0. Also when I click on the project in the inspector it doesn't show any photos while the projects containing albums which also show the number of total versions in all albums combined show me all the photos when I click on them.
It's not a big deal, I have lived with it for a few years now but if anyone knows how to solve this I would appreciate it. My library has more than 28.000 photos that total almost 450GB so reimporting from scratch is not something I look forward to. Thank you!
Jan,
Thanks for the complements, I’m glad you’re enjoying the site.
It sounds to me like you have projects with populated albums, but the project themselves are empty. This is entirely possible; think of the project like a box of negatives, and the albums as envelopes of prints. You can have no negatives in a box, but still have prints in the envelopes that come from negatives in other boxes.
Check out this [screenshot].
The project Empty Project is empty, and has a count of zero. If I select that project, I’ll see an empty browser.
The project Full Project has a single photo in it. I’ve then added that same photo to the Album full album in empty project. If you select that album, you’ll see the photo.
The representation of that photo is in the Album, but the actual photo itself is not. The master is in the Full Project.
Does that make sense?
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
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Joseph it does make sense! Great example with the box and envelopes. You can see a snapshot of my “issue” here https://skitch.com/gordito73/rwdcu/skitch
1) How can I “add” the photos from Albums to the Projects as well?
2) How is it possible that I have some Projects containing Albums yet the project is empty and some have Albums yet they are not empty? I do understand your explanation above, however I wonder which steps to take to achieve one or another?
Thank you
Jan
Jan,
As far as how you got there, all it takes is creating an empty project and then creating albums in it. But I’m guessing you migrated from iPhoto? Certain project setups in iPhoto will be created as you have them in Aperture. I don’t recall offhand which, I just know I’ve seen it before.
As for fixing it, you can select an image in one of the albums that’s in an empty project, right-click on it and choose Show in Project. Now that you know where the original is, you can decide if you want to move the original photo into the empty project, or move the full albums into the projects where those photos actually live.
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
@PhotoJoseph
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