Comments on: Aperture Library – Slimming the Size

By: cleaning up my Aperture library | D'Arcy Norman dot net

cleaning up my Aperture library | D'Arcy Norman dot net — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:39:52 +0000

[...] My Aperture library tends to grow much larger than it should. It seems as though Aperture does not delete the thumbnails for photographs even when deleting the originals, leaving several gigabytes of orphaned kruft behind, accumulating bits, filling up volumes. I delete most of the photos I shoot, so the majority of thumbnails in my library are orphaned. But there’s a quick and easy way to clean it up. After backing up the entire library, I did this (after a blog post by Brett Gross): [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:46:13 +0000

Good article – I just tried this with the find command – and one update…

I needed to use “Thumbnails” “Minis” and “Tinies” (Note the case sensitivity)

Also, you can use -print instead of the -delete command for peace of mind to check you’re getting the right files before deleting them!

By: brett

brett — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:39:26 +0000

I used the Unix find command.

To do this, open Terminal and type ‘find ‘ (don’t forget the space), drop your Aperture Library icon onto the Terminal window from the Finder, then type ‘ -name “*.thumb” -delete” and hit Return. Replace ‘thumb’ with ‘tinies’ ‘minis’, or whatever you want to delete.

The finished command would look like:
find /Pictures/Test -name “*.tinies” -delete

Make sure you update your Vaults before doing this so you can revert if you have to.

By: Rosie

Rosie — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:35:44 +0000

I think this is exactly what I need. I have 21,000 files, all referenced. I cant wait to try it!
However, I am wondering if you know a quick way to delete all the .thumb .tinies .minis in the package contents other than doing it by hand, one by one?
Many Thanks for the hint!

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:11:13 +0000

Genius!
Thanks a lot… once I’m done with the library rebuild, that’s next on the hit parade…

By: Optimality! » Using Aperture with JPEGs and G4/G5 Hardware

Optimality! » Using Aperture with JPEGs and G4/G5 Hardware — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:49:10 +0000

[...] to be separate issue with Aperture not properly cleaning up its database when images are removed. This post discusses a method that reduces the size of a Project’s the thumbnail file. In short, you [...]

By: Paulino Michelazzo

Paulino Michelazzo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:32:14 +0000

Very nice trick. I tested in my library with 70GB and I reduce more than 8GB.

Good, very very good.

Best