Hi,

I am new to aperture and was wondering if below approach would be good in my case:
I have loads of pictures on an external drive and need to keep them on the external drive due to memory issues. So I need to go for “referenced” master files.
My pictures are not organised at all and I still need to go through all of them either to delete, edit and organise. At the moment, the pictures are in folders per year.But then within each year there is a huge mess of folders etc ….
I noticed when I import my files as “referenced”, and I want to delete the master file using aperture, the master file is still on my external drive. So I was thinking to import “one” year into aperture and import it as a “managed”. Once I have deleted the ones I don't want, I could rename the master files and export them / relocate them on the external drive and have them again as “referenced” master files to free space on my hard disk. Having the “master files” managed while I work (deleting and editing) on them might be more efficient as I don't need to linked to the external drive to do this. Once I finish with one year and have the masters back as referenced, I do the same process with the other years, and this year by year. Would this approach be good in my case?
Many thanks