Comments on: Aperture AppleScript – Export & Restore Metadata

By: Onkol Consulting

Onkol Consulting — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:11:30 +0000

Thank you very much…

By: Tim Watt

Tim Watt — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:30:45 +0000

Hi.

Thanks for this – it could be very useful….

However, having tried the export script it doesn’t seem to do anything after the images in a project are chosen. No text file I can find is exported.

Could this be relevant:

set srcFile to choose file
– set srcFile to alias “BG_MBP2:Users:brett:Desktop:Aperture-Metadata.txt”

Is this specific do your desktop and does it need to be changed?

Thanks, Tim

By: brett

brett — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:34:22 +0000

Ouch! The script should not be able to corrupt a master file. It only reads from and writes to the Aperture database. Perhaps your Aperture database is damaged. You can rebuild your Library by holding Command-Option when you launch Aperture. Sometimes that can really help when things aren’t quite working right.

By: pandalong

pandalong — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:36:43 +0000

Thank you for your prompt reply. Unfortunately, this has corrupted the chosen file and I had to remove it from Aperture, then find it back from backups and re-edit metadata… I really don’t understand what has happened.

By: brett

brett — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:42:49 +0000

You can run the script from within Script Editor or from the Script menu item. You can enable the script menu by opening the AppleScript Utility (/Applications/AppleScript/) and checking ‘Show Script menu in menu bar’ – this will show a little scroll icon in the menu bar. Then open Aperture and activate the Scripts (scroll) menu and choose Open Scripts Folder > Open Aperture Scripts Folder. A folder will open in Finder and any AppleScript you put in there will show in the Scripts menu.

By: pandalong

pandalong — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:30:18 +0000

Hello, your script seems exaclty what I am currently looking for. But it’s not clear how to install it inside Aperture so that it can export custom metadata from within the application. Thank you very much for clarification.