I wish I hadn't imported Aperture library
I imported my Aperture library to C1 (about 110,000 images) but found many images were left behind such that I could never rely on C1 being the true source of all of my images. Instead I'm left with a bloated C1 catalogue which slows everything down enormously, especially when I have to go into the "All Images" section to delete unwanted images after new imports. I seem to spend most of my time staring at a spinning beachball. To try to solve the matter I decided to delete all of the images which came from Aperture and just use C1 for new imports. Unfortunately deleting a large number of images from the C1 catalogue is really, really slow and if I try to select and delete many at once, I could envisage the spinning beachball going around for days. It seems that if I select and delete abut 500 images at a time, then it takes about 15 minutes to move them to trash. It's going to be a laborious process to delete 100,000+ images, which makes me regret bringing them into C1 in the first place. I'm just sharing this for the benefit of other people heading down the same path.
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I had a similar iussue with Aperture. Here's what actually helped:
- Checked if actually all images that were on disk were actually loaded in Aperture (surprisingly, quite a few were not and of course then there is not import into CO)
- Did a complete rebuild of the Aperture database.
- Imported into CO1 using the Aperture import.
- Ran a script that straightened out the directory file names during the Aperture import (in the CO catalog it always started with /Macintosh HD/Users here a manually import would have resulted in the directory being only Users)
- Synced the imported tree again manually, this imported files that I still had missed when checking as described above.
- Checked for missing files, see .
- Most of the missing files were not imported as the meta data could not be read by CO. Used exiftool to fix it.
After this, everything as more or less fine. CO is currently building the previews (16 hours for roughly 45k images), which makes it really slow to use in the meantime.0 -
I think the C1-Aperture-Importer regularly has trouble with bigger Aperture libraries (that was my experience with just 27.000 images), so I would advise to split up the work into smaller import jobs. That may have lead to your troubles with missing images. Maybe throw the C1 catalog in the trash and start again using my approach (seperate your library into smaller ones and import them one by one).
After your import you simply have to wait until C1 has built all the previews. This is actually similar to starting a new library in Aperture. Back in the days then people also complained about Apertures' performance because they were not patient enough to wait for the preview database to be built completely before actually starting to work with it.0 -
@MikeA
Does opening this big catalog take that long for you too? I have converted a bigger Aperture library (have to look how many images) and it take minutes to open it - even if the catalog is on a SSD.0
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