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Using Shared Photo Stream Instead of Sync for iOS Device Galleries

PhotoJoseph's picture
January 1, 2013 - 7:31am

Those of us that have iPads know that they are a fantastic way to show off your favorite photos, wether it’s to a potential client or to grandma over the holidays. The problem is, syncing your photos to your iPad can be a bit of a chore. We’ve gone through loads of different options and ways to do this, which gets especially complicated when managing multiple libraries, but I recently realized that there’s a much better solution to this.

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Google+ ApertureExpert Community

PhotoJoseph's picture
December 22, 2012 - 5:02am

Hi all,

For those of you on G+ (and I’m sure that’s a lot of you!) I’ve opened an ApertureExpert community there. I’m honestly not sure what to do with it, as I do like keeping the support forum here on ApertureExpert, but part of me thinks it’s a good idea to have that one running, too. Maybe it’s a bad idea though, and I’m open to suggestions!

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2012; Aperture by the Numbers

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December 19, 2012 - 10:00pm

The viewer will display the number of images at the bottom.

Take Stock of Where You’ve Been

At the end of every year I like to look my Aperture library and take stock. It helps me plan for the coming year. For instance, a quick look at January tells me I’ll be shooting my first Major League Soccer practice at the end of the month — so I’ll start thinking about that now.

I also like to look at the numbers. For four years I archived between 90,000 and 110,000 images per year — this year I set a record with over 137,181 images in my Aperture library! This does not even account for the weddings I shot and archived in a separate library.[more]

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Sandboxed Preferences for Aperture

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December 14, 2012 - 2:22am

I was looking to trash my Mail.app preferences this morning and I know I’d looked before, and hadn’t found them. The file used to be com.apple.mail.plist and located in ~/Library/Preferences/ however that file no longer exists (and if it does, it’s just a holdover from a previous OS). Finally today I found a discussion online that explained because Mail.app is a “sandboxed” app, that the preferences have moved to a new location. And what else did I find in this new location?

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Constantly Rebuilding Thumbnails Issue with Aperture 3.4.x

PhotoJoseph's picture
November 28, 2012 - 11:24am

I’ve had at least two readers reporting a problem a thumbnail rebuild issue. If this sounds like something you’re running into, please try the solution below and let us know in the comments if it did or didn’t help — or if you have any kind of related problem.

Symptom

On every launch, Aperture starts rebuilding thumbnails (even though it doesn’t appear to need to). If you stop the rebuild, all is fine, but it will start up again on next launch. Odds are it’s always starting with the same number of images to rebuild; i.e. you see 78,415 thumbnails rebuilding, and you have 120,000 image in your library. So it’s likely not all of them, but most of them. Or more accurately, a single bad apple that’s ruining the batch.

Treatment

You may have tried repairing permissions, repairing and rebuilding the database… trashing preferences… repairing hard drive… reinstalling Aperture… and more, all to no avail. You’ve tried manually rebuilding the thumbs, letting it complete, but it still starts over on next launch. Ugh!

Cure

Well, this worked for one customer — hopefully it will work for you, too.[more]

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Cyber Monday on MediaBytes

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November 27, 2012 - 7:56am

UPDATE: There’s actually a discount code on top of this; use CYBERMONDAY on checkout for $20 off, making it just $27 for the series! (If you already bought today at $47 from my link below, just let Frederick know and he’ll take care of you — my mistake for missing the code earlier!)

Hi folks,

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Black Friday Sale

PhotoJoseph's picture
November 25, 2012 - 5:41am

Hello readers!

In case you missed the news on the twittters, the facebook, the Google+, or the Newsletter, here it is again… 

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