Hi Joseph and all you nice fellow photographers!
This is more of an annoyance than a problem. I have a workflow in which as soon as the month is over, I relocate originals from the Photostream album from within the Aperture Library to my hard disk (basically move them from managed to referenced), move the photos to another album and delete the original album e.g. April 2013 Photo Stream. However, upon next launch of Aperture, this album with 0 photos in it, is created again automatically and I delete it manually. Yet, it comes back on the next launch.
Any ideas how to permanently get rid of it?
First of all, you are mixing up some Aperture terminology. Those are projects you are talking about, not albums.
I have a couple of suggestions. But since I don’t do what you are doing, I can’t confirm it will work.
1. Disable automatic import from Photo Stream in Aperture’s preferences. When you have new images in Photo Stream, manually drag and drop them to your desired project.
2. Instead of creating a new project to move your Photo Stream images to, just rename the one Aperture automatically creates. Aperture knows this is the same project it created and will keep adding new Photo Stream images (from the same month) to it. In this case you can keep the automatic import preference turned on. If you need more than one project per month, just make sure one of those projects is the one Aperture created automatically and then renamed by you. Create the others yourself and drag the images you want from the automatic project to your other project. I think Aperture keeps track of which images from photo stream it imported so if you move it or delete it, it won’t try to reimport.
That’s all I’ve got. Give it a try.
Thomas
I wanted to add another option although you probably won’t like this one:
3. Delete all the images from Photo Stream after they’ve been imported into a project in Aperture. I’m guessing that if there are no images in Photo Stream for a particular month, Aperture won’t attempt to create that month’s project.
Like I tried to say above, I haven’t tested any of these options. But they sound plausible to me.
Thomas
I have experienced this as well and have no resolution for it.
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To delete photos from Photostream permanently, follow the steps:
Step 1: Login to your iCloud account on iCloud.com from a Mac or PC.
Step 2: Click on your name at the top right of the main iCloud page.
Step 3: Click on the Advanced option.
Step 4: Click “Reset Photo Stream”. You will then need to confirm.
Step 5: This Photo Stream reset will not go into effect until you toggle Photo Stream on and off on your devices. In iOS, Photo Stream can be turned off and on in the iCloud settings window of the Settings app.