Reconnecting a Master


Suppose you're cleaning house one day, rearranging your files and moving folders from one disk to another in an effort to be more organized. (Or perhaps you're simply procrastinating.) Without thinking, you move a folder full of images from one disk to a disk with a different name. When you return to your current Aperture project, you find that all of your links are broken, because you've moved the images out of the location where Aperture was looking for them.

Fortunately, using the Relocate Masters dialog, you can relink these files.

1.

In Aperture, select the Lesson08 First Import project.

Note that all of the images are listed as references. They are linked to master files on the CD that you just made.

2.

Eject the CD by pressing the Eject button in the upper right corner of the keyboard.

Aperture will update the reference badge on your images to indicate that the linked file is no longer available.

By ejecting the CD, you have broken the link to the file. You can still edit metadata and view a full-resolution preview, but you won't be able to perform any edits until you make the master files available again to Aperture.

3.

Quit Aperture.

4.

Create a new folder on the desktop called Lesson 8 Images.

5.

Reinsert the CD and copy its contents into the folder you just created.

6.

Eject the CD.

You have now moved all of the master images to a new location that Aperture doesn't know anything about. This is just the sort of thing we might do during "housekeeping," and it's the sort of maneuver that will break links in your Aperture Library. Let's fix those links.

1.

Open Aperture and select the Lesson08 First Import project.

As you can see, the links are still broken. (If they're not, then you didn't eject the CD. Do so now.)

2.

Select all of the images in the project.

3.

Choose File > Manage Referenced Files.

4.

If the reconnect options are not already visible, click the Show Reconnect Options button.

5.

In the lower dialog pane, navigate to the Lesson 8 Images folder that you created on your desktop.

6.

Click the name of an image in the File Path column in the upper pane.

7.

Find the corresponding image in the lower pane (in the folder that you created). In this case, we selected mg6016.jpg in both places.

8.

Click the Reconnect All button. Aperture will process the new links. When it's finished, click Done.

Now your project should show good links for all of your images.

Using Manage Referenced Files, you can easily move your master images and reconnect them if your image links get broken.




Apple Pro Training Series(c) Aperture 1.5
Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 1.5
ISBN: 0321496620
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 190

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