Comments on: Selective Import in Aperture 3

By: brett

brett — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:58:29 +0000

Actually, you can sort by pretty much any attribute. On my Aperture setup, there is a sort popup at the top of the grid view that allows sorting by the most common attributes.

By: yellaflow

yellaflow — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:01:29 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Just switched from iPhoto to Aperture and made my first import. Was worried there for a moment when I didn’t see an ‘Import Selected’ button. There also doesn’t seem to be a way to sort photos to be imported by date, name etc in Grid View unlike in iPhoto, without switching to List View (yet another additional step they could have eliminated easily).

By: brett

brett — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:55:32 +0000

Wopke-

That’s a tough one. Aperture doesn’t have any way to read Stacks via AppleScript. You can determine if an image is a Stack Pick or not but not which images belong to which stacks.

If you have the Stack collapsed and select its Pick Image then AppleScript only sees that image as selected. If you open the Stack and select all of the images in the Stack then AppleScript can see all of the selected images.

Are all of the images named in some way that you can determine which images belong together based on their names? If so, can you provide me with an example of some names?

Thanks-

By: Wopke

Wopke — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:21:07 +0000

Hi Brett,

Just wondering whether you can help me with getting rid of all the stacks that have been created after importing an iPhoto library into Aperture.
I would like to copy metadata from the iPhoto Original in the stack to the iPhoto Edited in the same stack and then delete the iPhoto Original (thus getting rid of the stack, I assume). I can do this manually but I have about 3000 stacks….

Any guidance would be highly appreciated!

Wopke

By: Ed Fladung

Ed Fladung — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:37:20 +0000

This for me has to be labeled as a degradation of the the user interface, a really poor user interface design decision. In V2 I never made a mistake and imported all of the images on the card when I wanted only selected images. Now you have to:

1. Click the deselect images button
2. Select the images you want
3. Click the check button on one of the images.

in Version 2:

1. Select the images you want

Does anyone see a reason for taking a 1 step operation and turning it into a 3 step operation?

By: bkidd

bkidd — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:24:27 +0000

awesome! thanks.

By: Damon

Damon — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:09:25 +0000

Thank you for this hint! I find this method of selective checking very unintuitive.

By: brett

brett — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:01:02 +0000

No problem. I’m glad to see people building on what I have done.

Thanks!

By: sven

sven — Sun, 02 May 2010 16:47:14 +0000

Hi brett,

found a way to find the path of aperture3 libraries based on your work on aperture2. This line will get you the image path of the masters of the selected images:

“select imagePath from RKMaster where UUID=(select masteruuid from RKversion where uuid=’” & uuid & “‘)” & quote

uuid is the image id.

For more info:
http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/digital-post-processing-forum/117334-aperture-3-0-1-metadata-information-3.html#post1317834

Sorry for spamming your comments – I have not found your mail address.

Thank you for the hints,
Sven

By: brett

brett — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:30:23 +0000

Glad you found the post helpful- link away!