My first Aperture-ate-my-photos moment

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Johanfoto
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Re: Correction: Aperture only 'misplaced' the images
In reply to noirdesir, 4 months ago

noirdesir wrote:

Johanfoto wrote:

noirdesir wrote:

webfrasse wrote:

noirdesir wrote:

I only noticed now that all the missing images were actually inside an 'Untitled' project. So, Aperture did not completely loose track of the images, it just lost track which project they belonged to.

Do you rename the original files on import? If you do you could simply have searched the library for them (given that you would have a known file name or pattern), correct? I guess you could search on file name either way.

My workflow includes renaming every file, YYYYMMDD_Event_Name.filetype. That way it's easy to filter and search on file names.

No, I didn't rename them but you are right, this would be a good thing to do as it adds another layer of protection at no cost really.

I always rename on import, but you don't have to do that in order to search for your images. Aperture can search on capture date, including a range of capture dates.

In my case, going into the 'All images' view and sorting by (capture) date did not show them.

I didn't say 'sort', I said 'search'. Even if the images do not show in the 'all images' overview, they may show if you do a specific search for them. If not, Aperture really lost them and I would consider replacing the library from a backup in that case. As you said yourself: you don't know if you have lost other images too.

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