That’s great, but they are in “projects” not a library, and the projects were apparently auto-named with the same name plus a number. There are also images imported in the last year that went to organized folders in the finder, then imported to Aperture as referenced files. It would make sense to merge them and relocate the masters to one place. Nether is referenced…which I don’t understand. Each library’s image count is different, one is over 25K images, the other is just over 23K. If I select both libraries, Aperture shows quite a few duplicates, but not a many as I’d expect. Somehow I have two different imported iPhoto libraries that are not exactly identical. It’s running on my Master Photo Library folder and the Aperture library, found over 60K files in the count, and been running for 25 minutes, I’ll check it in the morning. Ran ok on the Pictures folder, but only saved me about 20meg. Pointed it at my documents folder, it crashed. I pointed Decloner at my home directory and it crashed. I tried Decloner, looks like it may help clear dupes, but didn’t find more than a couple gig in the original iPhoto library. The imported iPhoto libraries are apparently managed. Ugh. The library is referenced, masters outside of the library file. I understand the point of the metadata, but at this point, closing in on 50K images, it’s not going to happen for existing ones. The masters are almost all camera raw, there are a few. Not sure how adding more would fix much, unless I was running more apps. The available free memory hardly changed, if anything, it got bigger. I ran through a few functions like changing projects, libraries, etc. The actual figure shown in Activity Monitor was just under 400meg. I launched Aperture, the free memory got a little smaller…like a few hundred meg. I launched Activity monitor, watching the “free memory” pie chart/data. The memory idea was interesting, so here’s what I tried. Contact information should be priority number in terms of copyright protection, and you can do that en masse for the entire library all at once. Have you associated metadata with your photos? If not, you will want to spend time doing this as you have time to do so. You really want to make sure you clearly identify the absolute “master” for each image. You can create the JPG files again from the raw files if you need them. What format are your master files? Are they raw or JPG files? If they are raw and you have created other copies from them in JPG format, I would concentrate on getting all of the raw files into a consolidated Aperture library, then concentrate on organization of the library. You can always “relocate masters” later and move them out of the library if you prefer. Is your master library and “managed” or “referenced” library? By that I mean do you store the master files inside the library (“managed”) or outside the library (“referenced”)? In order to really clean things up, it might be worth storing them inside the library during the consolidation process. If your laptop can hold more than 8GB, max it out. I bumped it up to 8GB and it runs faster and much more smoothly. I had 4GB of RAM on a 2010 MBP and Aperture ran dog slow for some things.
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